Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Lancaster, Missouri #7


Military Elephants "Jenny", "Anna May" and "Tessie".
Jack Lorenzo and Bill Woodcock would appear At County Fairs with these elephants doing a "War Scene" concluded by firing the cannon and raising the American Flag..

Posted by Buckles at 1/08/2013 06:25:00 AM

3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Likewise was this your Anna May in

her early years

08 January, 2013 16:42
Buckles said...

No this is the Beatty Show Anna May in her early years.
Named after Anna May Wong.

08 January, 2013 16:55
Ole Whitey said...

Chic: Sidney, Anna May and another elephant named Mary were part of Beatty's payoff when the 1938 Cole show was unable to pay him money due.

They were then on his circus unit playing dates in 1939 and the early forties and then with his circus. Mary had died before McClosky and Kernan got the show but Sidney and Anna May lasted into the Acme years.

08 January, 2013 18:06

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