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"MS F A V O R I T E CIRCUS

6th Year October 10, 1977 Number 41

Pay Tax Or ...The tax collector threatened an attachment of all show property in a confrontation at

Davenport, Iowa, last month with the TNT & Royal Olympic Circus. The unusual situation de-veloped over the question of sales tax for an entertainment medium • the circus.

The circus plays only indoor shopping mall dates and does not charge an admission forits performances. They work for a flat fee, paid to them by the shopping malls.

The tax people charged the fee paid by the mall "constituted" admission and was thustaxable. They ordered the circus to pay a 3% sales tax to the state for its engagement in Daven-port as well as for a previous date at Cedar Falls. If the tax was not pay they were warne that allequipment would be attached by the sheriffuntil such time as payment was made.

The circus played Overland, Kansas,during the time the area was devastated by aflood, which wiped out hundreds of homesand business firms. As a result attendance wasdown and the date was one of the "poor" oneson the show route. However, they were re-

booked for the coming year.

Attendance at both Denver and Davenportwas above expectations with the malls jammedfull of people for each performance. SROcrowds were also on hand for shows presentedby the circus in Sioux Falls.

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SHOW VISITThe Holiday Hippodrome, sponsored by theVFW, presented an excellent performance atthe Beatrice (Nebr) City Auditorium on Sept.21st.

The program included: Walter & Ingrid, platespinning; Bradbury & Co., illusions; Paulette,fire batons; The Sherrys, roll ing globes; TheHoues, juggl ing; Floyd Bradbury, balloons.

In the second half were: Al Antonucci, chimps(2) and dogs (2); Myro Alberti & Co., hand bal-ancing; Bradbury & Co., Metamorphosis i l lu-sion; Rianos Duo, slack wire. Floyd Bradburyplayed the organ and also acted as MC, whileSherri Bradbury played the drums.

The Sherry's number on the rolling globes (pain-ted like an 8 ball) was one of the most unusualacts of its type which we have ever seen, and itincluded many new features.

Floyd Bradbury's illusions were also a great actand included the popular Zig-Zag, which is evenmore mind-boggling when seen in person.

Big ShowActs featured with the Jose Cole Circus, spon-sored by the Variety Club, at Grand Rapids,Mich., on Sept. 23-25 included:

Al Ross, come-in clown; Spec; Lawrence Grant,lions; Doubleday & Co., aerial gorilla comedy;Clowns; The Patricks, rola bola; Great Arturo,head balancing trapeze; Joyce Rice, whips andropes; Miss Lydia (Burkett), single trapeze;King's Mixed Animals; Roy's Magic; The Fly-ing Viennas; Jose Cole, onfe finger stand; TheDavisons, Joyce Rice and Maryse Begary, jugg-ling; Los Comancheros, double trapeze; TheBurketts, aerial perch; Al Ross, break-awaybike; Tony Steele, sponge plunge; Walt King'sclePhants- .. Lisa Stewart

Visitors at the show included the writer, LarryChartiers, Manhattan, Kans,; Cliff and DorothyDay, South Omaha and Ron San ford. Follow-ing the performance many of the show folksvisited my home to look at circus films andto spend a few hours just visiting.

. Bill Green

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ROUTESArabia Shrine Circus

to Oct. 16 Houston, Texas

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros.Oct. 10-12 Columbia, Tenn.

13-16 Memphis

Carson & Barnes CircusOct. 10 Oxford, Ala.

11 Northport12 Hamilton13 Aberdeen, Miss.15 Vemon, Ala.16 Haleyville

Circus VargasOct. 10-12 Haverford, Pa.

13-17 Washington, DC

Hall & Christ Circus Uniqueto Oct. 23 Dallas, Texas

Royal Hanneford CircusOct. 14-16 Johnson City, Tenn,

Hoxie Bros. CircusOct. 10 Shaw AFB, S.C.

11 Charleston AFB12 Hunter AAF, Ga.13 Fort Stewart14 Femandina Bch, Fla.15 Palatka16 Gainesville

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' Outstanding| Feature

Acts!

Hoxi-.-'s Great American CircusOct. 10 Collinsville, Va.

