5th Year March 8, 1976 Number 10

opening dates setAlthough several tent shows are already on tour, most of

the larger ones will not get started until next month. This isthe time for rumors and speculation, concerning a show's activityand its upcoming plans. For the most part the rumors are justthat "rumors" and nothing more. Yet, occasionally a rumor turnsout to be fact and as a result it is often good to take a carefullook at all such reports.

Spring is not far off andwith it comes the real beginningof the circus season. That meansall the shows will be on theand fans will once again be hapjyand anxious for a show to reach

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Seeks RecordLate last month high wire

walker Steve McPeak was stroll-ing about the cables that crossBoulder Dam, some 700 feet overthe dam. His evenings were spent

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LUCIO ZAMPERLA, rehearsinghis wild animal act in Spain,suffered serious face lacerationwhile putting his head into alion's mouth. More than 30stitches were required to closethe wound.

FRANK and BERNICE DEAN havesigned to tour with the Happy-time Circus for the summer sea-son on the West Coast.

MARY CULLEY, whose trainedpoodles are a west coast featureact, is recovering from a brokenfoot, as the result of a holidayshow accident.

KENNY TWOMEY, circus clown,celebrates his 12th birthday onMarch 10th.

THE BUMPEY FAMILY is nowappearing at the Hotel Jaraguain the Dominican Republic. Theyopened their four week stay onMarch 2nd.

JACK BURNETT, former pub-licity director for Holiday onIce has been hospitalized atAlexian Bros. Hospital, ElkGrove, 111. (Rm. 447).

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played Fort Wayne, Ind., theybrought in a good show. In ad-dition to the acts listed forthis show at Grand Rapids (seeCR for Feb. 16, 1976) they had:Pablo Rodrigues, aerial horizon-tal bars; Production number withThe Saturnaires, Miss ElizabethMiss Graciela, Miss Carry andMiss Carmen (3 webs and a hairhang); the Marahal camels andllamas; Milonga's horses; Wil-son's dogs; Bisbini's unsuppor-ted ladders; Cycling Wizzards;Roberts, aero; Cline's elephantgroup; Diano's elephants; Buchothe Mule; Angelo and Inga Bis-bini's new act and for a finalethey had the Friel-Smith Cannonnumber. Kaye Scheiman

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On Friday, Feb. 13,this reporter visited

with John Lewis, owner andmanager of the Lewis Bros. Cir-cus. John was passing throughMonroe (La.) on his way homefrom El Paso (Texas) where hehad obtained additional animalsfor his circus menagerie.

John is enthusiastic aboutthe upcoming season and his newshow. He feels the circus willbe the best show of its size onthe road.

"We'll hava the largest ar-ray of wild and exotic animalsfor a show of our size on theroad. The towns we play will gettheir money's worth, as we'llhave some animals not even foundin many of the larger zoos.

"We'll have a good cleanshow. Real circus. I came up un-der Hoxie Tucker, who I consid-er, is the best in the businesstoday, and that's the way we'lloperate.H

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The show will have a 5 manadvance crew, using window cardsplus lithos and the news media,along with a herald. One of theadvance men is Gene Christian,who really knows the business.

All of the equipment is ingood shape and has been paintedin circus style. The midway willinclude the side show/menagerie,with a 40 ft. banner line; asnake den, with 2k ft. banners;pony ride} concession stand andthe ticket wagon. Prices in ad-vance will be $1.00 and $1.50,while gate prices will be set at$1.50 and $2.00. Seating willhandle 1500 people and there areno reserved seats.

Among those set to tour onthe show are Mac McClosky, band;Dale Petros, animals; Bob Emriccproducing clown; Lee Spainn, an-imals; Gazeldor Cannon, The Men-tors, Eddie Hendricks and others

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Mike Swan, co-owner of the £>wan Bros. Circus, reports theshow's 1976 edition will be biggei and better than ever before.Formed in 1975 by Andy and Mike Swan, the show had a busy seasonplaying fairs, shopping centers and schools.

Many fans will recall that Like was on Fisher Bros, in 1974as "Sparky" the clown, and also handled many other duties. Andyhad gone back to college. After the '74 season Andy also went tocollege. It was at that time that the brothers formed their ownshow. All the physical equipment vas built and painted by the twoboys, although trucks and tents were purchased.

