tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62252305306089075772024-03-05T20:47:29.192-08:00Jamie Clubb - author of "The Legend of Salt and Sauce""The Legend of Salt and Sauce: The Amazing Story of Britain's Most Famous Elephants" book is now available from aardvark.circuspubs@btinternet.comPhilip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-10621971492045715312018-11-09T08:45:00.001-08:002018-11-09T08:45:09.110-08:00Anniversary Edition of "The Legend of Salt and Sauce" is now Available!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am delighted to announce the re-publication of "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". This book was first published 10 years ago. This month is actually the anniversary of the second edition. It is also the 250th anniversary of the circus. The edition is currently an e-book, a format it has never been before. If over 200 copies are sold my publisher has agreed to create a print version.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-99593876007434622017-06-22T08:24:00.000-07:002017-06-22T08:24:34.646-07:00Memories of Clacton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My memories of Clacton in 1982 are a hazy mixture of imagination, Spider-Man, Superman and Batman costumes, the smell of jacket potatos mixed with the salty air, a huge amount of freedom that would shock today's helicoptor parents, a videogame arcade, fairground rides, Dracula ice lollies, adventures around a caravan site, losing at least one milk tooth and many, many other things that concern a five year old turning six. I was a circus kid and our circus had stopped touring. <br />
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Around me raged drama, anxiety, laughter, conflict and all the trappings of the great traditional circus in its last valiant death throes; spectucular live performances juxtaposed against a world set for change but not quite there yet. My father's dreams and my mother's nostalgia.<br />
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We were working in buidings now, like our cultural ancestors in the
Victorian era. Back then temporary circus buildings were replaced by
permanent structures like the Hippodrome in anticipation of ever-growing
circuses. Now we had swapped in our canvas to work in ice rinks,
theatres and pavillion buildings. We arrived just two years into the
pier being bought by a consortium of businessmen who sought to bring
back the dolpinarium and renovate the old Jolly Roger building. Apparently this would be the last performance given at the building. Now,
in 2017, the old structure is about to host a circus again.<br />
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My father recently discussed our time at Clacton. Here are his words: <br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We were approached by the owners of Clacton Pier, who I think at
that time were a consortium of four people –</span> <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Francis (Franie)
McGinty, John Treadwell, Denis McGinty and David Howe. We worked in a building
at the end of the pier called The Jolly Roger. It was completely open-span
inside with a reasonable height, but in very poor condition. We arranged to
clad the outside of the building with specially made red and white plastic
wallings,. Tom Fossett (Professor Grimble) was our company manager at that time
and also headed the advance team at Clacton. He arranged the refurbishment of
the building. We installed the seating from the tenting show and used our own
coconut mat for the ring surface. This mat was my own design with liberty horse
imprinted in the centre. We seated about 800 people when completely full. We
gave 3 x 1 hour performances during the day and 1 x 2 hour performance at 7:30.
The daily shows were included in the admission charge to the pier, but they
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That year they had a brand new rollercoaster installed on the
right hand side, as you entered the pier, which was a big attraction. They also
had 2 x killer whales, sea lions, penguins etc. in what was the old swimming
pool. They gave performances with the sea lions and killer whales throughout
the day as well. Most of the attractions were at the front of the pier and
sometimes it was difficult to get the crowds to the end to see the circus. They
asked me if we could have an outside attraction, working periodically before
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We arranged for a Swedish fakir, Mr Swing, to work on the stage
that had been erected at the front of the circus. He definitely attracted the
crowds. He would start off doing a straightforward fire-eating act, which
wasn’t very successful due to the wind. He then went on to walk on broken glass,
which was an improvement. This was followed by the real fakir act, sticking
daggers through his arms, legs and face. The people in the audience used to
feint. It was definitely a great attraction and succeeded in getting people
into the circus. He regularly had accidents and often had blood poisoning. We
had an American ringmaster, Jim Royal, who I brought over especially for
Clacton. He had worked in American carnivals and was great at spieling on the
front. He made a big point in telling the gathered crowds that Mr Swing had an
accident at one show and was taken to the local hospital. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We had a very strong show that year with plenty of animals.
Lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, black panthers, pumas – three cage acts in
total that alternated throughout the day. We also had our elephant, Arab
liberty horses, Shetland ponies, exotic act with camel, llamas, zebras and
cattle, and a dog/monkey act presented by Sally. We also had Gina Giovani,
which was an outstanding hand-balancing act, and then she then did a low-wire
act with her sister. There was a hair hanging act, Irma Tabak, and her family
did a Russian bar act, which was in the Guinness Book of Records. We had a
Romanian perch-pole act, which was world class. Professor Grimble did one long
entrée and his son, Tom Tom, did a juggling act. Jimmy Scott did the clown
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When I think of it, I don’t know how we did it all. We took the
animal wagons down the pier and I remember the floorboards creaking.</span> <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Keeping
the animals at the end of the pier was extremely difficult and unthinkable
today. All the artists lived at a caravan site out of town, and commuted in.
The animal grooms and Jimmy Scott lived at the end of the pier. On a rough evening
the waves used to come over the top of the building and through the
floorboards. I can remember waiting to go in with the elephant and almost got
soaked. That part was quite an experience that I don’t think I would want
to go through again. We did negotiate to go back the following year with a
smaller show, but it didn’t happen. In hindsight the evening show was a waste
of time and the hour shows were too long, even though they were all different.
We should have just done 45 minute shows, 3 or 4 times during the day.
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-27775790308203236522014-09-25T04:07:00.002-07:002014-09-25T04:07:42.039-07:00Salt and Sauce in London? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My attention was recently brought to the website of the long established and renowned <a href="http://www.circushistory.org/Query.htm#SEARCH">Circus History Society in the USA. </a>A message had been posted up their message enquiring after the identities and verification of two elephants who temporally lived in London. <br />
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4417. <b>Elephants <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="World War II">WWII</a></b>, 22 Sep 2014 - I know this might sound
ridiculous, but I believe it to be true. I am not sure whether it was
during the war or just after. I was child then, but two circus elephants
were housed in garages in Hendon Park Row, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Fortune" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Temple Fortune">Temple Fortune</a>, London NW11.
Our flat overlooked the garages and I do remember this - once I even
knew the names of the elephants! People don't believe me though and I
would like to authentic this. I think they were from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Smart%2C_Jr." rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Billy Smart, Jr.">Billy Smart's
Circus</a>, but I could be wrong. I guess circus animals were housed
somewhere safe during the war, although bombs dropped nearby because of
the proximity of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendon_Aerodrome" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hendon Aerodrome">Hendon Aerodrome</a>. Would anyone have a record of circus
animals' whereabouts at that time? I hope you can help, kind regards,
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However, it is quite possible that Salt and Sauce resided in a garage during a London theatre booking around the Christmas season. I will have to check my notes, but I am not aware of another duo of elephants touring the UK at that time. If this is the case then we have another interesting anecdote that adds to the history of these two remarkable pachyderms. <br />
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One of the many mysteries that I encountered when I began my research into the story of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a> the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Elephant">elephants</a> was the nature of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Disease">disease</a> that infected their original group. Now a recently published article in volume 17, issue 3 of the journal, <a href="http://www.veterinaryhistorysociety.org.uk/">"Veterinary History"</a>, might shed some light on this subject. <br />
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In 1902 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Lockhart" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="George William Lockhart">George Lockhart</a> Snr took delivery of four female elephants, which he gave the eccentric names, Salt, Pepper, Sauce and Mustard - Lockhart's Cruet. Within a short time of their arrival it became clear that Mustard was unwell. She was exhibiting symptoms that used to be referred to as "<a href="http://www.webmd.boots.com/heart-disease/guide/oedema">dropsy</a>". This condition consists of large fluid-filled swellings on the external parts of the body. George's son reported that a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_surgery" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Veterinary surgery">veterinary surgeon</a> was called in who recommended lancing the swellings, but this was unsuccessful. Mustard died of her symptoms and was replaced by a new elephant, Vinegar, a second Mustard. Then the mysterious disease claimed Pepper. Salt also became infected. In desperation George contacted <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5355555556,-0.155833333333&spn=0.01,0.01&q=51.5355555556,-0.155833333333%20(London%20Zoo)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="London Zoo">London Zoo</a> who advised on a cure, which saved Salt and the rest of group.<br />
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My 2008 book, "The Legend of Salt and Sauce", I put forward that we did not determine the exact disease that had infected The Cruet or the cure advised by London Zoo. However, through consultations with International Zoo Veterinary Group and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_medicine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Veterinary medicine">veterinary</a> literature on treating elephants published in the early part of the 20th century we found a likely in the form of parasitic flatworms. Several elephants imported from India over the turn of the century were found to be infected by these worms, which they had probably picked up from the swamps and passed onto each other. We cited a case, where such worms had wiped out a group of elephants owned by Sanger's elephants in the 1870s. I understood and noted that one of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Nematode">nematode worms</a> newly discovered after an elephant's post mortem was named <i>Dochmisu Sangeri</i>. <br />
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This new article, "The Elephant Memorial to Two Notable Veterinary Surgeons" by Bruce Vivash Jones, begins with mystery of "an obviously elderly skeleton of a young Indian elephant (<i>Elephas indicus</i>)". The origin of the skeleton was unknown to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.541,-0.1433&spn=0.1,0.1&q=51.541,-0.1433%20(Camden%20Town)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Camden Town">Camden Town</a> Campus of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Veterinary_College" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Royal Veterinary College">Royal Veterinary College</a>, where it had resided since before anyone living who worked there could remember. It had just always been there. Jones suggests that it was one of Sanger's ill-fated elephants. This he took from the unpublished manuscript of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_general" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Major general">Major-General</a> Frederick Smith, an army veterinary surgeon. <br />
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Smith was brought in to examine Sanger's elephants. When one died he performed a post mortem and declared cause of death as "parasitic invasion of the stomach". Smith and his mentor and fellow army veterinary surgeon, John Henry Steel, undertook all the subsequent post mortems of the unfortunate herd. Smith remarked that he and Steel "set up several anatomical specimens for the Museum of the Royal Veterinary College, including that of a complete skeleton". Jones puts it that Smith is describing the Camden Town elephant skeleton.<br />
