Friday, April 17, 2009

Blue Show 1970 #37


Ringling 100-74, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

The Riding Saxons?

Posted by Buckles at 4/17/2009 05:56:00 AM

10 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

No, The Saxons were The Stephensons.

17 April, 2009 07:47
Frank Ferrante said...

Doesn't look like the Stephenson family. Probably one of the Slavic groups that doubled in teeterboards. ~frank

17 April, 2009 09:34
Chic Silber said...

You are correct Mike these

are the Stephensons

Chic

17 April, 2009 10:20
Frank Ferrante said...

I stand corrected. :)

17 April, 2009 18:42
Frank Ferrante said...

Wait a minute! Now you two have me really confused. I think Mike was saying that The Riding Saxons WERE The Stephensons, but that those pictured were NOT the Stephensons. And Chic is saying that those pictured WERE The Stephensons. Anyone else have a definitive thought on this one? ~frank

17 April, 2009 18:46
Jack Ryan said...

Frank,

The Stephenson riding act was called the Riding Saxons.

This photo is NOT of them. It is of a Eastern European troupe in another ring. It is NOT a photo of the Stephensons/Saxons.

Display #21 in the 100th Anniversary Edition reads: Ring One: The Kazimir. Ring Two: The Riding Saxons. Ring Three: The Magyars.

So the pic is either Kazimars or Magyars. I really don't recall which. But it ain't the Stephensons.

I was there -- wrote the program and supervised the photos. Hope that's definitive enough.

Jack

17 April, 2009 21:04
Chic Silber said...

I was agreeing that the names

were indeed correct but you

INDEED are absolutely right

In a quick glance I thought

I saw Diana & Alex but no

Could these have been from

the Slavovi troupe

Chic

17 April, 2009 21:30
Henry Schroer said...

The costumes look Hungarien, and the name Magyars means Hungarien.

18 April, 2009 02:41
henry edgar said...

i may be wrong in my memory, but i don't think the stephensons used pads in their riding act. it seems like they were one of the last troupes - or maybe the last - to perform without pads on ringling.

18 April, 2009 05:15
Frank Ferrante said...

I LOVE YOU, JACK! You cut through it all and you have a memory that I hope never fades! ~frank

(Like I said at the start of the blog, it didn't look like the Stephenson's - and I did know that they rode as the Riding Saxons.) Thanks, Jack! ~frank

19 April, 2009 21:49

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