Friday, July 14, 2006

Bare chested animal trainers #5


This is the cover of a 1935 "Sawdust" magazine but I was unable to find a mention of the trainers name. Did see however, that the magazine sold for six pence at the time.

Posted by Buckles at 7/14/2006 06:30:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe that is the English trainer who called himself 'Togare'. Featured on Bertram Mills Circus on and off

14 July, 2006 08:36
Anonymous said...

Sorry, my bad - Togare was Italian - a pupil of Alfred Court

14 July, 2006 08:45
24-HOUR-MAN said...

This is Togare (Georg Kulovits) he was Karl Krone's protege', he debuted with Krone around 1921, with 8 Lions & 4 Tigers, and was there till 1928. This picture was probably taken with Circus Carmo, in England in 1929, wotking with 9 Lions. If my German was better I could be more definite. There are 7 pages on him in the book, "The High School of Wild Animal Trainers", by Hans Jurgen & Rosemarie Tiede.

14 July, 2006 08:47
Buckles said...

My mistake too, this was in the Jan.-Feb. issue of 1936.

14 July, 2006 08:51
24-HOUR-MAN said...

Togare was born, George Kulovits, on March 26, 1900, in Graz, Austria, the son of a Hungarian Blacksmith, his mother was Austrian. He originally worked on Krone under the name "Helios", The name "Togare" was given to him by Ida Krone in 1926. To correct myself this picture seems to be 1926 Circus Krone.

14 July, 2006 09:13

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