Sarasota 1947 #2

Scan000010998, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. "Kernaudi" and "Minyak" doing the handshake with Charlotte who later became Mrs. Harry Thomas as mentioned recently by Jackie LeClair. With the loss of "Sudan", Hugo quickly replaced her with the smaller African "Emily". Logan once told me that in the 1948 elephant display, all three trainers rode white horses into the rings ahead of their respective herds and after they came in line, grooms would lead the horses out. Later in the act during the "over he garden wall" sequence, "Emily" was brought in and she quickly went over a tub, sat up and then taken back to the menagerie.. As mentioned before, my mother and I saw the Ringling Show in 1948 and I don't recall any horses or African elephant so all that must have fallen by the wayside.