12 Kings Mountain, N.C.13 Woodruff14 Winsboro15 Denmark

• End of the Season -

King Bros. CircusOct. 10 Bay St. Louis, Miss.

11 Ocean Springs12 Bayou La Batre, Ala.13 Chipley, Fla.14 Panama City15 Perry16 Belle view

Mahi Shrine CircusOct. 12-16 Miami, Fla.

Ringling-Bamum - Blue UnitOct. 11-12 Carbondale, 111.

14-16 Champaign

Ringling-Barnum - Red Unitto Oct. 16 Denver, Colo.

Royal Danish Cirousto Oct. 15 Halifax, N.S.

Sells & Gray CircusOct. 10 Neodeska, Kans.

11 Fredonia12 Ponce City, Okla.13Pryor14 Muskogee15 Sallisaw16 Wewoka

John Strong CircusOct. 10 Marina, Calif.

11 Lodi12 Ceres13 Han ford14 Porterville

15-16 Bakersfield

OTHER ROUTES

Century 21 Shows - Blue UnitOct. 10-15 Lanett, Ala.

- End of the Season •

Century 21 Shows • Red UnitOct. 10-15 Meridian, Miss.

James H. Drew ShowsOct. 10-15 Monroe, Ga.

The Gong ShowOct. 10 Toronto, Ontario

Lee Grabel Illusion ShowOct. 10 Salinas, Calif.

11 Monterey12 Santa Cruz13 Watsonville

14-15 San Jose

Magic Time USA - Prof. MillerOct. 14 Nethuen, Mass.

15 Burlington16 So. Portland, Me.

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BILLY BARTON. -GEORGE HUBLER's prop and concession trailercaught fire on the jump to his Rochester (NY) date(Sept. 10). Several thousand dollars worth of equip-ment was lost in the fire, including ring curbs, con-cession stock and light cables. A trucker, who was al-so a Shriner, spotted the smoke and flagged Georgedown. Other truckers stopped, getting out fire extin-guishers. From 1:30 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. they foughtthe blaze which had started when a spring broke andfriction from the wheel box ignited the trailer floor-ing. "The fire department arrived too late, as usual,"George told me by phone, "but the trailer can be sal-vaged."ON THE SCENE WITH ROYAL HANNEFORD: thefall season kick off at Muncie (Ind) on Sept. 15, wasfollowed by Elkhart on the 17th and 18th. Biz atboth spots was very good. Augmenting the show inElkhart were the WAZZANS and the G RE AT HU-BERTO JERRY MAAS took delivery on a newCountry-Aire trai ler. . . TOMMY HANNEFORDcelebrated his birthday with a huge party featuringa cake depicting his elephant truck and "Chandra's"rear end framing the side truck door. He receivedmany gifts and MUCH razzon on this, his 50th year..AERIALETTA II made an auspicious debut with newcostuming, new music, all new presentation and rou-tines, and is a sensation. She is working her "Jo Annand Sunny" seal act in a platinum blonde wig andnobody recognizes her, not even TONY STEELE andhis wife who were visiting, or the N ICCOLIN IS whohave just returned from abroad where their two sonsare working in Israel with a chimp act. .. MAR -QUEEN S C H L A R B A U M was spotted sitting in theseats during a performance "grading" school papersfor her school which has now re-opened . . . TAJANAhas added 3 sit-up tigers on 3 revolving mirro balls andit looks great, goes over big. . . . PETER HAUBNERis doing his forward somersault in the riding act, justprior to the "horse-to-horse back". .. WALLY andC H E R Y L continue to be two of the funniest clownsin the business DWIGHT HANSEN has complet-ly remodelled the interior of his Aitstream. . . JAMESZOPPE and his new bride, MAFALDA, were seenvisiting in Elkhart, also K A Y E SCHIEMAN, the own-ers of FISHER BROS., and the HORTOBAGYIS . . .Outstanding in the Hanneford program is the newlyrevamped elephant number featuring a girl on everyelephant (8 yr. old Nellis on the smallest elephant)with striking new costumes c rea ted by talented SE-NOR RAI - and his new costumes, which he made

himself, are pure Las Vegas - he has to be the "Lib-erace" of the Circus Ringmasters!

