Saturday, January 30, 2010

Hagenbeck-Wallace out front #8


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Posted by Buckles at 1/30/2010 06:05:00 AM

2 comments:

Buckles said...

In 1935 the 4-Paw-Sells title was added.
The portraits are of Carl Hagenbeck, Ben Wallace, Adam Forepaugh, Peter Sells and Lewis Sells.
This proved to be the final year that Gumpertz sent the show out, it sat idle in Peru in 1936 but leased out for it's two final seasons 1937-38.

30 January, 2010 06:57
Anonymous said...

The familiar overlapping portrait trademark logo of the five Ringling brothers was dropped following Otto's death in March 1911. It was resurrected in 1936-1937, both in a poster and window card format, but with portraits of Barnum and Bailey added to them. Those seven "trumped" the five of 1935 HWFS. Perhaps the revival was inspired by the 1935 HWFS portraiture, which was also on a litho? It should be remembered that John Ringling was still alive during 1936, though totally out of control of the circus bearing his family name. Did Gumpertz revive the portraits to honor or rile John, since he may have viewed it as the ultimate dishonor to his four fallen comrades.

30 January, 2010 08:44

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