Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hubert Castle #3

PosHC3 by bucklesw1
PosHC3, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Received this montage from Dave Price.

Posted by Buckles at 11/13/2011 06:15:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't that poster on the far right
one of those that were interchangeably used for Mr Castle and Con Colleano ?

13 November, 2011 10:44
Ole Whitey said...

Con Colleano's name was crosslined over Hubert Castle's for a time but the poster was designed for Castle.

Cole Bros also had a Con Colleano poster, so I assume they crosslined these when they ran out of Colleano posters.

Or possibly while waiting for the Colleanos to be printed?

13 November, 2011 13:47
Anonymous said...

Hal Silvers started his career with Schell Bros. Circus in the 1920 era. I have documented photos of Hal on the show that were located in the archives of Bud Devere a nephew of George Engesser.
Bill Powell

13 November, 2011 14:58
Ole Whitey said...

I remember his talking about what a great show Barnes-Sells-Floto was and I assume he was over there at some point during the two years that combined title was used.

13 November, 2011 16:58
Roger Smith said...

OLE WHITEY: I have to put Hubert's time on AGB-SF as 1938, as he told me of knowing Mabel Stark over there, and she was at the Steel Pier and Benson's for 1937. Over that winter, in Baldwin Park, she broke 22 mixed lions and tigers for the combine. When RBB features joined out on July 11, in Redfield, South Dakota, some acts were cut due to the length of the show, among them Dolly Jacobs riding cats. But Mabel's big act remained. Hubert allowed that he and Mabel failed to form a friendship.

18 November, 2011 01:30

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