Buckles Blog: Early Al G. Barnes (trainer unknown) #2

Monday, January 28, 2008

Scan000010787, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: Buckles;
This looks like the gal I mention earlier on the Vidbel show that had to pick up her own whips?; 28 January, 2008 22:29
Roger Smith said...: If anyone is still coming to this one (as of February 5), the lady is Margaret Ricardo. She first appears on the Barnes roster in 1917 with this act, altho others there had previously worked it with changes of animals. In 1918, she ocntinued this act and worked the 8 pumas. In 1919, she is billed working the riding lion-tiger hybrid, Sultana, and the 3 riding lions accompanied by Robert Thornton, but by then spelled her name as Marguerite Ricardo. The connection is not clear, but in 1920 Capt. Dutch Ricardo takes over the pumas.

Roger Smith; 05 February, 2008 18:40

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