By the summer of '75 they had a one ringer on the road withboth boys doing all the set-up work, performing and the tear-downoperation.

Mike, who now uses the name "Hi Tops, the Clown" says thisyear's acts will be about the same, but much stronger. "Our highwire is now up to 15* and we are

10going to add a 10 ft. extension.This means the wire will be runfrom a center pole, with the actpresented above the tent.

Mike is now training a"Toby" which will be added tothe program. Both boys work inclown make-up - Andy in white-face, Mike in tramp.

An 18x30 ft. side show isto be carried and will include:magic, bed of nails, fire eat-ing, etc. Again each number willbe presented by the two brothers

During the winter they'vebeen working as "jesters" at theOld Eagle Theatre in Sacramento(Calif.) not far from theirhome.

STEVE McPEAK (Continued)in a hammock suspended from oneof the cables.

McPeak reportedly wantedto set a new record for thelength of time spent on an over-head cable. One report indicatedhe was seeking publicity for theTV show "Streets of San Francis-co" in which he is featured.

Last November, McPeak rodedam*him

cablesfine

a unicycle over theand that stunt costof $250. Early this year he at-tempted to walk a cable on theGolden Gate Bridge, but author-ities stopped him.

Security officials at thedam said they would arrest himwhen he came down. No one wasvolunteering to go up after him.

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BILLY BARTON-...CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK? SANDY DOBRITCH will produce

his own circus dates, under police sponsorship - one inthe deep south and one in the mid-west. Seems like oldtimes seeing the DOBRITCH title back in action.

Aerialist MYNA MOON returnsfor a third season with GATTI-CHARLES clowns SPIFF & PISSAencore with the Hunt Circus andthat show has enlarged its seat-ing.... ETHEL JOYCE takes hergreyhounds to Beatty-Cole (re-member when she was AERIALETTE?I do. She was great)....After afive year hiatus the EARLS willbe with Sells & Grey, doing twoacts with Billy also serving asringmaster.

CARLA WALLENDA took hersway pole act to the Enmett Kel-ly Circus in Puerto Rico. ISthat show going next to the Is-lands or Japan or Both?...MARIOWALLENDA apparently decidedagainst trouping with Royal Pal-ace Circus and is with RoyalHanneford...at least he's keep-ing it "Royal" ERV LANG'schimps on Mid-America -- openedMarch 5 in Brownsville, Texas.It's a good thing Texas is sucha big state with all the circus-es playing in it simultaneously!

I am happy to report that,by the time you read this, KAYFRANCIS HANNEFORD, will have hadher final treatments. Seems the>caught the malignancy in timeand Kay's road to recovery looksrosy indeed!

LEONARD NIMOY, of StarTrek fame, visited the DetroitShrine Circus. He is currentlytouring in SHERLOCK HOLMES....Those Mobiliner tires writtenabout last week develop bubblesalong the outer wall. TONY FOS-SETT just had to replace FOUR.....Talk about off-beat "casting1

Can ANYONE believe ME as DanielBoone? You can't convince me hewore THAT much fringe OR thatmuch fur!

BILLY WOOD'S the FlyingDells features the marvelousflying skills of wife, Betty,whchot only does a double somer-sault but a double lay-out som-ersault with pirouette return.

Billy and Betty can't de-cide whether to move to Sarasotaor to L.A. "I get lots of moviestunt work in L.A.," says Betty."Bobby Yerkes is always callingme. They need stunt girls whocan DO something. But...they'realways making a small boy out ofme!" Betty shrugged. "Everythingis a variation of a spongeplunge. In the TOWERING INFERNOI jumped from a window...boy!when those flames hit, I jumped*.'

Poor ROSIE ALEXANDER...ontop of Fay's not being able to

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he Hits onZiggy, the renegade elephant

who died at Brookfield Zoo lastOctober at the age of 55, stilllives in the research labs ofthe University of Illinois Medi-cal Center. Doctors there arestudying the 13,000 Ib. animal'sfeeding structures.

The university's College ofDentistry has obtained Ziggy'shead, neck, jaw muscles, jawpoints, tongue* larynx and theend of his trunk. "These thingsare priceless," says Dr. E.LloydDuBrul, who heads the oral ana-tomy department.