SNAPSHOTS: ETHEL JENNIER ducks into MayoClinic at the end of the Beatty tour to have her facelifted preparatory to next season's whirlwind trek withGeorge Hubler, Sandy Dobritch, Sam T. Polack andRoyal Hanneford, to name a few.. . SLICK VALEN-TINE has retired, plans to get his license and be anagent. . . EMIL and DEBBIE GOETSCHI are now inCalifornia . . . They played the Reno date for theStebbings/Polack show.... The Beatty band boasts a3 legged dog as their "mascot" - it's called "NellieTripod" . . . EDNA ANTES has returned to the Beat-ty show after the death of her mother. Our condo-lences to Mrs. Antes. . . ARNOLD MALEY, now inhis 80's, tells me he will "positively" retire after thisyear. BILLY GRIFFIN tells me NOT to believe him -we'll see. . . RON and MITZIE are reported to be go-ing with Circus Vargas in 1978... LONI VAN VOOR-DEN phoned to tell me how she broke her wrists onCV but I was on the road and missed her call. Sorryabout BOTH, Loni ! . . . GEORGE HUBLER addsRaleigh to his route, playing their Nov. 5-6...PRINCE NAJVEZ is center ing the Royal HannefordAerial Ballet on most of the big da tes . . . MARYRUTH HERRIOTT is with Hoxie's Great AmericanCircus . . . The Dobritch Int'l Circus day and datedRingling in Detroit the week of Sept. 19th .. BRIANMAAS has developed into a very good show drummer.

I think KEITH KILLINGER was putting us on abouthis so-called retirement! The man has been super busyall season. He writes the Kool Aid Circus was a suc-cess on its 11 day run, plays Tampa next, and mayhave a long run in 1978. Meanwhile Keith is playingfairs and Shrine dates for EDDIE ZACCHINI , also ar-ranging music for ETHEL JENNIE R's new grey houndpresentation next season.

ON JULY 30th VASHEK & KATHY played a benefitperformance in Johnstown (Pa) to help raise moneyfor the f lood victims. The show was organized byKathy's dad, BILL CASSIDY. None of the perform-ers were paid, the show was open to the public by do-nation, with all proceeds handled by the Red Crossfor the homeless. I've always said Vashek and Kathyare swell kids and THIS proves i t !

TOMMY HANNEFORD bought several very expen-sive legs of lamb which he stored in the f reezer withthe t iger meat. When he went to get it he discoveredit had been fed to the tigers !

See you down the road, luvs.

October 10, 1977

FRANK ELISCU, circus sculpturer, has hiswork on display at the Ringling Museum in Sar-asota, Fla.HUGO ZUNIGA, juggler, worked out some jugg-ling routines with members of the famous Chi-nese Circus Revue when the group visited theRingling-Bamum theme park in Florida.

THE ESQUEDA TROUPE and TOM UPTONwere among the visitors seen on the lot at theGatti show in Dixon (Calif) last week.

HAROLD RONK, RBBB circus announcer,will be the first speaker in a series of lectures"Circus People Look At the Circus" scheduledat the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, startingon Nov. 1st.EARL and BETTY SCHMID have purchased thethe Paul Caldwell circus collection. A large partof the collection was obtained by Paul from Ro-land Butler (Sparks, RBBB, etc. publicity direc-tor). The purchase was negotiated throughPaul's widow.

Ads NamedThe Franzen Bros. Circus offers a truly enter-taining and delightful show which is enjoyed byyoungsters and adults alike. When visited atWanatah and Sharpsville (Ind.) the show's pro-gram featured:

Dennis Michaels as Freddy the clown, platespinning; Wayne Franzen, lions (3); Mandi Mic-haels, web; Freddy with Cecil, the donkey;Wayne Franzen, with Tonto, pick-out routine;Freddy and Bobo Michaels, balance gag;.WayneFranzen, goats; Curtis Cainan, wire and juggling;Freddy, egg magic; Lynn Michaels and the Bar-ker Family of dogs; Freddy and the balloon;Bobo Michaels, swinging revolving ladder;Wayne Franzen, liberty horse Tonto; CurtisCainen, fire eating and juggling and WayneFranzen, elephant.

