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Sorry She's not Ida but her daughter Frida
Claude,
I was correcting the error, apparently as you were making your comment. LOL I don't want folks to think we are both nuts.
Wade
Freida Krone Sembach presented their elephants for many years and obviously she did not have much authority over them, but it looked and sounded good. Interesting that so many owners over there like to present their animal acts, but still keep a trainer in residence. Some pro trainers who have been predominent are, Gindl, Vinicky-Smaha, Kossmayers and Houcks among a few others. Tanglefoot
Tanglefoot,
Good point, and I wanted to raise it in the past, but didn't want to agitate. LOL Glenn touched on it briefly in discussing the history of menageries when we were trying to work on a standard of "real pro." I feel it is much the same for the circus. Historically zoo's/menagerie's were owned by kings and monarchs in Europe. In America here the "royalty" was the rich like Hearst. J. Paul Getty had bear exhibits at his estate also. What do you suppose he knew about bears? The majority if not all of the kings in Europe and wealthy men in America had "managers" or "zoologists" who were in charge of the deal. America has not much tolerated a monarchy and Europe has grown weary of it also, because like the "monarchy money" here in America it has proven that just because you own something, doesn't mean you know anything about it. Even if you buy a Porsche, you can't drive it until you take a test, showing that you know how to drive it, and get a license. Same with planes, boats, or anything else. You are correct though in that historically a circus family owned and showed the animals, but more times then not had trainers on staff. One of many great differences between American and European circus. I think it all came down to money. Either they had more money then our owners, or the trainers worked cheaper, take your pick. I think most of it had to do with that nonsense of "we and our family are royalty and the peasant's want to see us." In America we didn't care who they wanted to see, as long as it was cheap and me made the nut.
Wade
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