Leone Bredbeck was on The Showboat on several occasions. We made some personal appearances together, fundraisers and things like that. I can't recall her exact routine but she would come on and play games, etc. She had a colorful wagon and kids would gather and she would have a puppet show as well. Leone was a very good talker and was very bubbley and always talking in a fast and high pitch voice. She was very likeable and everyone loved her. She was a very friendly person and it was always great to have her on the show. - Captain Ernie Mims

Showtime Pal, the happy-go-lucky clown played by Leone Bredbeck made guest appearances on The Showboat a few times a year and made kids become a star doing plays, etc at the local city parks. The city provided the trailer and she came up with scripts for kids to reenact a play or skit on a trailer. She co-founded the Davenport Junior Theater and was an icon in the community. - Jon Book - legendary WOC engineer

Show Time Pal, that important friend of the Davenport Children's Theater, was on hand at a tea to distribute season tickets to representatives of the Parent-Teacher Associations of Davenport Schools. Sale opens Tuesday, Sept. 23. From left to right, are Mrs. George Otte, representing Grant School; Mrs. Robert Francois, Lincoln School; Mrs. George Rathburn, Roosevelt School; and Mrs. Walter Bredbeck, Show Time Pal. 'SHOW TIME PAL' ASSURES SMOOTH PLAY PRODUCTION By Mildred Brennan, from the Quad City Times 09/22/1958 Show Time Pal has been busy. Season Tickets for the Davenport Children's Theater procustions for 1958-59 go on sale Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Sept. 23, 24, 25 at all the elementary schools. Last week at a tea at the home of Mary Fluhrer Nighswander, Show Time Pal was on hand to help distribute tickets to representatives of the PTA in the schools. They'll set up tables in the halls of the schools, in a conspicuous place where everyone can see it. They'll sell tickets for only 75 cents to all the boys and girls who do not want to miss out on the fun of the wonderful plays the Children's Theater will produce all year, ending in April.

FIVE PLAYS There will be five big plays and if a child is going to a single play, it will cost 25 cents. For 75 cents he can see all of them. The names of the plays read like a tour of Fairyland. They include "The Magic Ring," "Peter Pan," "Cinderella," "Taming of the Shrew," and "Land of Jesters." For added good measure Show Time Pal will be at all the plays. She is the children's friend who greets them when they bring their season ticket to the ticket-taker. She sits on the edge of the stage and offers helpful advice. In cold weather she reminds the children to take off their hats and coats. If parents attending have left the lights burning on their car, she has been known to include them in her helpfulness. Sometimes children climb up on the stage and sit on her lap to watch the show. Before the curtain goes up, she tells the children what the play is going to be about. Between acts, viewing what they have seen and speculating with them on what is going to happen. If the intermission is long and the theater-goers get restless and wriggly, she has a magic formula. She asks everyone to stand. Then she starts: "Hands on your hips, hands on your knees, Hands behind you, if you please. Touch your shoulders, touch your nose, Touch your ears, touch your toes. Raise hands high in the air, At your sides, at your hair. Raise them high as before and Clap them together - one, two, three, four." Its all a lot of fun and no child should miss. Parents will enjoy the good time, also. Plan to have 75 cents for a season ticket to the Children's Theater production. The sale opens Tuesday and continues through Wednesday and Thursday.

REMEMBER THIS ! VINTAGE MY SHOW TIME PAL BUTTON.

Showtime Pal, the happy-go-lucky clown played by Leone Bredbeck made guest appearances on The Showboat (CAPTAINS ERNIE'S SHOWBOAT WOC/KWQC) a few times a year in the 1960's & 1970's, and made kids become a star doing plays, etc at the local city parks. The city provided the trailer and she came up with scripts for kids to reenact a play or skit on a trailer. She co-founded the Davenport Junior Theater and was an icon in the community.

BUTTON IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH VIVID COLOR AND MEASURES ALMOST 2½" ACROSS.

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Thought lost to the ages, Jon Book presents the statue of Showtime Pal, now in disrepair, straight from the lost statue vault.

Above: clipping from the Quad City Times 07/12/1959

Show Time Pal from Davenport Junior Theater was a regular attraction at Fejervary Park in Davenport, Iowa. Leone Bredbeck played Show Time Pal, a clown who performed plays in front of children audiences. Special thanks to Bill Young for this terrific color picture of the Show Wagon. Note the drama mask on the side of the wagon. Show Time Pal would arrive on the scene and perform plays in which children in the audience would participate. This would encourage and expose children to acting and some would join Junior Theater. Show Time Pal not only set up at Fejervary but would arrive on the scene in neighborhood streets of Davenport, Iowa as well.

If you have any memorabilia, pictures or stories of Leone Bredbeck, Showtime Pal, please email me!