tanglefoot said...
WE see that the Africans are note graduated in size in the line up. Obviously typical Africans in some sort of ideosycrasie. Can't spell it but it means Idiots.
"note graduated in size in the line up"
"note graduated in size in the line up"
To my friend in Europe, I am not sure, but all the above photos enlarge. Click on them and you will see what "note graduated in size in the line up" means. It means you put the biggest elephant in the front, with them progressively getting smaller towards the end, like in the above photos, I think. "Obviously typical Africans in some sort of ideosycrasie. Can't spell it but it means Idiots" means just what it say's, "typical Africans in some sort of ideosycrasie." Maybe that is the name of an act with 4 elephants and 4 horses?
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It looks like the horses have bareback pads on. I wonder if there are riders in the act as well. Must be a great act to see anyway. A nice change from the pedestal/spindle acts.
Does anyone remember back in the day when Asian elephants babies were $2,500, everyone said "You can't do anything with Africans, they are too unpredictable".
Did the lack of Asian babies make them smarter and more predictable? Just wondering.
Why is it that every time some picture is put up on this blog or the other one, showing something nice in Europe, some old timer will pop up and say "That ain't sh**, so and so did that on Ringling in the 40's", or try to find something to nit pick about the act. Isn't there enough to nit pick over here? Where are the Americans who are trying to do something out of the ordinary?
W.C.
From Websters:
Main Entry: id·i·o·syn·cra·sy
Pronunciation: \ˌi-dē-ə-ˈsiŋ-krə-sē\
Function: noun
1 a : a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality b : individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)
2 : characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament);
Has nothing to do with idiot at all
W.C.
You want a hoot? Type Casselly in the search box at the top left.
Wade
Mr Burck, I did the search, but I don't know what you mean about a hoot - what I see are some good looking animals doing some really nice (and different) acts. Different from what I've seen anyway. Also, some movie star beautiful women performers. Just from what the pictures show, they look like acts I would enjoy seeing. I haven't seen those type of acts in the circuses I've been to here.
W.C.
W.C.
Please call me Wade, not Mr. Burck. I meant for you to read some of the comments under the Casselly pictures from from long ago from "Tanglefoot" only he was johnny or johnny herriott then. It is the same people with the horses, and elephants.
Wade
Addendum to W. C.,
I just recalled he was also smiling john, now and again.
Wade
Which show is that with the African female and long curving tusks? The "M" sign in the back suggests Medrano.
Does anyone know the name of that animal?
I am not nit picking as to across the water observations. It just is obvious to and old timer like myself and I have no doubt that this family produces some fine animal acts and I applaud them. Now a case in point. The American Esize and it was a marked imprvement aa d weidaman elephants went over the years from one to finally three and Ed a novice elephant person aDDED THEM TO THE LINE UP ahereby the largest was no. 3 and it looked odd. So the elephants were sold to Hubert Castle and taken over by elephant trainer Bert Pettus and he immediately re-routined them with puttingthe proper line up in size and it was an immediate improvement and gave the group excellent credentials from being just a very nondescript elephant act. Also two of the elephants were difficult to handle with one being very dangerous, but Bert did a great job and handled them effectively for quite a few seasons and were eventually the Tarzan Zerbini elephants. So, please believe that I do not nit pick either here or abroad but only state what I see. I believe these elephants and horse combination would be just a little more effective, in my mind, if they were graduated in size. I took over a 12 horse4 liberty on Ringling and after the horses matuired in age the last two in the line up were much bigger than the others and it bothered me, but in the corporate world of Ringling I had to live with it. When I put together an act of six young elephants for Hoxie Bros. Two africans, maLE AND FEMALE I would have loved to put the male [with ivory] in the lead, but in the short time I had he was not a candidate for a lead elephant so I had to just incorporate him as No. four. Didn't make much difference, except how nice the group would have lofront oked with him out in front. So be it
For folks trying to follow along the last comment is from Col. Herriott, John Milton Herriott, johnny, or tanglefoot.
I note the the horse are two abreast with an elephant of similar size. Neat piece of business, I think.
Wade
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