Same Stand, Different Angle
Another view of RBBB at Grant Park in
1930 from south of the menagerie; the Big Top is to your right. At left you can
see the old Howes Dragon float, still being used in spec. This little gem was
with the Howes show when it was bought by Bailey and associates, then on Barnum
& London, Barnum and Bailey and finally with RBBB. Sixty or more years on
the road.
From Buckles
"I have mentioned on the Blog several times about the spot in South Bend where in the 50's we would lay off with the elephants and within short walking distance was a train station where the South Shore Line dropped you right off at Soldier Field.
During that time I saw the Ringling Show several times but the most memorable year was 1955 when 52 elephants were under the combined command of Hugo Schmitt, Baptiste Schreiber, Smokey Jones.
Another time I was fortunate enough to catch a tour of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and saw the great Martyn Green in "HMS Pinafore" with "Trial by Jury" as a curtain raiser.
Doesn't get any better than that!"
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Saturday, August 08, 2015
From Dave Price
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2 comments:
Jimmy Aldred or Allred used to talk about how the Colonel was a Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado. I guess it was in the genes.
And another thing:
One year on the Beatty-Cole advance I roomed with Jack Gagne. Jack loved live "theatre" (as he spelled it) and time after time we would have just arrived in the town we were to bill the next day and he would already know about some stage play that the local college or little theatre group was doing. I got to see a lot of plays and musical productions that year, some of them very well done.
One Saturday afternoon we arrived in Racine and before we could check in the hotel Jack had decided that we should go by rail into Chicago, catch "Milk and Honey" with Molly Picon at the Shubert, stay over (we didn't have to work until Monday), go to Riverview Park the next day and catch a train back to Racine that evening. Oh, Jack also loved riding trains and amusement parks.
This may not compare with your D'Oyly Cartestory but it's the best I can do right now.
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