John Pawling Circus 1949 #1

The official title for this show was "John Pawling Great London Circus", it only existed for one season and as I recall, the owners name was Rumbaugh. The equipment looks very well painted and canvas in good shape. The show had a cat act as well as Rudy Mueller's elephant "Rosie", formerly of Billy Rose's "Jumbo". Tommy Bently was on the show and I remember him telling my dad later with Kelly-Miller that it was a pretty neat operation, the spec was well choreographed and the band leader had even written a March which Tommy sang for us: "There's something about a circus, something about a circus, something about a circus that is fine, fine, fine! Something about the music, something about magic, something about the uniforms that shine, shine, shine!". A catchy little ditty, odd what people will remember after all these years.