Do those look like castrated males?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Wade - I'm no expert, but I believe the one on the far right is a female.
Jeannie
Jeannie,
That's very good. LOL
Wade
The trainer is the comely (?) Miss Adgie (Castillo) a well known lion tamer in the early part of the last century.
She had her lion act on Barnum & Bailey in 1915, the first big cat caged act ever seen on either that show or Ringling. Though it drew rave reviews, she was relegated to one of the end rings or stages, at least at the beginning of the season.
She seems to have presented her act most often at parks and in vaudeville.
At London’s Olympia she performed a sort of strip tease and dance in the cage with her lions. The London Standard ran a series of photos of this performance. As for her “stripping,” it was a case of removing her dress down to her pantaloons. That’s about all the Victorians could tolerate.
Adgie was still around as late as December 1927 for in that month she sent two lion cubs to the Flo Ziegfield family for his and his wife’s daughter, Patricia. Flo’s wife, Bille Burke, was a noted actress and the daughter of a famous circus clown named Billy Burke. She is most remembered for her role as Glinda, the good witch of the north, in the 1939 movie, The Wizard of OZ.
Richard,
Thanks for the info. Yes, "comely" is very questionable. The strip that was stopped in "mid strip", do you think it was because of Victorian morals, or did nobody want to see what was coming. LOL
I actually became a "modis operandi" for female beast masters of the late 80's and 90's.
Wade
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