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| In 1895 a small news mention stated that after a return engagement at Huber's Museum (in New York) Unzie was scheduled to begin a four year tour of the Continent. Just prior to this engagement another albino, Rob Roy, had been apppearing at Huber's. We next find him mentioned back at Huber's Museum in 1898 appearing alongside Bunce, the Pig Man and Francisco Lentini, the three-legged wonder. The Barnum and Bailey Circus toured Europe 1897 - 1902 but Rob Roy, the "Albino Disloca- tionist" worked that tour. Perhaps Unzie appeared at the 1900 Paris Expo but who knows? Nothing more is heard of him after 1898. Did he indeed go to Europe? Did he remain there after the tour was over? |
| "I never tip my hat to the ladies," Unzie used to say on the platform. "If I should, they'd think a bombshell had exploded." To prove his point he'd take off his hat - and his incredibly white hair would puff out and surround him like an enormous white cloud." - Fred. Drimmer in "Very Special People" |
| "The showman described him thus: His skin is blue like alabaster, his hair white like falling snow, the eyes pink, blue and gray change color with different light. His hair stands upright like an open umbrella and measures two meters in circumference - a most elegant feature. Parents of this Adonis are black bushmen in Australia." |
| WHO WAS UNZIE? |
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| "I am only 25 but when I have on my hat I have the appearance of being elderly." - Unzie, quoted in an 1895 news article |
| (above) 1889 / 1890 B&B London tour |
| "Unzie, the Australian marvel, will begin the final week of his engagement. He is an Australian Prince, and , though descended from black savages, is as white as a Caucasian." - New York Times ad for Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum, Oct 1895 |