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The article describes how the remarkable investigation by these two two surgeons into the circus elephants was a breakthrough in veterinary research. Smith collected all the stomach parasites found and submitted them to Dr T. Spencer Cobbold. Cobbold was surprised to see that so little research had been done into internal parasites that affected <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_elephant" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Indian elephant">Indian elephants</a> given how important these animals were to their native country's economy. He wrote in his paper, "The Parasites of Elephants", that up until 1869 only four elephant stomach parasites had been identified. After Smith's submission, he could identify 12 different species that had been found in Indian elephants. Incidentally Smith, "at the age of nineteen years and only six months after graduating", joined Sanger in also having a nematode named after him, <i>Filari Smithi. </i>The article goes on to explain that both Smith and Steel went on to become eminent veterinary surgeons. However, yet again, we see that circus is intrinsically connected to important developments in our society. <br />
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I appreciate I am very late in here, but I was going through my archive emails and noticed this interesting piece of history. When I began collating my various pieces of research together and got down to writing my book, "The Legend of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>", I was immediately struck by how linked my story was to the history of domesticated elephants. Salt and Sauce were part of George Lockhart Snr's second group of elephants. Both he and his younger brothers (Sam and Harry) had established their reputations as elephant trainers, and the world of the turn of 20th century was abuzz with elephant acts. The methods being employed to create these performances had their roots tied up in the domestication of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_elephant" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Asian elephant">Asian elephants</a>. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_elephant" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="African elephant">African elephants</a> were trained too and would also become popular much later in the 20th century, but at the time they did not have good a reputation for domestication.<br />
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By the time they were used in music hall, vaudeville and circus, Asian elephants already had over 1,500 years history in domestication, leading back to the logging culture of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Indus River">Indus Valley</a> and a time when they were employed as war elephants. African elephants had also been used in this manner. During the huge saga of wars that occurred following the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Death of Alexander the Great">death of Alexander the Great</a> there is the only recorded incident of Asian elephants being pitted against their African counterparts. This battle - the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raphia" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Battle of Raphia">Battle of Raphia</a> between <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV</a>, the King of Egypt, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III the Great</a>, the King of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid kingdom</a> - recorded by Greek historian, Polybius, where Antiochus's Asian elephants outmatched their curiously smaller counterparts in Ptolemy's army apparently led to Asian elephants being called <i>Elephas maximus</i>. This fascinating account by (e)science explains how <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="DNA profiling">DNA evidence</a> revealed what species of African elephants were used at this fateful battle. <br />
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Circus Mania” is a much needed dispassionately written book on the British circus scene. In order for this institution to survive, thrive and regain mainstream respectability in the media it needs journalistic appraisal, insight and critique. The author, theatrical journalist Douglas McPherson, explains in his introduction that he had only a “fragmentary” memory of his time watching the circus as a child. After that he had no connection with the circus whatsoever, admitting to the common middle-class prejudice of believing that circuses were bygone vestiges of animal abuse. Therefore, when “The Stage” newspaper asked him to review The Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus’s 100th anniversary show, he came to the current British circus scene with fresh eyes. It was here where he met and interviewed the lovely Eva Garcia who would fall to her death at the very beginning of her cloud swing act just one day after his review was published. His experience at the show and meeting those who worked there inspired him to further investigate the British circus scene. McPherson had noticed that beside the behemoth institution that is <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cirque du Soleil">Cirque du Soleil</a>, it was rare for the performing arts world to take any notice of this very British showbusiness institution outside of the negative publicity targeted at animal circuses by their protesters. <br />
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<a name='more'></a><br />McPherson’s book combines historical research on circus with interviews with circus owners and artists as well as his own reviews of their shows. Each chapter centres on one particular show or institution, covering the aforementioned Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus, The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Circus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Great British Circus">Great British Circus</a>, Circus Mondeo, Circ Panic, The Circus of Horrors, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_Space" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Circus Space">The Circus Space</a> circus school, Zippos Circus and the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Television program">TV show</a> “The Big Top”, Circus Hilarious, The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_State_Circus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chinese State Circus">Chinese State Circus</a>, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque de Glace, the recollections of George Pinder Snr and Gerry Cottle’s Wookie Hole circus school. The narrative running through the book links the chapters smoothly, taking the reader on a journey through McPherson’s own education in circus history and culture. His own life comes into play, but only with regards to the way he and his wife reacted to the various shows. The writing never strays from its focus, and McPherson compares and contrasts styles of circus he has seen whilst reflecting on circus history. <br /><br />
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<br />Unlike the author, I certainly don’t come to this sort of material with fresh eyes. My earliest recollections are living in a wagon with the smells of diesel, sawdust, candy floss and animals taking turns in my infantile nostrils. My mother comes from an unbroken three centuries old circus family. My family were performing circus acts a century before the modern circus ring was created. My father ran away to join the circus, and my parents set up their own circus for six years. So, as you can imagine, I know most of the people McPherson interviews and reviews. It is always interesting to hear from an outsider’s perspective and to find out new things about people you have known all your life. I also discovered new pieces of information on circus history, particularly its early days in Britain. <br /><br />McPherson’s reviewing style is very fair in most respects. Grasping how wildly different circus has become, everything is kept in context, accounting for budgets and target audience. He is not afraid to call the world’s largest and most successful Cirque du Soleil on its pretentiousness and the pretentiousness of many other “new circus” or “cirque” outfits, such as the immersive <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofit_State_Circus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Nofit State Circus">NoFit State Circus</a>. Yet he shows a complete understanding of its artistic bent praises its strong points and how these points shown to be truly innovative in the circus/ice skating hybrid that is Cirque de Glace. His interviewees are candid in their criticism of the old and the new in the circus world. <br /><br />The book has its errors. . For example, the real name for the Paulo family is Butcher and not Thompson. Given the tangled web of circus families and apocryphal tales, I am very surprised he got away with so few. He was lucky that one of his interviewees was George Pinder, a member of the circus world who is passionate about his own circus family history and I was delighted to see an entire chapter dedicated to him.<br /><br />I am curious about his distinction between circus palari and theatrical/gay polari. Palari is the slang of circus people with related equivalents in the showman (fairground) and gypsy cultures. It was always my understanding that the slang was brought into the theatres by circus people and then adopted by the then illegal gay community as a code language. Although noticing similarities between the two, McPherson contends they are two separate slang languages. <br /><br />I also found that although, on the whole, I agreed with the author’s opinion on circus, he didn’t completely shake off <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a> influence. He didn’t like the way horses bow in circus acts, which is actually a very commonplace behaviour that runs across horse training outside of circus. In the same chapter he criticized the elephant pyramid, arguing that such a trick need not be performed, as the presence of the elephants was enough. Neither trick is a cruel behaviour. Elephants have been recently pictured in the wild standing on their hind legs to access high branches and the positioning is very similar to mating. If it is an exploitation argument then we are really into a deep philosophical question outside of animal welfare and in the murky realm of animal rights. If a trick isn’t proven to be harmful to an animal under scientific conditions then why should it be pulled? This is a debate for another day, but I am interested to see it being present in McPherson’s opinion when he shows a lot of self-awareness regarding the middle class seduction by animal rights ideals. <br /><br />Sadly Gifford’s Circus is missing from the book. They would have fitted perfectly into the mix, representing perhaps the newest face of circus, something referred to as “Heritage Circus”. I would have loved to have heard the author’s view on this particular brand of circus, which turns its eye back to traditional circus with a theatrical eye and fresh imaginative perspective. Maybe, if this book receives the response it deserves, the author will consider writing a further review on their circus and their respective clientèle. <br /><br />The author and his publisher clearly couldn’t resist going with the traditional circus archetype in its design and it is wonderfully creative. When it comes to books, I am an anti-minimalist and circus rarely fits into a modernist art mode. Circus is always big, glitzy, loud and varied. This is reflected well in Nick Pearson’s design work and Douglas McPherson’s vision for the overall presentation. True to his personal persuasions, there is nothing stuffy about the way the book is put together. The fonts to the chapters and front cover are of the typical clichéd circus poster style. The front cover displays an image from the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus with a curious very small insert of “Doc” (John) Haze at the bottom and the back has an image from the Circus of Horrors. This is a very clear intended juxtaposition of the different styles of British circus. The beginning of the book is set out like a traditional circus programme with the contents page titled as “The Programme”. McPherson is cast as “Your Ringmaster” and the index of names at the back are headed “The Cast”. Each chapter has a small introduction line to explain the subject matter and presented as a sales blurb. It made it all feel very episodic and kept my interest even when I was tired or not reading in the best of conditions. <br /><br />The world of circus needs books like “Circus Mania”. I would say it is the most important insight into British circus since Nell Stroud’s “Josser”. Nell, who is now co-owner of Gifford’s Circus, touched upon the problems with modern circus journalism, which was often either shamelessly partisan or written from the views of those with a personal agenda against traditional circus. However, Nell’s beautiful book only provided a view from an outsider living on British shows. McPherson’s work, written over a decade later, compliments this with the other side. He is the much needed objective, academic reviewer that can bring the world of circus outside of “Cirque” and “New Circus” to a wider audience again. <br /><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-64869334482982868372014-07-14T07:26:00.003-07:002014-07-14T07:26:54.288-07:00The Legend of Salt and Sauce Third Edition!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hope this post isn't premature, but I have finally got round to looking into producing the third edition of "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". At this present time I am going back through my research and contacting the various people who helped my father and I in the development of the book. If anyone reading this blog can assist, please do not hesitate in emailing me. I hope to include new contemporary illustrations and photographs of the various elephants mentioned in the book as well various writing revisions and hopefully some new information. This time I wish the book to be available in electronic format as well as printed form, allowing it to stay print. <br />
