 Cast and Company which doesn't differ all that much from the number carried with the Ken & Nicole Incredible Show today. Notation on the back claims that the tableau in the background was formerly with Yankee Robinson.  |
Monday, April 02, 2007
Mighty Haag Show on rails #6
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Richard Reynolds says - -
That tableau looks very much like one on John Robinson in the 1920s. Bradbury called it something like “Jardinier.” Somewhere I have a photo of it on Robinson but have not searched for it to compare the carvings etc.
So does that mean this is the GSOE, or that the Ken & Nicole Show is just a "Mighty" Show?
Not even that, it is now thought of as "The Incredible Shrinking Show"
Yes, this is the Jardinière, some of the carvings of which were given by Jess Adkins to the Miami County (Peru, Indiana) Museum, where they reside to this day (now across the street from the Court House).
This wagon apparently originated on the Pawnee Bill show, then to Haag. Was on the C A Wortham Shows at least one year and later to Mugivan and associates.
Was with John Robinson for years and supposedly ended its career with the 1929 Wallace show. Other possible sightings may have been on Wheeler Bros, Robinson's Famous, Gollmar Bros and Sells-Floto.
A young Mayme Ward is in this picture: in the center row between the two ladies in black, Mayme is the girl on the right. She was a member of the Hines-Kimball troupe at the time and had no good things to say about how the troupe's leader treated her!
Dick Flint
Baltimore
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