Monday, December 30, 2013

1935 RBBB Program #2

1 comments:

John Herriott said...

What an absolutely amazing program. Almost unbelievable but it did happen and even did a number of one day stands overnight. I might add that this was during the worst of the great Depression and Cole Bros. with Clyde Beatty and Cowboy movie star Ken Maynard, in a huge program plus a major circus parade daily.Also Hagenback-Wallace, Al.G. Barnes and Christy all major rail roaders and very sizeable overland shows like. Schell bros, seils sterling, Downie, Bud Anderson, Russel bros., among others. Obviously RBBB spared no expense in this power house show. Not the absense of cat cage acts as they had used Beatty only in Madison square garden and I believe Boston right prior to that time, but in 39 would feature Terrel Jacobs. And also the Shrine winter circuses were also big programs of great acts in major cities. Kind of sad when RBBB is kind of a glorified "one ringer".