Kaye Scheiman

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The Big EIt became apparent that Wayne McCary had puttogether another winner this year for the East-ern States Exposition at West Springfield, Mass,when his Royal International Show opened onSept. 14th for a five day run at the biggest fairin the east. McCary, who is also Executive As-sistant on the administrative staff of the Expo-sition, has been producing circuses for the fairfor eight years. The show, a special unit custom-tailored for the Big E, included a shimmeringarray of some of the greatest names and besttalent in our business.

Exposition officials credit the circus as one ofthe major factors that drew unprecedentedcrowds to the fair during its run, despite severaldays of bad weather. An all-time single-day at-tendance record for the fair was set on Sunday,Sept. 18th when 152,000 people came throughthe gates. Audiences for the circus itself werelimited to the 6,000 seat coliseum, but the showplayed to a total of about 66,400 turning awayliterally thousands for ten of its twelve perfor-mances.

Big E Publicity Director, Betsi Taylor, reportsthat Karl Wallenda should be credited with alarge share of the show's promotional success.Betsi conservatively estimates that Karl made atleast thir ty-f ive press conferences and media in-terviews while he was in the Springfield area.

The performance itself was smooth and well-balanced, averaging about an hour and twelveminutes running time. The overture was a spe-cial Boom-Boom Browning arrangement of Je-sus Christ Superstar.Guy Gossing's tigers were the opening act, pro-ving once again that this is one of the most ex-ci t ing and unpredictable cage acts in the busi-

ness. Next the spotlights swept into the girdersto pi; kup the Reginine Duo cradle act (Sasa Ar-mor and Jim Nell).

Then came the Vidbell pony drill, the whiteponies Itfoking like glistening cotton candy un-der the four carbon-arc spots. The Dymeks,from Poland, a trio consisting of two muscularmen and a very attractive girl top-mounter^ pro-vided one of the most polished flexible balance-pole routines this reporter has seen in manyyears.

Sir Victor Julian and his Little Stars gave thesort of performance here that justifies their in-ternational pre-eminence among animal acts.

Another high point in the show was the FlyingArmors, as might be expected. They were fol-lowed by Vidbell's elephants, and the show clo-sed with the special magic of Karl Wallenda andthe Great Wallendas.

Boom Boom Browning, with an eleven pieceband, lived up to his reputation and then some,as musical director. Ken Matoon was in chargeof the building staff and lighting crew. Prop andrigging boss was Roland Cody. Charley Van Bus-kirk was announcer and performance director,and the audio-technicians worked under LouBianco.

Visitors during the five days included GunnarAmandis, Ian Garden, and delegations fromIBM and several fairs and regional expositionsthroughout the U. S. and Canada.

One aspect of the show that received consider-able favorable public comment was the one ringformat that Wayne McCary favors for nearly allof his productions. McCary is currently settingacts for the Royal Int'l Circus 1978 spring tourof Northern New England Shrine dates.

Charley Van Buskirk

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Big DayMonday, Sept. 26th, will go down in history formembers of the Harold Barnes Tent No. 110,CFA, of Springfield, Ohio. That was the daythey were called upon for assistance by the D.T.&I. Railroad, to assume the watering of animalson the Ringling-Barnum Blue Unit train at astop in Springfield.

The 37 car train was due in at 11:30 a.m. for awatering stop to last an hour and a half, but dueto unforseen problems, late departure, delay incrossing over the B&O tracks near Lima and onecar suffering "sticky brakes", the show train pul-led into town at 12:50 p.m. Fifteen fans, includ-ing the female members of the tent were wait-ing to assist in their duties as outlined by CFACentral Vice President Jim Saunders. They hadbeen broken down into two groups, one to assistin the watering operation and the other to assistin crowd control. An estimated crowd of 500Springfielders jammed the railroad yards, in-cluding school bus loads of youngsters waitingto see their first circus train. This marked thefirst time that an RBBB train had stopped inSpringfield since it showed here in 1954.

The fans were assisted by Spfld Twp No. 2 Vol-unteer Fire Dept., who supplied the much need-ed fire hose to complete the operation. Fourstock cars of elephants and horses were wateredas well as two tunnel cars of tigers and polarbears. While the watering operation was takingplace rail employees were busy correcting thebrake problem on the circus flat car.

