Greetings to Mr Robinson. I have just discovered your fascinating website. I am very impressed with your depth and breadth of knowledge. However, I hope you won't mind if I direct your attention to an error on your site.

You have a photograph of a Universal News newsreel cameraman holding up a lady midget; you have captioned this "Maybe Daisy Doll with Camera Man". Good guess, but the lady in the photo is not Daisy Doll. She is Daisy's younger sister Tiny Doll. I visited Tiny Doll at her home in Florida a few years before her death. Judging from her appearance in the photograph, I would guess that it was taken in the late 1940s or possibly the early '50s. Tiny Doll performed sporadically into the early 1960s. Daisy Doll was the beauty of the family, and also slightly taller than her sister Tiny.
 

You can see a photo of the Doll siblings, captioned to show which sister is which.
 

In this photo, Tiny is slightly taller than her brother Harry ... but she is also wearing a floor-length skirt, which conceals her high-heeled shoes. Actually, Tiny was at least an inch shorter than her brother.
 

I was a circus and sideshow performer myself -- in Britain and Australia, not the States -- so your website has brought back for me some happy memories. Also a few not quite so happy. Ah, well. Best wishes to you, and good luck with your website!
 

-- F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

Daisy Doll (whom I never met) was taller than Tiny; in fact, if Daisy had been just a couple of inches taller she would likely have been considered merely a very short woman rather than a midget. She often wore high heels, even while performing: an unusual choice for a midget, since -- in their performances -- they usually tried to look as small as possible.

-- F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

Information added 05-18 & 19-2008
 

First Photograph courtesy of Lynne Bell ©copyright 2007 all rights reserved

Second Photograph - Pitch Card of the Doll Family