Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Frank Buck #2


As is well known, the show folded in mid-season (June 22) in Scranton, Pa. due to Union Labor problems and returned to Sarasota.
The caption under this photo in Life Magazine is: "COMPANY UNIONISTS were headed by Frank Buck, highly paid performer, who circulated a petition among those willing to accept the 25% cut but gave his giraffe full rations".
Being highly paid I'm sure he did.

A few weeks later a portion of the Ringling Show left Sarasota and was added to the Al G. Barnes Circus (also owned by Ringling) on July 11 ar Redfield, S.D. and this combination finished out the season as "AL G. BARNES AND SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS PRESENTS RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY STUPENDOUS NEW FEATURES".
Try saying that three times real fast.

Posted by Buckles at 3/29/2006 06:25:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Only last night, I was scanning my program for that show--the 1938 Barnes-Floto-RBBB. What a line-up they had. Imagine the logistics bringing all that together to finish out this disastrous season.

29 March, 2006 17:55
Buckles said...

Slivers Madison was on the Barnes Show that season and as the train approached Redfield he heard someone yell out "Look at the size of that tent!" unaware that they would finish out the season in the RBBB tent reduced to four center poles and already set up on the lot.
Appearantly only management knew what was happening and how they managed to keep it under wraps is amazing.
Ken & Nicole officials would be green with envy.

30 March, 2006 10:01
Anonymous said...

I think they should have kept "this one" under wraps, if you know what I mean!

30 March, 2006 17:09

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