The whole operation was completed in an hourand 35 minutes and the train was on its way to

Fair DateAmong those working with the Stebbing Roy-

al European Circus at the fair in Richmond, Va.were: Virginia Lee Fenton, organist; ChuckGomes, drummer; Ben DeWayne, elephants;Carl Linares, poodles; Vicki and Carol Stebbingaerialists; the Tabaks, aerial perch; RobertStebbing and John's daughter, elephant; Johnand Vicki Stebbing, chimps, The concesseions

and Vicki Stebbing; chimps. The concessioncrew included: Don and Mary Bullitt, plus Ber-nie and Gloria Biglin.

Visitors at the circus have included: Carla Wai-lenda, Rusty and Rita, Ted Burdick, Mudcat,Mory Fine, Gerry Kaye, Al Mandy, Tom Peekaand Woody. The latter folks are all former cir-cus butchers.

Nashville, Tenn., The circus officials were verypleased with the ease of the operation, the railofficials were happy to be available and thefans were more than happy to assist — that iswhat the CFA is all about!

Fans who assisted in the'operation included:Jim and Pat Saunders, Allen Brewer, Warrenand Donna Downing, John and Sharon Knight,Charlie DeWein, John O'Toole, Bob McDonald,Walt Gregg, Harrison Laybourne and Al Cono-ver. Many thanks to these people who gave oftheir time to assist the circus. Newspapers andTV crews on the scene dubbed us as the "ThreeRing Welcome Wagon."

Jim Saunders

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MARIA RASPUTIN BERN (77) died at herhome in Silverlake, Calif , (near Los Angeles)after suffering a breath period of troubledbreathing. She was the only surviving child ofthe Mad Monk Rasputin. She worked as an ani-mal trainer in London before coming to the U.S. in 1935 to appear with Ringling-Bamum andHagenbeck-Wallace Circus. She left the circusafter she was mauled by a bear. In recent yearsshe was a popular guest on radio and TV talkshows and authored a book about her father.

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Acts SetNovelty acts booked by Simone Finner Enter-prises for the new Barry Ashton Revue open-ing at Cal-Neva Ix>dge, Lake Tahoe, Neveda, inearly November include Joey Jordan, juggler,and Lucien Meyer and Friends, ice-skatingchimps. .—.

show programWe caught all three shows of the Royal Hanne-ford Circus at Elkhart, Ind., oh Sept. 17-18 andenjoyed the program. Music was provided byChuck Schlarbaum and Gerry and Brian Maas,while the announcing was handled by SenorRai.

The program featured: Aerial display with thetwo Ramos hair hangs, plus Kim and Sharon onladders; Tajana's tigers; the Wazzans, comedyladder; Aerial ballet with four girls on web andfeaturing Magdalena Ramos; JoAnn Jennierand Sunny, the seal; Senor Rai, magic; HerbieWeber, slide for l i fe ; Hanneford riding act; theWazzans, trampoline; Molly & Dolly, washer-women; Karen's Doves; Ramos, one fingerstand; Isabella, balancing; Ramos, one fingerstand; Miss Aerialetta II, trapeze; The Wazzans,acrobats; The Oscarians, risley and the circus

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The Rolling Diamonds, sensational rollerskating act can be contacted by writing:John Hansen, 3070 - 8th St., Sarasota,Fla. 33580. Their phone number is:(813)366-5336.

The program, offered by the Thrill Circus, pro-duced by Paul V. Kaye for the Los AngelesCounty Fair at Pomona (Sept. 26-Oct. 2) fea-tured: Jack Cervone, musical director; HarryThomas, tigers (12); The Jupiter Trio, triplewide trapeze; Clowns; Valdez, juggling; DeMille, wire; Torinos Trio, juggling; Aerial bal-let featuring Ramon, Arturo and La Gran Ro-bert; Katinka's Kanines; the Lance Link chimps;Jeffrey's California Seals; Clowns; the AntonioTrio, Spanish Horses; the Four Flying Ramos;the Flying Russells; the Hollywood Elephants,featuring Baby Judy, the African elephant; theGreat Valentino, high wire; Mireilles, trampo-line; the Eight Hortobagyis, teeterboard; theFergus, trampoline; The Nock Brothers, twinsway poles.

