institution
Winkler's Menagerie
Winkler's menagerie
also: зверинец Винклера
An invented traveling animal show/menagerie of the kind that toured provincial Russian towns; the sketch names a rival dentist as its staff dentist to imply the profession was no more dignified than a sideshow act.
Reading notes
- Comic Advertisements and Notices §4 Winkler's menagerie
A traveling animal show/menagerie of the kind that toured provincial Russian towns; naming a rival dentist as its staff dentist implies the profession was, in this milieu, no more dignified than a sideshow act.