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Recently I was delighted to finally see <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.damelauraknight.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Laura Knight">Dame Laura Knight</a>'s <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Etching">etching</a> of Salt and Sauce, entitled <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Saucy</a> at Islington Hall</i>. The picture is documented in my book, <i>The Legend of Salt and Sauce,</i> but this is the first time I have seen the actual etching. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only piece of art based on or inspired by Salt and Sauce besides the various writings that mention them (<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Croft-Cooke" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Rupert Croft-Cooke">Rupert Croft-Cooke</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Lockhart" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="George William Lockhart">George Lockhart</a> Jnr, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Manning-Sanders" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ruth Manning-Sanders">Ruth Manning-Sanders</a> and <span class="st">Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake). </span><br />
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<span class="st">The etching was created in 1922 at the Islington Agricultural Hall. This was a venue managed by John "Broncho Bill" Swallow who would have just taken ownership of Salt and Sauce from "Captain Joe" Herbert Taylor. Taylor had owned and presented the elephants since Sauce had crushed their previous owner to death during an accident at Walthamstow Goodsyard in 1904. Swallow presented them at the Christmas show at that year and annually for years to come. </span><br />
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<span class="st">Dame Laura Knight (</span><span class="st"><span class="st"> August 1877 – 7 July 1970)</span> was an artist in the realist and impressionist mould, supposedly taking paintings out of the romantic era, although I would argue a lot of her fantastically complex oil paintings of circus certainly hark back to that style. Knight had a very lengthy career and was fascinated by marginalized communities, particularly the world of circus. She was a founding member of the Circus Fans Association of Great Britain (now the Circus Friends Association). According to Rosie Broadley in her 2013 book <i>Laura Knight Portraits, </i>Knight's success in the then male-dominated <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_world" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Art world">art world</a> helped open the doors for future female artists. </span><br />
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<span class="st">Her interest in the circus is reflective of the time. Knight was just as famed for the oils, watercolours, etchings, drypoint and engravings she did of the theatre and ballet scene. Her paintings of circuses, particularly during the time of Betram Mills, demonstrates the blurred lines of high and low art. Her works seldom come across as patronizing or gritty despite embracing realism, avoiding these common clichés used by observers of the circus world.</span><br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="History">History</a> is often referred to as the tapestry of life. It is a romantic notion and conjures up our intuitive linear way of viewing things. Our stories, we are instructed, must have a beginning, a middle and an end. Unfortunately no one told these rules to the God of Chaos who seems to spawn a type of tangled tree or weaves the confused web of a spider on acid. This is the way history can unfold when you <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Research">research</a> people and events. Certainly this was the case when I researched "The Legend of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>". I also indulged in recording the life stories of many of the individuals that were connected to these two famous elephants, as I felt it demonstrated just how many extraordinary lives were entwined. This blog have deviated into a variety of subjects often, but not always related to historical circus and their animals. As a result I am delighted when I discover various historians - from academic scholars to amateur genealogists - use this blog for their research.<br />
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One such case connected <a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/dick-chipperfield-jnr-last-man-to-work.html">this post regarding the history of the "bounce" </a>, which evolved into the article <a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/my-kingpole-article.html">"The Bounce: Revisited"</a> with Stanley Kubrick's magnificent adaptation of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>'s "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="2001: A Space Odyssey (film)">2001: A Space Odyssey</a>". The bounce article referenced Terry Duggan, a wild animal trainer who worked with my two great uncles and my grandfather when they ran "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipperfield%27s_Circus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chipperfield's Circus">Chipperfield's Circus</a>". I am not directly related to the Duggans, but we share cousins and they have been connected to my family for a very long time now. Terry and my great-uncle, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Chipperfield" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jimmy Chipperfield">Jimmy Chipperfield</a>, were involved with the prologue sequence of Kubrick's film, where a leopard attacks a member of a tribe of australopiths. I was contacted by the writer for a site dedicated to researching the history of this particular film. We continue discuss the sequence, as my father and I are in regular contact with people from the Chipperfield family (my relations) who were around when the sequence was being set up and filmed. This is the current article on the subject: <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-30085205420109577212013-08-13T10:01:00.001-07:002013-08-13T10:03:07.226-07:00The Legacy Endures...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was always a delight when I discover an another angle on the history covered in my book, <i>The Legend of Salt and Sauce</i>. Of course, my story is not just the story of these two elephants. It is also the story of the people who worked with them and, in this instance, the other elephants connected to them. The first part of my book tells the life story of the elephant trainer, George William Lockhart. Lockhart would meet his untimely demise at Whalthamstow Goods Yard when Sauce accidentally crushed him to death. However, before he even owned Salt, Sauce, Mustard, Pepper, Vinegar and Mustard II, he had a trio of elephants that brought him fame and renown all over Europe, in Russia and in America. These were Boney, Molly and Waddy.<br />
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Of the three, Boney was the most famous and the first elephant George trained. She came from Borneo and George named her after this island, later altering it to "Boney" (pronounced Bonnie). Boney did all the main tricks in the act, including riding a giant velocipede, and also worked alone. She was far smaller than her two fellow elephants, Molly and Waddy, and it was later believed that the Lockhart's ignorance of diet stunted her growth. However, in truth <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the subspecies of elephant found in Borneo are pygmy elephants. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whilst researching the book I discovered the various elephants immortalized in many different forms. However, what I received from Mike Lane was something very different. It is fascinating and yet somehow appropriate that this particularly Victorian elephant style act be represented in such a particularly Victorian way. Mike explained</span></span><br />
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week, I bought a number at an auction at Christie’s and one featured an
elephant riding a tricycle. On the front is a name Geo. Lockhart and on
the elephant’s side is the name Boney. I wondered if there was a story
behind this and turned to my friend Mr Google who quickly deposited me
on your blog about the three elephants. Clearly, my pipe is depicting
Boney and thought I that you would appreciate some photos which I have
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And so the legacy endures, as bits and pieces of interesting new information find their way to me and further show just how big an impact these amazing performing animals had on our culture. <br />
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Jamie Clubb's other blogs:
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Recently I wrote a rather lengthy comment on a thread I created that linked my article "Circus and Other 'Low' Arts". It was a flippant expression of my positive feelings towards the culture and society where I was raised. It was a type of call-to-arms and is idyllic in its phrasing. Nevertheless, every statement I made is a statement supported by facts and I have provided footnotes to justify them. It does not dismiss the very real problems faced by circuses and I am all too aware of the many problems circus has brought on itself. However, just once in a while I think we should grant ourselves some interval time... <br />
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<u><b>These are my People</b></u> </div>
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<i>Think of a society that, on a political basis, is both the
capitalist and socialist's dream.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a society that employed ex-slaves<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a>
ahead of everyone else and by its very nature is multicultural.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a society that has a hierarchy and even a system ingrained in culture
and tradition<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a>
and yet opened its doors to absolutely anyone who was willing to work hard and
provide them with the realistic dream of climbing to the top of their
professional tree<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a>.
Think of a society that always provided equal opportunities for men and women<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a>;
a society that had a woman heading a strong family business years before women
had the equal vote.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a society that provided highly profitable employment and success for
the disabled when the rest of society only offered poverty or the workhouse.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a society that brought animals from all over the world to people who
never knew they existed<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></a>
and further worked with institutions that to this day work to conserve these
species.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a society that through exposing people to said animals brought
awareness of said animals' plight in the wild. Think of a culture that
entertained audiences of all classes and creeds.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of a culture that takes the form of a global family accepting leaders as
equals of any sex, race, religion, philosophical position, sexual orientation
or moderate political persuasion.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Think of an institution that boosted the economy, never asked for government
support or public funding; that worked off their own steam and integrated
themselves into every community they visited, often providing job
opportunities. Think of a society that built buildings over a century ago that
still stand today<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span></span></span></a>
and brought elements that are part of the very fabric of modern entertainment.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span></a>
Then imagine if that society is shunned by the country that invented it and
suffers fashionable prejudice.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span></span></span></a>
Imagine if said society's very name prompts disdain to such a degree that it
has become accepted as a noun for general lowliness.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span></span></span></a>
These are my people.</i></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> A
travelling circus is laissez faire capitalism and socialism personified. All
the most successful circus directors came from nothing and built their way up
through vision and hard graft. Historically they never asked for grants or any
sort of funding. The travelling circus is a self-funding institution; its
success is based purely on its ability to produce a spectacle the general
public wish to view. Circus typically offers equal opportunities no matter your
gender, race, culture, religion, political persuasion or sexual orientation.