Announcements were handled by John Day,and Clown Alley consisted of: Smiley Daly, Jr.producing clown, Roger Arroyo, Linda Daly,Mike Davis, Greg Dean, Tim Hill, Neal Kay andKen Miller.

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GEORGE HUBLER will drive to Indianapolis(Ind) with EARL CREAGER and GENE HAER-LIN, Chairman and Assistant Chairman of Day-ton's Antioch Shrine Circus, The trio will attendthe Shrine Imperial Circus Seminar. Hubler alsoplans to attend a scheduled Circus Producer'sAssociation meeting.

FRANK P. GEORGE has some back issues ofWhite Tops magazine he wants to trade. He isinterested in obtaining films of Ringling-Bamumunder canvas. Write him at: 3 Halidon Terrace,Newport, R. I., 02840.

DON WASHBURN and PHIL SHEAR workedseveral dates with the American Cont'l Circusbefore taking their clown numbers to the Dr.Pepper Circus at Dallas, Texas.

HARRY MUELLER, who lives in Cupertino,Calif.,sgot his start in the circus world as a smallboy then from 1942-1949 he published theCircus Albumn regularly.

Show Organist, Comedy Chimps, Poodles,Announcer. Wilson, Box 1167, Concord,N. C. 28025. (704) 786-4536

In MemoriamMRS RUTH HILL (65) daughter of the latemovie and circus star Tom Mix, died in CorpusChristi, Texas, on Sept. 22nd. She had been illfor only a short time. She lived in Corpus Chris-ti since 1954.

WILLIAM L. (Bill) OLIVER (81) died at theElks Home in Bedford, Va. on Sept. 18th. Hewas bom in Shelbyville, 111., and was a mem-ber of the Bill Poster's Union for 35 years. Hejoined Gollmar Bros. Circus in 1914 and work-ed with all the major shows in the country. Atone time he worked as manager for the HiltonSisters (Siamese twins) and the Georgia Min-strels. He also operated the Dilley and Oliver .outdoor advertising company and Conrath'sAdvertising Co. For some time he served as ad-vertising car manager for Hagenbeck-Wallace.

ROBERT E. BAUDY, Owner-DirectorP.O. Box 132Center Hill, Florida 33514

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ournBILL BRICKLE has added the black poodle"Rosita" to his show act. The poodle was for-merly with Paulette's Peerless Pups FLORAGERALDO, of the Flying Columbians is pre-gnant....THE CHANDLERS, THE EASTWOODSand TOM SINK will work a six week Holiday'our this winter with "The Holiday Magic Cir-jus."....JIMMY HALL, JOHN (Tiny) PHIL-LIPS and MIKE NAUGHTON visited HoxieBros. Circus....THE CHANDLERS are set towork with BILL BRICKLE'S Fantasyland Cir-cus in The Carolinas and Georgia Hoxie Bros.Circus is sidewalling it for the rest of the tour....Talent for the Cole All Star TV Circus will in-clude The B A R R Y MILLER TROUPE, TheCHANDLERS and the LANG FAMILY.

Mike Naughton

"Nothing can equal a circus under the Big Topfor wholesome, exciting and thr i l l ing entertain-ment. It wi l l be a sad day when the Big Topdoesn't come to town."

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eooo SHOWThe Dobritch Int'l Circus, produced by SandyDobntch, wound up a successful four day runfor the Wayne County Sheriffs' Association inWayne, Mich., on Sept. 26th.

Playing in opposition to Ringling Blue at De-troit's Olympia Stadium, some 20 miles away,plus encountering plenty of rain, the DobritchCircus nevertheless racked up overflow, strawhouses for at least six of its nine performances.It's estimated that crowds in excess of 40,000jammed the 150x300 ft. Florida Tent Rentalbig top.

Visitors seen at the Dobritch Circus included:Marqueen Schlarbaum, her sister and brother-in-law; Irv Romig and family; Grace Mac Intoshand Chuck Marine; George Da Deppo; the Far-rias; Billy McCabe; Clarence Hastings; StanleyBook; Bobby Johnson and many others fromthe local area.

