Thursday, June 22, 2006

Hagenbeck-Wallace Program 1931 #1


Display No. 1 A beautiful, spectacular, romantic Pageant. A colorful fantasy of the blossom scented Orient. A Kingdom where the magic romance weaves it's web of golden dreams, it's lure of love an beauty, song and dances of eternal youth will live on forever in the "GOLDEN ORIENT".
Written and Directed by Mr. Rex de Rosselli.
Roy de Lano, Announcer-----Harry MacFarlan, Equestrian Director------Eddie Woeckener, Musical Diector.

Display No. 2
Mr. Dewey Butler (dogs and ponies)-----Capt. Bernardi (polar bears in the arena)-----
Mr. Ed Davis (dogs, ponies and mules).

Display No. 3
Miss Alice Anderson (elephant and pony)-----------Miss Billie Burton (elephand and pony).
On the Hippodrome track the only mother and baby hippopotamus before the public.

Display No. 4
Miss Anna Butler (pony drill)------Mr. Bernardi (mixed jungle beasts in the arena)------
Miss Peggy King (pony drill).

Display No. 5
A mid-air melange. A coterie of fair performers on swinging aerial ladders.
Finishing with daring heel and toe drops and catches by Mr. Frank Shepard.

Posted by Buckles at 6/22/2006 06:15:00 AM

9 comments:

Bob Cline said...

GEEZ! After the first five displays, you saw more circus then than you do in most complete performances today.
I would like to order five more displays like they had, Thank you.
Bob

22 June, 2006 07:16
Anonymous said...

Yes, I agree...more show here than on the entire BLUE SHOW this year.

22 June, 2006 07:39
Anonymous said...

And the program book is free

22 June, 2006 09:05
Anonymous said...

Frank Shepard alone would be worth the price of admission - From what I have been told. Never had the pleasure of seeing him work but circus folk seem to agree that other single trap acts of the time were measured by his performance.

22 June, 2006 12:24
Anonymous said...

The arguement these days is that carrying a cage act is too mkuch work because of the time it takes to get it up and down. Hagenbeck-Wallace, Barnes etc had the right idea. Keep the arena up for half the show. I hate to go out on a limb, but listening to audiences I think they miss the cats as much as they would miss elephants

22 June, 2006 15:12
24-HOUR-MAN said...

I know I've told this story before but,,,, in Munich when people call for tickets for Krone's Winter show, they ask if there is a cage act, if there is none they say they will wait.

22 June, 2006 17:51
Anonymous said...

maybe the circus is going out of style???

pat cashin

22 June, 2006 18:35
Anonymous said...

Was that common to have liberty acts working the same time as a cage act? I worked a pony drill while the Lilli Kristenson's cage was coming down and the ponies took off and headed down the midway. Ah, the shame!

22 June, 2006 21:32
Anonymous said...

And the program was not shrink- wrapped shut, with no clue to what you might find inside for $15.

I feel like a concessions genius this morning (after RBBB last night, a cry for help in the memento dept.) -- but they did get a 7 tiger comedy into the late middle of the second half with a quick-set cage, and the largely first-timer crowd loved it.

Being able to put cage acts anywhere in the schedule makes me wonder why there weren't two, but at least they had a rewarding number of big animals and some powerful artistes scattered throughout. I feel like 300 kids a week must write them with suggestions, but hope survives.

Lotliza

23 June, 2006 11:30

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