By studying Ziggy's musclesand glands, says Dr. DuBrul, wecan gain an insight into how thehuman system works.

Ziggy came to the BrooK-field Zoo in 1936. He spent theyears from 1941 to 1971 chainedin a building. His skeleton isbeing reconstructed for displayat the Field Museum.

.... Kaye Scheiman

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HARRY ROOKS, long-time cir-cus man, who trouped with manyshows and most recently was withRoyal Bros. Circus. He died inmid-February at St. Joseph Hos-pital in Paris, Texas.

MiscellaneousThe Royal Lichtenstein Cir-

cus, billed as the world's small-est, recently played at Redlands(Calif.) where they had to cuttheir performance short due toa sudden rainstorm.

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HANNEFORDS7 DATES SOLIDThe Greenville (S.C.) Hejaz

Shrine Circus has been re-signedby the Royal Hanneford Circusand 1977 will mark the thirdyear the show has played theengagement.

The flu epidemic that fol-lowed the show on its 750 milemove from Detroit hospitalizedRosa Gibbs and Mrs. Kate Hanne-ford. Rosa was released beforethe date was concluded, but Mr*.Hanneford was held for an addi-tional week.

The Hanneford Circus playedCharleston (S.C.) on Feb. 27-29for the Omar Shrine Temple, thesixth repeat year. An extra Sun-day show was added, sold out tothe Red & White Grocery StoreChain. Dave (Midge) Burnham andWally & Cheryl did four days ofadvance publicity for the dateand, in Charleston, as in allother major towns, a Press Partywas held prior to the opening.

Other major dates being si-gned for 1976 and 1977 will beannounced soon. Among the majordates scheduled for 1977 is theAl Sirat Grotto Circus in Cleve-land.

The program in Greenvilleran as follows:

Slide for life and sponge plur^Overture - Charles Schlarbaum,

musical directorRazzle Dazzle - Ernie McLain

doing vocals

Tajana - trained tigersThe Winns - inclined walkDisplay with Sulo Sisters on

globes; Ramos, risley; Bon-wellys, pole voltaige

Salute to Hollywood - aerialWally & Cheryl - comedyDisplay with Signer Rai; Baron-

ess Von Frost, Morris & Co.— illusions

Tony Fossett - bounding ropeThis is My Country - spec— Intermission —

The Flying SteelesPlanet of the Apes with the

Astros - aerial motorcycleElephants - Gibbs (3); Hoxie

(4); Hanneford (4)Tongo & Irene - gorilla parodyHanneford Riding ActPrince Najvez - aerialistThe Rocket CarFinale

The show was cut down forCharleston since the entire cir-cus had to be presented on astage. The Winns did their wirewalk from the stage to the bal-cony, over the audience. Onlyone elephant act was used, al-though Bobby Gibbs was there wilhan elephant ride and petting zooin front of the auditorium. Onlytwo production numbers - Planetof the Apes and the spec - werepresented. The other two numbersremained in the trucks until thethe Cincinnati Shrine date com-ing up on March 14-21.

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ROUTESCircus Vargas

to Mar. 14 Houston, Texas

Clyde Bros. CircusMar. 9-14 St. Paul, Minn.

Cole All Star TV CircusMar. 8 Waterloo, N.Y.

9 Dundee10 Sodus11 Newfield12 Ithaca

Tommy Hanneford CircusMar. 9-10 Jackson, Tenn.

13 Muncie, Ind.

Holiday HippodromeMar. 8 Wilson, N.C.

9 Louisburg10 Raleigh11 Burlington12 Durham13 Mt. Airy14 Pulaski, Va.

Kaye Cont'l Circusto Mar 21 Chicago, 111.

Pan American CircusMar 10-14 Miami, Fla.

Polack Bros. CircusMar 13-14 Albany, N .Y .

Ringling-Barnum - Blue UnitMar. 9-14 Richmond, Va.

Ringling-Barnum - Red UnitMar. 9-10 Savannah, Ga.

12-14 Columbia, S.C.

John Strong CircusMar. 8 Solvang, Calif.

9 Santa Maria10 Atascadero11 Morro Bay

OTHER ROUTES

American Freedom TrainMar. 10-14 Oklahoma City, Okla

Black Watch TroupeMar. 8 Champaign, 111.

