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Samuel W. Gumpertz

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177:. Samuel started his career as a professional acrobat aged 9, with the Montgomery and Queen Circus after running away to join the circus, he took a part in every phrase of the industry, as an actor, producer and rough rider at Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, his career as an acrobat was short lived and Gumpertz resumed his schooling, however after his family relocated to San Francisco, three years thereafter, Gumpertz worked as a child actor at the Tivoli Opera House and as an agent traveled the world in search of indigenous people to perform in the popular ethnographic sideshows of the day, including Filipinos who were exhibited in an "Igorot Village", 322: 143: 327: 189:
Gumpertz was married to Evie Stetson in 1922, who was a member of Webber and Fields Troupe after her death, he remarried Edith L. Green, his secretary of 22 years. after she died, he married a third time, to Beatrice Frances Wood of Methuen, Massachusetts
119:, and after Ringling retired in 1932, he took over the circus in the capacity of vice-president and general manager. and responsible for merging Ringling Brothers with 393: 181:
and people from Borneo who performed as "wild men of Borneo," who Gumpertz reportedly 'acquired' by paying two hundred bags of salt to tribal leaders.
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Gumpertz born in 1868, to Herman and Elizabeth Gumpertz, his father was a lawyer and veteran of the
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Samuel W. Gompertz
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Dreamland
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John T. Ringling
Ringling Brothers
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Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
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"Samuel Gumpertz, Showman, 84, Dies; Former Aide to John Ringling Was Circus Acrobat at 9-- Built Dreamland Park"
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The American Amusement Park
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9780760309810
"Samuel W. Gumpertz"
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