Thursday, October 05, 2006

Tom Mix Circus 1937 #5


TOM MIX........Featured Star
John R. Agee................Equestrian Director
Herman Nowlin...............Asst. Equestrian Director

James Arbaugh, Jessie Arbaugh, Lillian Arbuckle, Charles Arley, Bumpsey Anthony,
Eva Anthony, Bud Asher, Julia Asher, Erma Asher, Milded Asher, Arnt Augestad,
Gus Bell, Betty Bell, Joe Bowers, Lilly May Brown, Roy Brown, George Carl,
Danny Gordon, Helen Ford, Jimmy Davidson, Ray Goody, Max Gruber, George Hanneford,
Catherine Hanneford, Kay Hanneford, George E. Hanneford Jr., Thomas Hanneford,
Homer Hobson, Sr., John Hessick, Jack Knapp, "Kinko", Mary Kinko, Glen Kinko,
Anita Helms, Charles LaMont, Hank Linton, Ella Linton, Joy Myers, Lulu Nowlin,
Mabel Parker, Tommy Ross, Rex Rossi, Boots Sallee, Lotta Shaw, Frank Shepard,
Vic Smith, Dorothy Taylor, Karin Turney, Erma Ward, Doris Warren.

Posted by Buckles at 10/05/2006 11:59:00 PM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Eric:

John Agee later worked for Gene Autry, who apparently acquired some of Tom Mix's horses when he started making feature films. The "Champion" Autry used in his pre-World War II films was one of the horses who played "Tony" in Tom Mix's last film, THE MIRACLE RIDER. Also, the "Champion" that Autry used for his live performances was also used by Tom Mix for his live performances. No doubt Agee trained all of these. Both "Champions" appear in Autry's 1937 film YODELIN' KID FROM PINE RIDGE.

06 October, 2006 11:49
Anonymous said...

John Agee was the first equestrian director to follow Al Ringling and remained in that post for many years. He also was a great horse trainer and at one time at a young age, the world's champion bronk rider. If you see a guy in Royal M0ounted Police wardrobe, that's Agee. Al Ringling highly regarded him and I believe he was a pall bearer and in Al's will. He and John M. Kelly former RBBB lawyer took out fair unit FUN ON THE FARM FEATURING THE GREEN BULL FROM THE EMERALD ISLE and also the Brewery Horse liberty act later worked by Tom Mix.

06 October, 2006 12:52
Buckles said...

"Gentry Babe" was included with the sale of the Sam B. Dill Circus to Tom Mix and she stayed throughout the life of the show 1934-38.
Max Gruber and "Eva" were there 1936 thru 1938 but was only hired as an independent act.
Luke Anderson said his father sent him with a blank check to the aucion of the Mix Show (Tucson?) and he came back to Emporia with half the show, including "Babe". His father, Bud E. Anderson, then went up to Sheboygan and bought "Eva" from Mr. Gruber who spent a lot of time showing him how to work the many Vaudeville tricks she was trained to do. This included the tricycle, musical instruments, etc.
I've seen a Tom Mix film with "Eva" doing all this stuff, even beating an upright bass drum with her tail.

06 October, 2006 13:05
Anonymous said...

The Max Gruber act consisted of Eva, a zebra and a great dane and after Bud Anderson quit with his circus he played fairs with that act plus his eight black and white spotted liberty horses and himself all decked out in fancy cowboy wardrobe on a trick horse with a silver mounted saddle. He was by then divorced from Norman's mother and married to a woman who would later become Si Rueben's [his office mgrs.], wife.

06 October, 2006 15:26

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