Sunday, September 19, 2010

Elephant Poster #8


ht2000907_hires, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who was Irene Montgomery?

Buckles said...

Probably Irene Ledgett, well known Elephant Empress and wife of Equestrian Director Fred Ledgett.

Ole Whitey said...

I'm sure you're correct, Buckles. I see in a 1922 Robinson program that she worked an elephant act, rode manage and swung a ladder. Generally useful girl it would seem.

By the way this program also says that the management imported an African elephant last winter but it proved not to be a "fit subject" to take on the road- is this story true?