9 Indianapolis, Ind.10 Cincinnati, Ohio11 East Lansing, Mich12 Richfield. Ohio13 Toledo

NRoyal Lipizzan ShowMar. 9-10 Austin, Texas

12-13 Tulsa, Okla.14 Muskogee

St. Patrick's Day ParadeMar. 14 San Francisco, Calif,

Lawrence Welk ShowMar 8 Lakeland, Fla.

9 St. Petersburg10 Jacksonville11 Baton Rouge, La.12 Monroe13 Lake Charles14 Houston, Texas

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FRANK RUSSO, of the Hart-ford Civic Center, has been named assistant director of thatfacility.

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Bull RunsAn elephant, spooked by the

siren of a passing ambulance,ran back to its truck, during anelephant ride operated by Bobby3ibbs, on the parking lot of themunicipal auditorium at Charles-ton, S.C. The incident was fur-ther induced by the sudden turn-ing off of the parking lot lightsystem.

The five riders (four chil-dren and one adult) slipped offas the elephant ran, then tumb-led in a grassy area. None ofthe riders were injured.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE!BILL BRICKLE's Poodle Fantasy wishes

all producers, agents and show personnelto understand that he and the StebbingsCircus have severed all business relationsand that his act is in no way connectedto any part of the Stebbings Circus.

All advance publicity of this act ap-pearing with that circus is false, thisincludes information and material appear-'ing in several Florida papers.

The act is contracted to play numer-ous Park, Fair and Shrine dates for 1976.

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their area.

Among those tented shows which arealready on the road are: Mid-America,Franzen Bros., Dailey Bros., Fisher Bros,John Strong, Stebbings and Circus Vargas.

Opening dates already announced forother shows include: Hoxie Bros - Mar. 23at Miramar, Fla. Carson & Barnes - Mar.

1 at Austin, Texas. Royal Wild West -Mar. 20 at Valdosta, Ga. King Bros. - Apr.4 at Apopka, Fla. Beatty-Cole - Apr. 5 atBrunswick, Ga. Sells (, Gray - Apr. 16 atCocoa Beach, Fla. Lewis Bros. - Apr. 22 atBridgeport, Ala.

Jackson, TennesseeTHE COLISEUMMarch 9-10

Muncie, IndianaFIELD HOUSEMarch 13

JOHNNY RIVERS was one of those attending the recent Mid-WestFair Association meetings at Tampa, Fla.

TOM DONOHO and the Polack elephant "Opal" were featured onTV's "Truth or Consequences" program the night of March 2nd.

CLARK MecDermott and his "Cold Nose Five" act is currentlyworking out of his California home.

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Mirce/JaneoufWynne Enterprises, Inc.,

of Dallas, Texas, has agreed toassume operations of Lion CountySafari Park in Grand Prairie(Texas) for 1976.

Circus Circus Casino, ofLas Vegas, Nev., is selling theold hand carved carousel they'vehad for years. The asking priceis $100,000.

Recent newspaper reportsindicate the Florida State Uni-versity and officials of theBeatty-Cole circus have beendiscussing a change in the showownership.

In Mrmoriam "

CHIEF WILLIAM RED FOX(105) an authority on the LittleBig Horn Massacre, died at Cor- 'pus Christi, Texas, on March 2.He joined Buffalo Bill's WildWest Show at Chicago in 1893 andspent 15 years with the show. Hemade 107 movies

Show ActsActs seen working at the

Old Chicago Mall at the end ofFebruary included:

Saul Shafton, The CrazySailors, Antonucci's Chimps, MsApril, Miss Cheri, Veno Venito,Cleo, The Burketts, Johnny Lux-em, Arwood's Dogs, Stagg McMannThe Kellys, Tony S, Chris andErnie Johnson.

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BILLY BARTON (Continued)

hear her when she's inside thecomedy car, he wears ear plugs.....JERRY MAAS, moving his truck,struck the TIFFANY'S trailerknocking Charles and Susie outof bed. Even so....his recklessdriving is as nothing comparedto ANITA KEPPO on a bicycle.

Performers with Royal Han-neford arrived in Greenville(SC) after a 3 week stint in De-troit sick to a person with flu.It was the WORST flu epidemicI've ever seen strike one show.

