Schlitzie
Shlitzie Surtees
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Emerging from an uncertain birth background, he entered the carnival world as a young child after being placed under the care of sideshow operators, where he was quickly groomed for exhibition. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he toured with major circuses such as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Clyde Beatty, and Tom Mix, billed under titles like “The Last of the Aztecs” and “The Monkey Girl,” a…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources