Madge Seymour interviewed by Mark St Leon in Mark St Leon circus collection (1985-1988) [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 558594
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Seymour, Madge, 1902-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Open for research; written permission required from interviewer for personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1988 July 17
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 142 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- Mark St Leon circus collection (1985-1988)
- Summary:
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Seymour describes her family circus background; early work with Perry's, Sole's; Seymour's Circus; transport; illegally adopted brother; management; St Leon's; Barton's financial difficulties during Depression; dance band drumming; other early circuses incl. Colleano's; starting up circuses; education; being dark-skinned; racism; performing at shearing sheds; rescue at Oakey mine, Qld.; mixing with locals; circus language; religion; Mo Aarons; Dummy Perry; Colleano's members; Goanna Salve; Golda Honey; St Leon's history; musicians; De Vere's; Antonio's performing dogs & monkeys; Zinga's; May Wirth; giving children away to circus; Charlie Eroni; women foregoing marriage to remain with circus; Phillip Eddie; circus matriachs; Darling River shipwreck; practical jokes; Wirths' history; Senorita Phillipina; Mahomets; Mackies; Hylands; settling in Charleville, Qld.; advertising; agents; motorised circuses; Decenoski; Kodama's; Charlie Miller; Boddy West; Trevor's; dental act; Denner's; circus names; decision to close Seymour's, 1916; conscription; FitzGerald's; her father's professional boxing match with Jimmy Governor; crossing flooded Sandy Tait River, Qld.; meeting Aborigines, Cooktown, Qld.
- Biography/History:
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Madge Seymour performed with Seymour's Family Circus up to WW1.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Greenslopes, Qld. on 17 July 1988.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 99 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- St. Leon, Mark, 1952-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Mark St. Leon circus collection (1985-1988).
This collection contains 10 records. - Copyright:
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- Until 2058 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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