There are countless examples of people running away to join the circus and
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a>
John Turner’s “Victorian Arena” and numerous surviving circus posters
demonstrate the employment of ex-slaves close. These all happen after the 1833
Slavery Abolition Act in the UK. </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Traditional circuses boasted its international status for centuries. There have
been circus directors from virtually every race, culture, religion and creed. </div>
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Circus families typically run traditional circuses and pass it down through the
generations. </div>
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Many circus directors such as James Bailey simply ran away to join the circus
from nothing and worked their way to become top directors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a>
Unlike any other profession in the Victorian/Edwardian era, the circus allowed
women to play virtually any role that outside society might regard as
“masculine”. For example, there were many female lion and wild animal trainers
in an age where women were prevented from being employed in several “manly”
professions. </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Madam Clara Paulo headed her family circus one year before women were granted
the equal vote. When she started running an entire business, issuing orders to
men and women alike, the outside world did not allow women to vote before they
were 30. </div>
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The freak show might be universally reviled as a form of sad exploitation, but
the truth of the matter is that many deformed and disabled people made a very
profitable income by displaying their differences to the general public. It is
arguable that despite the 1886 Act that banned freak shows in the UK, magazines
and television programmes (particularly reality shows) today still regularly
“exploit” members of our society that suffer from congenital deformities
(Bizarre magazine, Body Shock and Big Brother are three such examples). Joseph
Carey Merrick “The Elephant Man” is a case in point. If it wasn’t for the
impresario Tom Norman, Merrick would have lived the rest of his life in a
workhouse or on the streets. Being too deformed to make a success as a hawker,
his only option was the workhouse. His single surviving piece of writing does
nothing but sing Norman’s praises. In the 20<sup>th</sup> century we have
“Sealo” who enjoyed a very profitable career and the life of a celebrity with
all the trimmings by using his deformity to his advantage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></a>
For almost 200 years travelling circuses and menageries toured all over the
world and took in people of all classes. They often would journey into areas of
the country to see people who would not have the time or money to visit the
zoos of the city. </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span></span></span></a>
Zoos and circuses shared a close relationship for many years up almost the
present day in the UK. They still do in many other countries. Jimmy
Chipperfield, a circus director from an old circus family, is responsible for
the innovation and creation of safari parks all over the world. These
institutions have helped bring greater awareness of the plight of endangered
species and have worked hard to conserve them in the wild. Furthermore, they
are the source of the majority of education we have on the natural world. </div>
</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span></span></span></a>
Despite enjoying royal patronage in most countries, circus is part of the music
hall, vaudeville, fairground, carnival </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span></span></span></a>
There have been in history and are circus directors that have conform to each
and every one of these categories. I have known female circus directors,
homosexual circus directors, conservative circus directors, socialist circus
directors and circus directors of a wide range of races. None of these are
especially rare examples either. They all have historically done business with
each other and worked together. Of course, I have seen blatant examples of
superficial racism, sexism and strong political views – as you do in any
society - but this is not part and parcel of the cultural infrastructure of
traditional circus. This is what marks it out from most other cultures. </div>
</div>
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Any building with the name hippodrome, arena or coliseum often started its
existence as a circus building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6225230530608907577#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span></a>
See Phillip Gandey’s remarks in “The Circus Comes to Town” 2012 BBC
documentary. Circus has influenced a huge amount of art and showbusiness. Circus
shares its roots with pantomime, fairs/carnivals, music hall/vaudeville,
sideshows and travelling menageries. Many circus people are blood-linked to
fairground people (showmen) and music hall booked the same acts that were shown
in circus. Many circus impresarios were also music hall impresarios. Body-building, professional wrestling and even burlesque have their roots in these businesses. </div>
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The modern circus was invented in the UK. However, today making blanket derogatory
statements about circuses and especially animal circuses, rarely meet
opposition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The word “circus” is often used a metaphor for disorder and the circus is often
considered to be a form of low art. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The following was very kindly given to my by Professor Noriko Onoe. It is a summary of her academic article on the author Paul Gallico and circus culture. The main article cites "The Legend of Salt and Sauce" as a reference, but it is written in Japanese. The book is not mentioned in the summary, but it is a fascinating summary nonetheless. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Paul
Gallico and Circus Entertainment</span></div>
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Reference to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love, Let Me Not Hunger</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love,
Let Me Not Hunger</i> was written by Paul Gallico (1897</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">~</span><span lang="EN-US">1976) who had been fascinated with the circus entertainment
throughout his life, and the major theme explored in this novel includes the
circus people’s burning love for their animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although he was an American, Gallico loved the Mediterranean littoral,
and Gallico and Prince Rainier </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ⅲ</span><span lang="EN-US"> of Monaco were very
friendly with each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it is well
known that Rainer </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ⅲ</span><span lang="EN-US"> created the
International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo in 1974 to promote circus arts for
which he had a lifelong passion, we can guess Gallico and Prince Rainier must
have been bound together by their common affection for circus arts. </span></div>
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</span>Since 2006, the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo has been
presided by the daughter of late Prince Rainer </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ⅲ</span><span lang="EN-US">, S.A.S.Princess Stephanie of Monaco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, embodying the vision of Prince Rainier
and under the patronage of Princess Stephanie, the Federation Mondiale du
Cirque was established in 2008 with the aim of bringing together the global
circus community to preserve and promote circus arts and culture around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She considers the presentation of animals has
always been an important part of the circus tradition, and she declares as
follows:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Animals in
the circus are one of the pillars of traditional circus, or of any circus….For
me, it’s impossible to imagine the circus without elephants, horses, big</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cats or sea
lion acts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be a musical hall
act, a show, but it would be something entirely different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, the circus without animals is
inconceivable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like
imagining the circus tomorrow without clowns, without acrobats, without music,
without spotlights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They (the animals)
are full-fledged artists, and I think they should be considered as artists that
are part of the show.”</span></div>
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above, Princess Stephanie regards animal acts as the essential elements</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">of circus, and she emphasizes that the circus people
should dedicate themselves to </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">lifelong relationships with their animal
partners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her faith bears a striking
resem-</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">blance to the belief of Paul Gallico who
expressed his strong attachment to the circus entertainment in almost all of
his literary works; in his novella <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Day Jean-Pierre Joined the Circus </i>(1969), we will recognize an old clown called
Flippo as the most appealing character of this heartwarming story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By comparison to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Day Jean-Pierre Joined the Circus, Love, Let Me Not Hunger </i>(1963)
is extremely tragic although it must be Gallico’s masterpiece.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love, Let Me Not Hunger</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a novel showing insight into the British
circus entertainment in the 1960s and dealing with the lives of various members
of a traveling circus, both human and animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sam Marvel, the proprietor of a small but very good traveling circus,
becomes aware that the telly is cutting permanent inroads into attendance at
circus performances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the historical
point of view, television has begun to affect the negative impact on live
entertainments including circus since the end of 1950s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, Sam Marvel collects a troupe of
superb performers, and announces them that his circus will go to Spain where
there have been no television aerials as yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>Next summer, while the circus is touring in the central Spanish plain of
La Mancha, it is overtaken by a dreadful storm, and the big top is struck by
lightning and completely destroyed by fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marvel leaves Spain for England in order to make settlement with his
insurance company, and almost all of his workers decide to leave there with
him.</span></div>
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</span>Before his departure, Marvel asks four people to care for the remaining
animals; one of them is Mr. Albert, the old beastman; one is Fred Deeter, the
American ex-cowboy; one is Janos, the Hungarian midget clown with dogs; and one
is Toby Walters, the young auguste rider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In addition to them, Rose, one of the principal character of this novel,
makes her way back to the circus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picked
up off the streets by</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jackdaw Williams, the middle-aged clown,
Rose keeps house for him, but she makes up her mind to part from him, because
she has fallen desperately in love with Toby, and she is an ardent lover of
animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>Time goes by, but Marvel’s insurance claim remains unsettled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, the animals and five people who
are abandoned in a drought in the plain of La Mancha, face the crisis of
famine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The circus people cannot endure
the agony of watching their animals starving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Driven into desperation, Janos murders a horse to give the meat to his
dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Terribly shocked at this incident,
Fred Deeter, the horseman, deserts the encampment, and never returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the hunger is at its worst, Rose
secretly goes to a roadhouse and prostitutes herself to get money to feed the
animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strongly impressed by her
self-sacrificing deed, Mr. Albert summons up his courage to ask the horrible
Marquesa de Pozoblanco to rescue the animals in a miserable plight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As this tyrant queen mistakes Mr. Albert for
a great clown, she promises him to help the circus animals on condition that he
serves her until she releases him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
her request, the dwarf clown Janos agrees to serve her, too, since he wants his
dogs to be properly fed, but, he dies suddenly in her farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, Toby happens to know what Rose
is doing in the roadhouse, and he turns her out in a rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet eventually he can appreciate her
passionate love for the circus animals including his favorite elephant Judy who
tried to kill her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He admires and loves
Rose from the bottom of his heart.</span></div>
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</span>On the other hand, when Sam Marvel gets the insurance cheque, he sells
the assets</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">he still possesses to another circus
proprietor who wants to present a bigger show, and he buys himself a bowling
alley.</span></div>
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</span>On the Christmas day, the Marquesa dies of cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, nobody can keep Mr. Albert from
returning to England, but he decides to remain there for the great compassion
on this lonely woman who pleaded him not to leave her on her deathbed.</span></div>
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both human and animal, are suffering from hunger not only for food but for
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Accordingly, he suggests we cannot
stand the pang of another kind of hunger</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">―</span><span lang="EN-US">love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is quite obvious
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time these four-footed friends have given the significance to their lonely
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is necessary for us to
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one</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">of the pillars of circus….They are
full-fledged artists, and I think they should be considered as artists that are
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Gunther Gebel-Williams, who demonstrated to all the audience that humans and
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not intend to show the gorgeous appearance of circus, but he effectively
depicts the circus people who long to save their animals from starvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through this novel, we must be able to
understand the profound role of a true new circus in which human beings and our
four-legged friends can cooperate to display the marvelous acts.</span></div>
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Reading through the sad but beautifully written
eulogy/obituary of Ken MacManus by Samanatha Cartmel (John Darnell's
girlfriend. John also contributed to the piece), I cannot begin to explain how
strange it feels to have arrived at this time. I was shocked at the feeling of
losing someone who was a big part of my growing up. These people seem somehow
eternal. Ken was a dear friend of my parents' back when they ran their own
circus in the late '70s and early '80s. Ken was part of the Mohawks riding act
and later became our ringmaster. </div>
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Relatively speaking I guess I didn't spend a tremendous
amount of time with him, but the time I did spend were some of the happiest
years of my life. The people we lived with on the circus left an indelible
impression on me. He was an "uncle" of sorts, as his wife, Clara, was
like an aunt. To him I was always "Young Jamie". His voice was
unmistakable and I can hear it now all these years later. He always had time
for me and the picture of him minding me as I rode Indian, our pony, is
typical. Years later, when I periodically visited Paulo's Circus, Ken would
always pull me from the audience to join in the "Riding Machine". I
was terrible and it goes to show how much you do forget! Whilst on our circus I
have fond memories of looking at the Indian/Native American pictures and
paraphernalia in his wagon. He helped me build dinosaurs and introduced me to
the exclamation mark! Weird how these disparate memories come back to you.</div>
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The next time I came across Uncle Ken was when I began
researching my book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". Dad interviewed
him regarding his time working alongside Salt and Sauce. Ken provided us with a
lot of vital primary source information on their presenter, Emily Paulo, and
the various incidents that occurred on the show during their time with Paulo's
Circus. He and Aunty Clara rode Sauce the elephant alongside Salt to Doncaster
Registry Office on 3rd November 1943 to be married. Clara performed with the
elephants in the show that night. Unfortunately the next time I would see Uncle
Ken was at Aunty Clara's funeral. However, it was great to hear his voice
again. It later transpired that he didn't get a copy of our book much to the
huge embarrassment of Dad and me. We made sure that his grandson, John, picked
up a signed copy for him and I am happy it got to him weeks before his death on
24th August 2012.</div>
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I first met Ken and Clara in 1971 when I joined
Chipperfiled’s Circus. Ken became an immediate friend, giving me friendly
advice and practical help. Our friendship continued throughout the time we
worked for Chipperfield’s and I was saddened the day they decided not to come
back for the following season. When I started Sally Chipperfield’s Circus in
the winter of 1977 I was determined to have Ken and his family on board for our
new venture. Unfortunately he was already committed for the 1978 season, but I
was successful in contracting him and Clara for the 1979 season. Ken originally
joined us as general manager, tent-master and his two acts; the Mohawks that
only consisted of him and Clara, and their pigeon act. Carlos Michelli was also
on the show that year and we put him in the riding act along with me, combining
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At the beginning of this season we lost our tent first to
the snow and two weeks later to the wind when it was completely destroyed. I
couldn’t have had a better right hand man during this disaster. We pulled down,
packed the show up and limped back to Chipperfield’s winter quarters in
Oxfordshire. Ken and I caught a plane to Amsterdam, where we were collected by
the owner of Circus Mikkenie who had two tents for sale. We bought one, packed
it onto a truck owned by the circus and drove back to the UK. We had to make
new king poles and quarter poles and we opened for the Easter holiday, exactly
10 days after we had lost the tent. Without Ken’s good advice, support and hard
work, we would have never achieved this.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ken accompanied me on
many foreign trips, buying tents and equipment, including being stranded in
Norway through weather conditions. He shared my interest in good food and wine,
and Clara was also a superb cook. He always stood at the cage door when I was
working the lions or any other act. He even used to hold the third bear in our
lunge bear act. When our lions escaped at Devises in 1980, Ken was right there
with me, helping the capture. When we succeeded in getting the last one in the
back of our horsebox, which was half full of hay, Ken was the one who came in
and helped me get the lion back out again and also handled the Health and
Safety officer who came down the next day. This was probably the worst
experience I ever had running a circus, but the incident happened in the
morning and after the recapture of the lions we opened the same day at 3
o’clock with the lions in the show just like nothing had happened. Ken gave me
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In my eyes, he was the quintessential gentleman of the
circus – both in and outside ring. It was far more than act. Tony Hopkins – who
was our advance publicity manager when Ken was on the show - said to me, at
Ken’s funeral, “I always admired the way Ken introduced you to anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always gave you the greatest respect.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have nothing but the highest opinion of Ken
MacManus. He was a manager, a tentmaster, a ringmaster, an excellent animal
trainer and, above all, a true star of the circus. It still gives me a cold
shiver of excitement when I remember the music of the Indian Love Call as the
Mohawk act was introduced and Ken walked through the curtain in his full Indian
war bonnet – the mark of a true artiste. </div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KENNETH MACMANUS</span></b></u></div>
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<i>by Samanatha Cartmel (assisted by Ken's grandson, John Darnell)</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ken was born
in 1925 in the Barbican, Plymouth, to Patrick and Selina MacManus, a Naval
family. Ken was a middle-child of eight brothers and five sisters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From a young
age Ken proved he was hardworking and independent. At 12 he learned to drive,
and his earliest job was working for a fruit and potato merchant, which he
proved to be so good at that he soon practically ran the business for the
owner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His eldest
brother Henry, an accomplished boxer known as “Lightning MacManus”, married Grace
Paulo in 1934. Grace was the daughter of “Madame Clara” Paulo, one of the only
female circus proprietors in Great Britain. It was around this time that Ken
met Grace’s sister Clara (known as Clarinda) when he was just 17. Ken and Clara
fell in love and were married in Doncaster in November 1943, just one month
before Ken was conscripted into the Army and joined the 6<sup>th</sup> Airborne
Division of the Devonshire Regiment. Ken and Clara’s love was a true war-time
romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just like
many young men during this difficult time away from his family Ken performed
more than his duty during World War II. On 5<sup>th</sup> June 1944, Ken was
expecting to be a member of the glider force, ready to land in Normandy, but as
suspicion in the ranks grew they realised things would change. At the last
minute, Ken found out he would be a member of the land force and on 6<sup>th</sup>
June 1944 (D-Day) he bravely took part in the second wave of the famous
Normandy beach landings. As a highly regarded Private, he also took the
responsibility of Officer’s Batman (the Officer’s right-hand man who was
responsible for radio communications). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On one not-so-very-special
day when the Germans were retreating, Ken and his fellow soldiers were
travelling through a small French town. They came across a group of local
people throwing stones and tormenting a terrified horse, which had apparently
belonged to the German forces. As a lover of horses and always the one for
doing the right thing, it was Ken who stepped forward to rescue the injured
animal. The horse was understandably terrified, but Ken persisted and (even
speaking to it in a little German) he eventually calmed the animal down enough
to treat its wounds. Ken lead the horse to the S.S. Stables and was surprised
to find them full of new and beautifully crafted leather saddles and bridles. Obviously
thinking that only the best would do for the horse, Ken saddled it up with the
best harness he could find. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Ken’s
fellow soldiers joked with him about being a circus boy, Ken proved to them
that he was a true ‘horse whisperer’ as he gently encouraged the horse to trust
him enough to ride it in the troop’s advance through France. Nobody could miss
Ken MacManus as he was the only Private on horseback. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Later in the
war, Ken was present at the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge, a massacre at
Bastogne. Not long after, he was wounded by the shrapnel from an exploding
landmine, which had detonated close-by, killing his friends. Ken was taken to
hospital where he recovered and was discharged, finally getting the chance to
return home to his beloved wife Clara (and son). In March 1946, Kenneth Junior
died at the age of 16 months. It must have been a terrible time for Ken and
Clara, but later that same year Evelyn Clara MacManus was born. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ken grew to
be a talented bareback rider, trapeze artist and clown in the Paulo’s family circus.
