Buckles Blog: 101 Ranch Elephants #1

Thursday, May 06, 2010

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Anonymous said...: What about Sidney Rink and the 101 Ranch herd?; 06 May, 2010 10:29
Dick Flint said...: Could anonymous tell us what he is suggesting about Sidney Rink (1856-1941) and the 101 herd? Rink was with John Robinson for 29 years and later with Al G. Barnes who had high regard for his training abilities.
By the 1920s he was playing the fair and vaudeville circuits with a highly regarded trained mule, probably worked as comedy. In at least one off season (1922-23) during his later years after he had started his mule act, he spent time training elephants and camels at the Christy winterquarters. Is anonymous suggesting this was the case with the 101 herd that had come with the purchase of Downie’s Walter L. Main show?

Buckles, what does the article say about Selma Zimmerman, if anything concrete, beyond that she worked at the Pittsburg railway station?

I have a 16mm film of this act taken on the Ranch show in 1927 that shows, as I recall, many minutes of the act. Might this be one of the earliest moving picture films of an elephant act beyond the multi-second Edison films?
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 06 May, 2010 16:04

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