If the audience could seethe various people who are be-hind those masks in PLANET OFTHE APES, they'd never believein Santa Claus again NowHANS WINN and his troupe arewearing them in the aerial mo-torcycle act.

HERNANDEZ Troupe soldtheir horses to Tommy Hanneford- sale arranged through GUNNARAMANDIS SIGNOR RAI remadeDame KATE HANNEFORD's gold se-quin gown from Eaves....IRISKEPPO's Mack Sennett BathingCostumes that zip! zip! off totransform the girls into BusbyBerkeley Goldiggers deserves an•j IJA T* fl

CHARLES BERTINI the newbandleader with Beatty-Cole....DIONNES made Rochester for M&M.

TEDDY STEWART back in Flor-ida resting his shoulder..READ-ER'S DIGEST: CHARLIE BAUMAN's"Tiger, Tiger" is a popular newentry in the circus reader'scircle Alistair McLean's"Circus" is not.

MINI REVIEW: NBC's Ring-ling Special was typical of pre-ceding telecasts: part enter-tainment and part bore. Whenwill NBC dispense with the irri-tating "canned applause" andthen pan to an audience sittinglike a painted backdrop? NO actor circus I've ever seen re-ceives such CONSTANT reception!

Highlights of "Highlightsof RBBB" were the accomplishedperformances by BOTTCHER's PO-LAR BEARS, BAUMAN's TIGERS, andthe ever-sensational FLYING GA-ONAS And, at least NONE ofthese acts was yanked into placeor supported by life-lines orsafety belts.

The KING CHARLES Troupemay be a novelty but the novel-ty has begun to wear thin. Theriding acts seemed heavy-footedand clumsy. DON FOOTE's cos-tumes (what little we saw) wereas always, colorful and firstrate.

LEO MASCITTO, bandleaderwith Garden (and now with thatshow) arranged the "spec" musicand the overture for Royal Han-neford CHUCK MILAN is nowwith the FLYING STEELES BOB-BY GIBBS had an elephant rideand petting zoo at the Charles-ton, SC, circus date....HOXIE'selephants were in Greenville.

That tent circus, now car-rying "grift" might do well tohave a talk with another tentshow owner who tried it (brief-ly) last season to learn the

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Shrine CircusThe annual Zor Temple Shrine Circus, at Madison, Wise., was

produced by William Kay for Feb. 20-24. The show, which drew well;was presented at the Dane County Memorial Coliseum. ______

Acts featured in the showwere:

William Golden - wild animalsBagheera, the white tigerKurt & Kalyea -hanging perchPrincess Mafalda - sword balanoKatinka's PoodlesKaylena and her birdsBaby Circus ElephantThe Zamperla Family •• ridingThe Flying DellsKlauser's Bears - Herta KlauserThe Jupiters - aerialistsAl's Lemonzeen - comedy carThe Atos Troupe - trampolineJohn Cuneo, Jr. - elephantsThe Wallendas - high wire

The circus clowns were:Al Ross BlinkoChester and Joe ShermanBubba Hastings

The circus staff includes:

William Kay - producer/announc.Patricia Kay - talent coordin.John Malett - musical directorSue Ossmann - secretaryPatti Maloof - secretaryEnrico Bogino - superintendentRuss Emerson - advertisingBob Reldren - special lightingBruce Preem - wardrobeHal Hastings - transportationSusan Cullen - Fla. secretary

76 PlansAfter a winter in Clear

Lake (Mich) where he took dres-sage lessons from Clarence Hast-ings, circus man Dave Knodererreports he is ready to performwith his new menage horse "Bin-go", which was purchased fromBob Grubb.

Dave will tour with FisherBros, for a few months this yearthen joins Royal Bros, for thesummer season. In addition tohis menage horse, Dave will pre-sent his Palomino Pony libertyact in the show. He will also beplaying his calliope on the mid-way, and doing bag pipes, Punch,and magic in the side show.

Knoderer has a special CMCvan with space for all his ani-mals, plus feed and 120 gallonsof water. His living quartersare in the front compartment.

Theo Wells

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

hard way that the "heat" justisn't worth it.

BILLY's DILLYS: The onething that never plays to anempty house is a sense of humor.

See you down the road, luvs.