The family troupe travelled in the early 1950s to many countries, including Belgium,
Germany, and Norway, Holland, Sweden and Italy and also Switzerland. Tours
included their 1951 and 1953 seasons with Circus Franz Mikkenie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1954, Ken
spent a lot of this time breaking and training new horses until in 1955 him and
Clara formed a new bareback riding act, which debuted at Great Yarmouth
Hippodrome. They performed as a Red Indian act known as The Mohawks, and later
as a comic jockey riding act known as The Ascots. From 1956 to 1960, they toured
mainly with Bertram Mills Circus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1961 Ken
and Clara’s daughter Evelyn, aged just 14, joined the family bareback riding
act. The family spent the ‘60s touring with numerous circuses across Great
Britain and Europe and in 1966, Evelyn’s husband John and Ken’s new son-in-law
joined the act. The family troupe toured with many European circuses, the Blackpool
Tower Circus in 1964 and 1966, the Kelvin Hall Circus in Glasgow, Sarassani in
Germany, Cirkus Scott in Sweden, and the Chipperfields and Gerry Cottle’s
Circuses in the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1977, Ken’s
family’s riding act represented Great Britain at the Circus World Championships
in London where in the finals they gained 40 points for presentation and 37
points for content, only to be narrowly beaten by the Swedish riders. During
this year Ken, Clara, Evelyn, John and other family members also appeared in
the Granada TV production of Charles Dicken’s “Hard Times” as the circus
artists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1978, a
special article about The Paulos, but specifically The Mowhawks, featured in
the June issue of King Pole, which said Ken “considers that they are first and
foremost entertainers and as such it is their duty to be well turned out and
visually pleasing.” They made all of their own costumes, including Ken’s
beautifully hand carved leather belts and gun belts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After
spending 1978 with Circus Hoffman, the family riding act split up and Ken
became General Manager of Sally Chipperfields Circus in Britain with Ken and
Clara performing at Chipperfields as the Mohawks once again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1983, after
years of performing in the ring, Ken and Clara started their own circus,
reviving the proud title of Paulo’s Circus. For 10 years their travelling show
was regarded as among the finest in Great Britain, attracting prestigious
visitors including the Queen in 1984.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1996,
after 53 years of working in Circus, Ken retired to Lincolnshire with his
beloved wife Clara, where they exchanged their trailer for a bungalow. In 1999
the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain presented its Lifetime Achievement
Award to Ken and Clara in recognition of their achievements and dedication in
the ring. It was a very proud moment for them and their family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly, in
2001, Clara passed away. It was a very sad time for the whole family and one
could say the end of an era. Clara was the second youngest of eight children
and she will no doubt be remembered as one of the last great circus
prima-ballerinas on horseback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Evelyn tells
of how she was a daughter but also a son to her Dad as her elder brother
Kenneth died at such a young age. Evelyn remembers how the strict father she
knew mellowed so much in later years and devoted a lot of time to his
grandchildren, teaching them many things, from rope splicing, to juggling and
gymnastics. It was very evident that he valued them very much and was proud of
them all. Grandson, John Junior says how he has never met anyone like his
grandfather. He did his own cooking, he encouraged everyone to strive and be
better at the things he taught them, and the talents they themselves had. He
was a master of being able to criticise and encourage at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In his later
years, Ken busied himself in his leather-crafts. As an exceptional craftsman
already experienced at making his own gun belts, Ken focused his time on making
miniature western saddles. All individual with carefully crafted and intricate designs,
any would look at home in the Wild Wests of America. Those who have been lucky
enough to have been given one by Ken will appreciate each were made with a care
that was remarkable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As part of
his desire to keep fit Ken loved to take a bus to Spalding or Boston and walk
around the town, often popping into charity shops on the look-out for good
quality items he felt he could use in his crafts or could give to his
grandchildren. He was a proud man, and always very independent. He was a proper
English Gentleman, and a true gentleman of the circus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ken will be
regarded as a wonderful father for Evelyn and father-in-law to John, grandfather
to Kenny, Natalie and John, great-grandfather to eight and great
great-grandfather to two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He will be
remembered always as “granddad Mac,” one of the greatest and most special
granddads the family could have, a magnificent showman and master horseman.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-43219471921128961442012-08-02T05:39:00.000-07:002012-09-06T03:22:31.621-07:00Death of a Lion "tamer" on Ringland's Circus 1950<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Seems like an age since I last posted on here. An email came in from my cousin Jim Stockley recently regarding some <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Circus">circus</a> history relating to the elephants <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>. He forwarded us this enquiry left on <a href="http://www.circushistory.org/Query.htm%20">the Circus History website</a>. <br />
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<i>Lion tamer 1960s, 01 Aug 2012 - I am trying to trace the name and date of death of a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_taming" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lion taming">lion tamer</a> that was killed in the ring in a circus in the United Kingdom in the sixties. The details I have are vague, but there is a background and a reason for trying to find out. My mother recently passed away and I know that although she got engaged to my father in 1964, they had unknowingly been at the same circus performance a few years earlier where the lion-tamer had got killed. I do not know the exact year - I guess it must have been after 1960 - and it would have been in the Midlands of the UK, probably Birmingham or Wolverhampton. Any ideas? Can you help from such vague information? </i><br />
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This prompted my father (my main researcher on my book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce") to reply.<br />
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<i>The trainer in question was “Captain” Nayara Swami – “the world’s only Negro lion tamer” – an Indian from Madaras who normally did a whip-cracking called “Swami and Sheila”. He was aged 36 when he was killed at Abbey Park, Evesham in 1950. The act consisted of a male lion, Leo, and two <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lion">lionesses</a>. The animals belonged to “Sister” Jeanette Fossett, the wife of Claude Fossett and the mother of Jessie. The show was Ringland’s Circus run by her father, “Long” Tom Fossett. This lion had already injured another trainer, but we don't have those details at present. Jessie told me that she was there and saw it happen. The lions were kept in shifting boxes, pushed up to the cage with no tunnel. <a href="http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/past/9563355.Luck__liquor_and_lion_taming/">It was reported in the Evesham Journal that “he was dragged out of the cage by a group of clowns”</a>. This wasn’t the case. The lions had left the ring, but the tunnel gate hadn’t been closed properly and as Swami took his call, Leo came back in, grabbed him and pulled him in the shifting box. They got the lion off and Swami was still alive, but he later died at Evesham Hospital. </i><br />
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The details of the story came via Dennis Fossett, the son of Tom, who was present on the show and Jessie Fossett, who was previously mentioned. Both stories married up with no contradictions. It attracted my interest because Salt and Sauce were owned by Tom at the time and would have been present on the show. Both Tom and Salt would die two years later. Salt's death, as recorded in the book, was a major local incident resulting from her getting stuck in Vauxhall Lake, Canterbury for seven hours.
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-45736373332724274162012-03-07T03:58:00.002-08:002012-03-07T03:59:22.391-08:00Better late than never!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A year or so back I was made aware that journalist Sylvia Kent was writing a piece on Joan Rosaire. Joan is an extraordinary circus horse trainer from an amazing circus family. The Rosaires, and in particular Joan's Uncle Ivor, were a key part of my book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". Their own story of hardship and success in the circus world enchanted such contemporary writers as Ruth Manning-Saunders and Rupert Croft Cooke. <br />
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I don't know how seeing the actual online article has slipped me by, but by chance I stumbled across it today. Sylvia has several very entertaining and informative pieces on the Rosaires that I would highly recommend you read.<br />
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<a href="http://sylviakent.blogspot.com/2008/07/famous-rosaires.html">The Famous Rosaires</a><br />
<a href="http://www.billericayhistory.org.uk/page_id__77_path__0p2p20p.aspx">Billericay Welcomes Circus Rosaire (article featuring "The Legend of Salt and Sauce")</a><br />
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Jamie Clubb's other blogs:
www.beelzebubsbroker.blogspot.com
www.clubbchimera.com</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-23997184310586826472012-02-14T02:29:00.002-08:002012-02-14T02:29:31.578-08:00World Circus Culture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center;">circus (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37031529@N00/4540353254">fsse8info</a>)</td></tr>
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The above archive photographs were sourced via <a href="http://circusnospin.blogspot.com/2012/01/franklin-park-zoo-elephants.html">Wade Burk's "Circus No Spin Zone" blog</a>. My gratitude to Wade for finding them. They illustrate the final destination of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Lockhart" rel="wikipedia" title="George William Lockhart">George Lockhart</a> Jnr's original trio of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant" rel="wikipedia" title="Elephant">elephants</a>, Boney, Molly and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddy" rel="wikipedia" title="Waddy">Waddy</a> - or at least it shows Molly and Waddy. This is the accompanying text to the pictures: <br />
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"Kiddies' Elephants on their way to their new home in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.3052,-71.0891&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.3052,-71.0891%20%28Franklin%20Park%20Zoo%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Franklin Park Zoo">Franklin Park Zoo</a>. Molly, Waddy, and Tony perform for the Red Cross and children on Boston Common. 1914" and "Kiddies' elephants on their way to their new home in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.3052,-71.0891&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.3052,-71.0891%20%28Franklin%20Park%20Zoo%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Franklin Park Zoo">Franklin Park zoo</a>. Bought by the children for $6,000. 1914".<br />
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I am not sure who Tony was. My father thinks that it might be Boney (pronounced Bonny) who you can just about make out in the background. Boney was considered to be an undersized elephant and this has been attributed to the lack of nutritional information George Lockhart had when he and his wife raised her. However, it is also suggested that this probably has more to do with her subspecies.<br />
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Boney, who did the majority of the work, was bought first by George and was his first trained elephant. Molly and Waddy were bought together and, according to George's son, were inseparable. They performed at music halls in the UK as well as in front of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" rel="wikipedia" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> and the future <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="wikipedia" title="Edward VII of the United Kingdom">Edward VII</a> (who famously stopped his royal procession to enable George's elephants to cross). They also toured Europe and Russia, performing in front of the Tzar. We have archive material on their highly successful tour of New York in 1895 as well as anecdotes supplied by George Lockhart Jnr of some near miss accidents. These three elephants made George Lockhart and his charges the toast of Victorian society on an international scale and George Lockhart Jnr, who went on to become "The Doyen of Ringmasters", dined off the many exciting and amusing anecdotes the trio provided. <br />
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The elephants were sold in 1901 to circus proprietor William Orford. These pictures depict their sale to Franklin Park Zoo, USA, in 1914. For the full story of these elephants and the career of their first elephant trainer, George Lockhart Snr, please read my book "The Legend of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>".<br />
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David Taylor, who occasionally went under the title David Tayleur, has recently come to my attention. Although he didn't play a direct role in the lives of the elephants <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a> he does appear in my book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". Taylor arrives on the scene in 1920, two years prior to John "Broncho Bill" Swallow's acquisition of Salt and Sauce. He was already in partnership with Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake. They had run a small circus in 1919. They then partnered <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swallow" rel="wikipedia" title="John Swallow">John Swallow</a> in an ill-fated much larger enterprise called "Ringland's Great Circus and Menagerie". The title was obviously capitalizing on the American Ringling Brother's Circus (which became the "Ringling Brother's, Barnum and Bailey Circus") and should not be confused with "Long" Tom Fossett's "Ringland's Circus" of the 1950s (which would also show Salt and Sauce). When the large show failed, Tyrwhitt-Drake pulled out of the partnership. John Swallow continued with his own circus under the old Broncho Bill moniker. Taylor stayed with John Swallow in the same capacity he had been before, as the circus manager.
