Wednesday, March 23, 2011

1938 Cole Bros. Program #6


Scan13350, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

This is Beatty-Cole "Anna May" for whom our elephant
was named.
Alonzo Dever was boss elephant man in '38 but this
isn't him.
My dad led her around in this act a few years later but I
think they only used the tiger "Rimba ?". He added that both
he and "Anna May" were thrashed with that buggy whip
regularly but being up so high, "Rimba" was the only safe one.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 3/23/2011 06:33:00 AM

4 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

I think this is Cap Bernardi. Wasn't the tiger Primba?

23 March, 2011 14:21
J C Hall said...

I recall this elephant and toured with her and another cow named Bessie. Frank Daily worked them on Sells and Gray in 1967.

23 March, 2011 20:42
Ole Whitey said...

That was probably the Bessie from the Norma D five

23 March, 2011 22:40
Roger Smith said...

Right, Primba was the tigress, whose co-star Simba the lion was retired due to the onset of blindness.

26 March, 2011 04:07

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