Friday, November 12, 2010
Life Styles of the Rich and Famous--Sep 29, 1947, Life Magazine
You should be able to double click this picture. Boy do thing's change, while staying the same. I note with interest the comment on the right side, sent in to the "Letters to the Editor" by Fairfield Osborne, President of the New York Zoological Society(which housed a fabulous Head and Horn Museum at the Bronx Zoo, before going PC, and donating the entire collection to the Boone and Crockett Club) following the publishing of photo's of Memphis socialite, 14 year old Virginia Walton Brooks and her successful safari.
MGM Lion
In 1924, studio publicist Howard Dietz designed the "Leo The Lion" logo for Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Picture Corporation. He based it on the athletic team of his alma mater Columbia University, the Lions. When Goldwyn Pictures merged with Metro Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, the newly formed MGM retained the logo.
Since then, there have been five lions playing the role of "Leo The Lion". The first was Slats, who graced the openings of MGM's silent films from 1924 to 1928. The next lion, Jackie, was the first MGM lion whose roar was heard by the audience. Though the movies were silent, Jackie's famous growl-roar-growl sequence was played over the phonograph as the logo appeared on screen. He was also the first lion to appear in Technicolor in 1932.
The third lion and probably most famous was Tanner (though at the time Jackie was still used concurrently for MGM's black and white films). After a brief use of an unnamed (and very mane-y) fourth lion, MGM settled on Leo, which the studio has used since 1957.
Elephants
July 8, 2009
The jubilance at the Memphis Zoo following the Monday night birth of an African elephant calf was snatched away on Wednesday after the new baby was accidentally killed by its mother.
At about 10 a.m. Wednesday, the calf stumbled in the enclosure. As Asali tried to right the baby with her trunk, she used too much pressure and critically injured it with her tusk, said Chuck Brady, zoo president and CEO.
Zoo staffers immediately moved Asali away from the female calf, but the facility’s medical team, including an elephant expert brought in for the birth, was unable to save the calf, Brady said.
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This sounds an awful lot like an "alibi" to me. In an animal rights effort to "humanize" elephants, why is it so hard to accept that Asali may have just killed her calf? Why must everything be a "feel good rescue?" Homo Sapiens, male and female, have committed the same heinous crime for centuries, as far back as Gods supposed request to Abraham.(I'm not saying I agree, but I do understand...... Just kidding Adam, Eric, and Taylor. I love you very much.) For some reason, the animal rights activists feel a need to put animals on a much higher plane, then an abstract thinking/reasoning human being. You would think they would have enough fact's on their side, if they were indeed facts, to not have to fabricate fact's that suit their agenda. They have beat the post tramatic stress syndrome horse to death, so I suggest they mount up and ride the post partum depression horse for a while. If Asasi can attempt to "rescue" her baby, the Montecore can "rescue" Roy Horn. If that's the case, then animals trained for performances and raised in captivity, are just as well adjusted, sensitive, insightful, compassionate, reasoning as studied through binocular wild animals are. Which would suggest that there is nothing wrong with the keeping of animals in zoos and circus's, as it does not change who/what they are. I call peta. Either fold, or show me what's in your hand.
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George Wombwell and Travelling Menageries
There are several references to George Wombwell having premises in Commercial Road in London's East End. Indeed, Wombwell writes in his last will in testament being 'of Commercial Road'. It is not, however, known to have been documented exactly where Wombwell would have been based on that road.
The Commercial Road, started in 1803, runs from Whitechapel in the east and provided the main East/West thoroughfare from London to Tilbury.
There are various reports of animals including lions and tigers escaping from Wombwell's menagerie during its travels up and down the countryside of Britain. Some of these escapees went on to maim or even kill the local population before being captured and returned to their cages. At least this is what is reported many times over quite a long period. One such event, possibly during 1835, it is reported that Wombwell's menagerie was on the way to a fair when a lion and tigress escaped the keeper's clutches and went on an escapade that could only be compared with a scene from a Roman Gladiator movie. Under the headlines:
Fearful Accident Four Lives Lost is the following sub-line
''A Full and Particular Account of a most dreadful circumstance which happened on Tuesday the 18th February instant, in consequence of the escape, from Wombwell's Menagerie, of the celebrated Lion, Wallace, and a large Tigress, by which melancholy accident, Four Human Beings were destroyed!!!
The Glasgow Hippodrome
The Glasgow Hippodrome was built in 1897 at New City Road, Cowcaddens, under the supervision of E H Bostock, the proprietor of the adjoining zoo. The architect was Bertie Crewe. At various times in its existence it was used as a circus, zoo, variety theatre, skating rink, dance hall, menagerie, exhibition hall, cinema and barracks. In 1919 it was sold to the British Traction Motor Company, and became a garage.
Wombwell's Menagerie, Glasgow Green
E.H. Bostock the proprietor of the Scottish Zoo and Glasgow Hippodrome, who also owned other similar establishments throughout the country, and was the proprietor of Bostock & Wombwell's world renowned menagerie. In the spring of 1889 he purchased the original business from his mother, who was then anxious to retire, as his younger brother, Mr. F. C. Bostock, who was managing the business for her, had decided to try his fortune in America. From that time he travelled regularly with the menagerie until January, 1896, He left his travelling menagerie business in charge of his brother-in-law. His father twice took Wombwell's Menagerie to Windsor Castle, in 1847 and 1854, before her late Majesty Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, and all the Royal Suite. In August, 1908, Mr. Bostock was returned unopposed to Glasgow Town Council as representative of Cowcaddens Ward.
Glasgow Zoo--Dreams
Zoo bosses are looking to a revolutionary Dutch wildlife park for inspiration as a major new tourist attraction is planned for Glasgow.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland - the charity behind Edinburgh Zoo - hopes to create the £35million biosphere-style animal park on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow's East End.
Experts from RZSS have visited Burgers' Zoo in Holland, which has created a series of habitats to allow visitors to immerse themselves in the natural surroundings of creatures.
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What happened to Jackie's teeth?
30 March, 2010 09:44
It had to have been a problem with dentition. Koontz never removed anything from his animals. Proving this, he was badly bitten during the time when he had to admit his sight was failing. He continued working as best he could, when he was bitten again, with the fangs penetrating the same injuries from which Mel was recovering. That was it. He retired, but did so without once having any animal surgically altered, a trait of character that earned him lasting respect.
31 March, 2010 01:21