I have recently been contacted by Roy Kneath, who is a descendent of Taylor's, and is trying to get verification on the photographs displayed here. If anyone can say whether or not these images are of David Taylor please let us know.<br />
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I was recently shown a link to an interesting <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing" rel="wikipedia" title="Academic publishing">academic paper</a> about racism and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals" rel="wikipedia" title="Cruelty to animals">animal abuse</a> in an historic context. The paper,<a href="http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/871_racialprejudiceandtheperf.pdf"> "Racial Prejudice and the Performing AnimalsControversy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" by David A. H. Wilson </a>of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/" rel="homepage" title="University of Cumbria">University of Cumbria</a>, makes an interesting argument for the way racist ideas were common among both critics and defenders of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_training" rel="wikipedia" title="Animal training">animal trainers</a>. Amid the all-too-familiar arguments on both sides we note that there are also the usual racist arguments heard today. Fear of losing work to immigrants is just below the surface of certain protestations. This, however, is combined with the bigotry common at the time. For example, species of animals are compared to different races of people and being post-World War I Germaphobia is a hot tactic. Interestingly animal rightists, who these days tend to cite the odd notion of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism" rel="wikipedia" title="Speciesism">speciesism</a> as an extension of racism, also make a distinction between foreign trainers, who they consider to be cruel, from British trainers. <br />
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Due to public pressure in the 1920s a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare" rel="wikipedia" title="Animal welfare">animal welfare</a> bill was brought in relation to performing animals. This resulted in the creation of the Performing Animal Act 1925. To this day, anyone who wishes to perform professionally with an animal in the UK in front of a live audience has to be in possession of a licence. In my book "The Legend of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>" I briefly mentioned the act as it occurred during the time-line of the lives of the two circus elephants, Salt and Sauce. What I didn't realize at the time was how many characters in my story were featured in the consultation prior to the act.<br />
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First up, George Lockhart Jnr, who is referred to as an elephant trainer. We have no evidence for this claim. He grew up around his father's first trio of elephants and later helped a little over the brief period that his father owned his second period. He was also present when his father was killed by either Salt or Sauce in 1904:<br />
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<i>George Lockhart, elephant trainer and equestrian director of the Tower<br />Circus, Blackpool, said to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_committee_%28Westminster_system%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Select committee (Westminster system)">Select Committee</a>: “It seems to me that the<br />very fact that the great majority of the convictions [for cruelty to performing<br />animals] are against foreigners must of itself be some sort of defence of the<br />English trainer”</i><br />
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I find it interesting that many British circus directors, performers and animal trainers used the racist or xenophobic tactic to shift the blame. Since <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era" rel="wikipedia" title="Victorian era">Victorian times</a>, traditional circus has been inherently non-prejudicial. It has been remarked how travelling circuses were probably one of the first institutions to actively employ ex-slaves after the Abolition Act. Circus also has a history of finding often good paying work for people who would otherwise be considered disabled or slighted for their deformities. Furthermore, women worked in the same jobs as men and even headed family shows as the director long before they were granted equal voting rights in Britain. Nevertheless, circus people do not completely exist in a bubble and it is not surprising that they were also influenced by the rest of society and saw advantage in a scapegoat.<br />
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Here's Lockhart again, discussing the policy to boycott or ban foreign animal acts: <br />
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<i>George Lockhart thought that only since the war had very few trained animals<br />come from abroad, and that any resumption would depend on VAF policy.<br />There was no restriction before the war because “we lived together in amity,”<br />and he admitted that the profession had not barred German-trained animals<br />on grounds of suspected cruelty (1435-1440).</i><br />
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If you have read my book, you will notice that as great a showman as George Lockhart Jnr was, he wasn't adverse to making up stories. I have said that this a by-product of his larger-than-life image. However, this statement adds a whole new dimension to his yarning:<br />
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<i>George Lockhart said that the best animal trainers came from Germany, and they were the<br />best because they probably used methods that would give British trainers a<br />very bad name indeed. He admitted he had never seen them at work, but they<br />had trained horses to perform in ways not attempted or achieved by English<br />trainers, so cruelty was suspected</i><br />
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Lockhart's second group of elephants came from the famous animal trainer and keeper, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hagenbeck" rel="wikipedia" title="Carl Hagenbeck">Carl Hagenbeck</a> and it is highly likely, that a Hagenbeck trainer part trained them before they arrived in the UK. George Lockhart Jnr always maintained that the elephants were wild, but photographic evidence and the time-line seems to contradict this assertion. Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake is also quoted.<i> T</i>wrwhitt-Drake appears early on in my book with the ill-fated first Ringlands Circus he ran with John Swallow and David Tayleur in 1920. Twrwhitt-Drake went on to create Maidstone Zoo and also mentions Salt and Sauce in an elephant book he wrote. Here is the passage on him:<br />
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<i>As to the question of the close confi nement of wild animals, the witness Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, owner of Garrard’s Circus and secretary of Ringlands Zoo Company, later wrote:<br /> </i><br />
<i>"Take the case of a primitive native. I venture to think that if he was off ered freedom<br />with its attendant hunt for food and family worries against confi nement in an enclosure<br />with warm sleeping quarters, one or two wives and plenty of good food and<br />drink, and no worries, he would choose comparative confi nement rather than freedom"</i><br />
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Interestingly Hagenbeck, the original owners of the elephants, Salt and Sauce, is the exception given for German trainers. Of course, his zoo and circus business encompassed many other foreign trainers, so it somewhat contradicts the point being made by those opposing and defending the animal training business. <br />
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I recommend the article for anyone interested in the history of British animal training and the society that surrounds it. <br />
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<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=627d32b8-29db-4c82-876d-f8a7cd6853d6" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.jamieclubb.blogspot.com</div>Philip Astleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033366953482801496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6225230530608907577.post-90848784596084149202011-08-26T02:57:00.000-07:002011-08-26T02:57:44.296-07:00The Pride of Larry Lamb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right; width: 254px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Mitchell-EE.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Archie Mitchell" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/A_Mitchell-EE.jpg" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Image via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Mitchell-EE.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span>It's not even a year on from the Welsh <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program" rel="wikipedia" title="Television program">TV show</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5bp1">"Coming Home" </a>revealing the wild <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_training" rel="wikipedia" title="Animal training">animal training</a> ancestry of actor <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_sheen" rel="rottentomatoes" title="Michael Sheen">Michael Sheen</a> and the nationwide equivalent, "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are" rel="wikipedia" title="Who Do You Think You Are">Who Do You Think You Are</a>?" has established another celebrity circus connection. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Lamb_%28actor%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Larry Lamb (actor)">Larry Lamb</a>, who used to play "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/" rel="homepage" title="EastEnders">Eastenders</a>" soap opera villain "evil" <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Mitchell" rel="wikipedia" title="Archie Mitchell">Archie Mitchell</a> and as Mick Shipman in the hit comedy series "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_%26_Stacey" rel="wikipedia" title="Gavin & Stacey">Gavin and Stacey</a>", told <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/" rel="homepage" title="Daily Mirror">The Mirror</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" rel="homepage" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a> newspapers that he didn't know much about his heritage due to his mother being adopted. Press reports of the show reveal that Lamb's great-great uncle was Thomas Day known as "Martini Bartlett the Lion King". What they don't expand - and hopefully the show will - is that Day was married to Pauline "Kit" <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipperfield" rel="wikipedia" title="Chipperfield">Chipperfield</a>. Chipperfield, a relation of mine on my maternal side, and therefore part of another circus family famed for wild animal training and presenting. Day was also the brother of James "Wild Beast" Day of the once famous Day's Menagerie. <br />
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Lamb's reaction was very similar to Michael Sheen's when he discovered the truth about his cultural heritage. He told "The Mirror", a paper that is usually found criticizing traditional circuses and especially wild animal training, the following: <br />
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“To be related to these people, the same clan – wow. My mum always nursed this dream that she would meet her mum again so when this programme was offered I thought this would be a good thing for her. It was all surprises. The whole female side and the male side were a complete surprise.<div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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“This travelling instinct is in the family and the showman element is the answer to a lot of questions. I love it. It’s wonderful.”<br />
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</div>The truth is that plenty of actors of the past had deep roots in the world of circus and variety, but such as is the nature over-taking showbusiness trends (and not mention a bit of British cultural snobbery that often marginalizes traditional circus) that this all-too-often becomes forgotten. The "Time Shift" <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program" rel="wikipedia" title="Television program">TV shows</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0135kkp">"When the Circus Comes to Town"</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012zmy7">"All the Fun at the Fair"</a> have recently done a small amount to address this balance, reminding older generations and educating new ones just how much circuses and fairs used to mean to the population of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20%28United%20Kingdom%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>.<br />
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The circus world are no doubt shaking their heads at the irony of <i>The Mirror </i>and <i>The Daily Mail </i>being the two tabloids who have chosen to take up this story and both of them showcasing it in a positive light. Both papers, along with <i>The Independent </i>that wrote positively about<i> </i>the two "Time Shift" shows, have waged a history of aggressive and poorly researched campaigns targeting animal training in circuses. <i> </i> <br />
