Wednesday, February 04, 2009

RBBB Hugo Schmitt


HSchmitt, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"Hugo Schmitt in either 1948 or '49 in Madison Sq. Garden holding the elephants for the "leaps".
This was a "generally useful" number done by the acrobats.
When I saw the show in '48 the band played "The Storming of El Caney".
Doesn't get any better than that."

Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 2/04/2009 06:06:00 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was so happy to see this shot as RBBB was my very first circus when my Grandmother, who had fond recollections of Barnum & Bailey, took my cousins and me to the Garden beginning in 1948 and for many years thereafter.
Thanks

Paul G.

04 February, 2009 11:09
Anonymous said...

Hi Buckles,
This photo is from the 1948 stand at Madison Square Garden.
The act was the UGO Troupe. They were on Ringling in 1948,49 & 50.
Regards,
Dom Yodice

04 February, 2009 13:25
Anonymous said...

Hey Dom! That's all you can tell us? How about names, ages, height, weight, places of birth?
Just kidding, of course, you, Dick Flint, Richard Reynolds, our own beloved blogmeister and a select number of others never cease to amaze and educate me. Thanks!

Paul G

04 February, 2009 16:49
Dick Flint said...

Alright, Dom and Paul!!--there probably was no UGO troupe. No such troupe or person is listed in the 1948-50 route books that do list the people that composed each act. It sounds a bit artificial and might be the initials of several principal leapers or even an inside joke--when it was time for the act to go on, one guy in the dressing room said to the other, "you go." So Buckles is probably correct that its just kinkers being "generally useful."
Dick Flint
Baltimore

05 February, 2009 02:33
Anonymous said...

1958 Cristiani Bros. Circus we played a galop medley for the leaps. Starting with Sunshine Galop-Galop Go and one other. The act was billed as the Renaults. All of the family plus whoever else was on hand to be "generally useful".

Chuck Schlarbaum

05 February, 2009 09:18
Mike Naughton said...

Sunshine Galop can be heard on SOUNDS OF THE CIRCUS, South Shore Concert Band, Vol. 26.
Tepa Hall (Castle's Bears) is the Covergirl for this album. (Sidebar - now THIS is an act!)

Go Galop can be heard on SOUNDS OF THE CIRCUS, South Shore Concert Band, Vol. 15.
Tiger head photo on cover

For those bloggers that are up-to-speed with technology you can download these tunes on iTunes, 99 cents each, CHEAP! Entire albums available for downloading at discounted prices. With the savings you can write a check to the OABA Circus Fund; otherwise the only thing left of the circus WILL BE these recordings.

05 February, 2009 10:52
Anonymous said...

Richard & Paul,
Thanks for checking the route books. I couldn't find mine. However, the UGO Troupe was made up of one of the Cristiani act tumblers and several of the Bogino act tumblers. The man that is leaping over the five elephants is Ugo Bogino (hence the UGO TROUPE).
I checked Joe Bradbury's Ringling articles in White Tops for 1948,49 & 50 and he mentions the act and who was in it.
So all of our suspicions are correct.
Dom Yodice

05 February, 2009 14:34
Raffaele De Ritis said...

I think the leaper is possibly Ugo Bogino. Can anybody confirm that?.

05 February, 2009 17:17

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