Late 60s show (impressive layout) in what was then the new Garden--note they were still using three rings and two stages (like the old tent and MSG days) for this date...don't know what they put on the stages as show was most likely booked for three rings only. |
Friday, August 06, 2010
From Jerry Digney #3
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Just a guess:
Hugo Schmidt, ring one with elephant, zebra (wasn't there a dog in here, too?)
Liberty ponies, center, in the middle of waltzing. Were these the ponies that Col. Herriott trained at Circus World?
Mixed Animals, ring three, Ethel Jennier.
I enlarged the photo to look at the particulars, but emphasis that I am still not 100 per cent sure.
Even after the Ringling Show discontinued this format under canvas it remained in the Garden for many years.
I remember the Colleano Troupe with Kelly Miller in 1951 who lived in New Jersey and mentioned that they often made the Garden date to fill in the stages. They commuted from home each night.
The Hanel Family casting act did the same. A good gig.
Charly Baumann trained these eight ponies and were presented by Diane Stephenson as I recall being told from various people. Before my Ringling days.
I believe it may even be Charly with the ponies and that is Jack Joyce Camel act. At that time presented by either Charly or Gina Moroski'.
When we played the Garden in 1978 we had two small, square platforms about 5 foot square squeezed in between the rings. Basically rope was coiled on them. As we didn't have these platforms at any other engagement, I asked the head usher about them. He informed me that they were stages built to satisfy the Stage Carpenters Union, a long-standing contractual requirement left over from the 1960's.
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