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However, it is little surprise to those who support circus culture that the creative team behind the programme would find the story so appealing. According to press reports show producer Tom McDonald, "singled out Larry's episode as the one of which he is most proud":<br />
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“It could stand as a documentary in its own right. It is just a downright wonderful story. I don’t think you can watch it without being moved.”<br />
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Link to <a href="http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/larry-lamb-learns-he%E2%80%99s-descended-from-circus-lion-tamers-on-who-do-you-think-you-are/">Prime Unreality TV's report.</a><br />
Link to <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/08/22/larry-lamb-finds-out-his-family-were-lion-tamers-115875-23362718/">The Mirror's report</a><br />
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Link to <i>The Independent</i>'s report on <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-tv-timeshift-when-the-circus-comes-to-townbbc4br-true-stories-babes-in-hollywoodmore4-2334866.html">"When the Circus Comes to Town"</a>. <br />
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The most famous of Norman's employees was <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick" rel="wikipedia" title="Joseph Merrick">Joseph Merrick</a> "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1006527-elephant_man" rel="rottentomatoes" title="The Elephant Man">The Elephant Man</a>". Contrary to popular belief, largely put across in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/david_lynch" rel="rottentomatoes" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a>'s* fictionalized account of Merrick's life, there is scant evidence that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability" rel="wikipedia" title="Disability">disabled people</a> were especially abused or used like slaves. Often the opportunity to earn by exploiting one's condition - and Merrick was on 50/50 box office split with Norman - was a better alternative to begging, hawking goods or a life in the workhouse. Details of this and the bad representation that sideshows, circuses and their closely related forms of entertainment endure to this day were presented in my article <a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.com/2008/04/circus-and-other-low-arts-defence.html">"Circus and Other 'Low' Arts: A Defence" </a><br />
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I am delighted to say that the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/" rel="homepage" title="BBC">BBC</a> have recently aired an episode of "Time Shifts" that focuses on the history of the British fair. This includes a rational and historically accurate account of Tom Norman and the Victorian freak-show. This helps put the whole concept of something that the middle classes found abhorrent and we, without any sense of irony, often deride as being an outdated form of amusement enjoyed by people of a bygone era.**<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012zmy7/Time_Shift_Series_11_All_the_Fun_of_the_Fair/">Click here for a link to the BBC iPlayer showing of the programme. </a><br />
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Of course, my main interest in Tom Norman comes from his tenuous connection to two real elephants, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>, the subject of my 2008 book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce: Britain's Most Famous Elephants". We have a source that claims Norman employed these two amazing pachyderms during the 1920s. <br />
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*Lynch is not known for his grasp on reality. Rightfully hailed as a talented and original film-maker, if verging on the very pretentious at times, Lynch was one of the supporters of the appalling conspiracy theory internet documentary "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/loose-change-2nd-edition" rel="rottentomatoes" title="Loose Change 2nd Edition">Loose Change</a>". It would appear that as profound and sophisticated as Lynch is often considered, he is just as easy to be persuaded by populist sensationalism as the next person.<br />
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**I say ironic (again see <a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.com/2008/04/circus-and-other-low-arts-defence.html">my article</a>), as we live in an age of "Big Brother", "Jackass", "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/britains-got-talent" rel="myspace" title="Britain's Got Talent ">Britain's Got Talent</a>" and "Body Shock". How are these programmes not "exploitative" in the same sense as a Victorian freak-show was? <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A tornado struck <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.0841666667,-94.5130555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.0841666667,-94.5130555556%20%28Joplin%2C%20Missouri%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Joplin, Missouri">Joplin, Missouri</a>, in the last week of May 2011, leaving a reported 139 people dead and devastated city. President <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/barack-obama" rel="myspace" title="Barack Obama">Barrack Obama</a> has pledged that the city will be rebuilt, but in the meantime a lot of work needed to be done in order to clear debris. It just happened that Piccadilly Circus was scheduled to show the week after the tornado and found their area occupied by a makeshift hospital. According to a report published in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" rel="homepage" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Telegraph newspaper</a> an unnamed circus employee said <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8550004/Elephant-helps-clear-tornado-debris-in-Missouri.html%20">"We thought it'seither take the day off or give a hand to the people who really need it."</a> So, they lent the support of their elephants to help pull cars out of the way and clear the debris. The whole incident reminds me of a different age when circus automatically assimilated itself into any community it visited. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Circus brought spectacle, entertainment and unusual animals to the common man. It may have been patronized by royalty, and still is in certain countries, but its main strength came from the fact that by its travelling nature it brought excitement to those who could not afford to travel to the big cities or faraway countries. I have read countless numbers of articles describing the way a visiting circus made friends with the communities they visited and for the short period they showed, were accepted as being temporary locals. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8550004/Elephant-helps-clear-tornado-debris-in-Missouri.html"></a> </div><div class="MsoNormal">When I wrote my book “The Legend of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_Sauce" rel="wikipedia" title="Salt and Sauce">Salt and Sauce</a>” I was interested to uncover a story about the book’s lead protagonists’ – two Indian elephants – involvement in the war effort. I wrote a post on it <a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.com/2010/10/salt-and-sauce-helping-war-effort.html%20">here.</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://jamieclubb.blogspot.com/2010/10/salt-and-sauce-helping-war-effort.html"><br />
</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal">So, it was no real surprise to me to hear about a visiting circus getting immediately stuck in and aiding the location where they visited in a time of need. However, what was a pleasant surprise was to read about it in a British newspaper. </div><div><br />
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It's been three years since "The Legend of Salt Sauce" was published. Since then I have noticed circus elephants appear in the media on a few occasions. This year sees the release of the movie "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephants-Novel-Sara-Gruen/dp/1565124995%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1565124995" rel="amazon" title="Water for Elephants: A Novel">Water for Elephants</a>", a Hollywood adaptation of Sarah Gruen's circus novel of the same name. I haven't seen the film yet, but my cousin, a wild animal trainer in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/south-africa" rel="lonelyplanet" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, got to see the film before its release in the US and UK. Here is his "impression" of the film. I think it provides a rather unique insight given that his respective backgrounds include a background in traditional circus (both Jim and my family were working on circuses during the Prohibition era the film is set) and a strong working knowledge in the film industry. <br />
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The film opened last night in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/south-africa" rel="lonelyplanet" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> and we went to see it. Its a very difficult film to review, I was watching it first as a circus person, second as a film animal supplier and only thirdly as a regular film goer. I have no idea what our local public will make of it, have to wait and see what the professional reviews say.<br />
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The parts they got right were great, the parts that were wrong were laughable. It isn't really a 'circus film' ...... it's a love triangle set against a 1930s <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition era</a> circus background. As a film goer I thought all three lead actors were good but didn't feel that the love triangle worked ...... I didn't feel drawn to the characters but I may have still been watching for all the other circus stuff I also thought the story thread about Auguste killing off the tentmen by throwing them off the train was poorly explained and a lot of the train scenes were dark and poorly lit.<br />
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Witherspoon does very well with the elephant, Gary Johnson's prep time with her was well spent.<br />
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The colour, texture and feel of build up of the circus, the canvas tent being pulled over grass on an early sunny morning, the horse drawn wagons and the first show are great. On the big screen it is beautifully filmed and worth the price of admission for that alone. The state of the cookhouse tent top looked like something familiar ...... those of you that were tenting in the 60s and 70s will know what I mean!<br />
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I got dirty looks from the people in our row when I laughed (out loud) at the big elephant beating scene! The hero elephant Rosie (bloody good job by Gary Johnson and Tai) is standing in a railroad car, Auguste (the circus owning psycho) enters with a big bullhook, door of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_car" rel="wikipedia" title="Railroad car">rail carriage</a> is closed to keep other circus workers/public/lead characters out. Doors open to reveal elephant laid flat out on her side, unconscious? with blood streaming from her wounds ! Jakob the Vet gets her a bucket of whisky which fixes her problems and she makes the night show without a limp or a mark on her ;-) Hollywood, huh?<br />
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The end scene where all the animals are turned loose is a bit of a mess. Jet Shaw had Brian McMillan's giraffe 'Stanley' on set and he is duplicated in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery" rel="wikipedia" title="Computer-generated imagery">CGI</a> so many times, you would swear that the show had a whole herd of giraffes. Rosie the elephant has already been established as a docile, calm, well-trained performer yet, in amongst all the chaos, she is standing rock-still in the middle of the ring, chained to a stake (this is vital to the plot, that she is chained to a stake, as she has to pull out the stake to kill 'Auguste')<br />
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ON A POSITIVE NOTE ...........<br />
Aside from the evil Auguste character, everyone employed by the circus is good with the animals and no big moral point is made out of the use/keeping of animals as they used to in the 1930s. That's how it was and they are the backdrop. The closing minutes of the film are devoted to Rosie Elephants further career with Ringlings (provoked 'Oooh's and Aaaahs' from the audience ;-) ............. and her subsequent happy retirement, along with the show's horses. If anyone tries to use the film as an anti-circus poster then I think our counter is that most of us are like Jakob the Vet ............. not Auguste the Psycho Circus Owner (don't answer that).<br />
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I came away with mixed emotions but wait with interest to see what all of you think of it ......... and how it fares with the general public in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20%28United%20Kingdom%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> & <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa" rel="lonelyplanet" title="USA">USA</a>.<br />
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Before this blog starts looking like Michael Sheen's fan site, this is the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2010/11/michael_sheen_coming_home.htm">link </a>for programme details. It can be viewed on BBC Wales channel, BBC iPlayer and through Sky. <br />
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