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Show WorkActs appearing in the Grotto Circus, producedby George Hubler, at Rochester, N. Y., Sept.10th, include: Jeanette Rix, bears; The BumpyFamily; Donna Wilson, trapeze; Susan Sheryll'sRoyal Afghans; Johnny Laddie, unsupportedladders; Herbie Weber, wire; Miss Susan andMiss Sonja, webs; The Stevens, trampoline;the Wilson's cradle; Johnny Zoppe's RhesusMonkey Revue.

Included on the George Hubler produced "Starsof Nashville Special" at Galesburg, 111., on Sept.24th were: Pete Daniels, country-western sing-er; Moon Spoon Group, musical group; SusanSheryll, recording star; Tommy Cash and theFamous Tomcats.

The show was sponsored by the Fraternal Or-der of Eagles with all profits going to the Jim-my Durante Fund for Charity. Two showswere presented with advance tickets priced at$4.25 per person or $12 .00 for the family. Atthe door tickets sold for $6.00 per person.

The Emmett Kelly, Jr., Circus program at theUniversity at Normal, 111., on Sept. 25th fea-tured: Kent Clayton, announcer; Emmett Kel-ly, Jr. introduction; Susan Sheryll's Royal Af-ghans; Emmett and rope; The Wainwrights,

FLASH !DAVE TWOMEY, clown and owner/director ofthe Happytime Circus, has been released fromthe hospital and will be recuperating at the homeof a friend in Tacoma, Wash.

ROUTESJames E. Strates Show

Oct. 14-22 Raleih, N. C.

This Is Hawaii . . . On IceOct. 12-16 Perth, W. Aust.

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REX WILLIAMS was working an elephant rideit the Fair in Richmond, Va. He and BEN DEWAYNE were featured in a newspaper articleabout show folks late last month.

SAMMY KING, comedy star and ERNESTMONTEGO, juggler, are starring in the stageshow "Paris Scandale" at Nevada's Cal-NevaLodge.

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PLEASE NOTEClarification and a statement regarding lastweek's telephone interview with E. J. McDan-iels, including some information about his ac-tivities is scheduled for an early issue of TheCircus Report.

ED ASNER has a $120,8000 lawsuit againstthe TV show "Circus of Stars" he alleges hewas misled into being a part of the show withthe idea the proceeds were going to charity.

EDDIE EDWARDS, a former John Strong Cir-cus clown, has moved from his California hometo a farm in New York State.

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MAGICWe were fortunte enough to be in the Michiganarea with Magic Time USA and were able tostop in Colon and catch the opening night showof Abbott's 40th annual Magic Get-together. Itwas very ably MC'd by Gordon Miller and featur-ed Ger Copper, Ching Fu & Co., Ken Summersand Kim, Maria Suey, and closed with Neil Fos-ter who received a standing ovation. Neil onlyimproves with time. I recall working with himon an IBM Convention in Houston in 1957. Ithought he was great then and now he is evenbetter and I hope to see him again in another20 years.

In Colon we visited with the Conklins, ClaytonAlbright, Tom Ogden, Walt Hudson and manyothers. Especially enjoyed a chat with StanKramien who is one of the real pros in our busi-ness. Had coffee and a chat with Inez Kitchenand Mark Sraw at Mark's home. Inez (Black-stone) is the grand lady of magic and lives in myhometown of Sarasota, Fla. I have not been athome for over a year and a half, so had a lot ofcatching up to do with Inez. Mark is an interest-ing fellow and if you get a chance to meet himhe has many interesting magic stories about histrips overseas.

Unfortunately, one day was all we could spendin Colon and then we had to go on to Cincinna-ti where Mike Martin visited the show. We havereceived some interesting correspondence fromother shows. Had a nice note from Bob Momyer,of Phoenixville (Pa) who with his wife, Sandra,presents "Magic International Show" using amonkey, lynx, parrots, doves, rabbits and a boaconstrictor. Also had a nice letter from VinceCarmen who reports he is touring a 7 personshow with many large illusions.

Vince's letter, including a nice brochure depict-ing some of the illusions he presented in WardHall's magic show in Mexico last year. The girlto tiger illusion was of special interest to us. Itwas built by our friend Dick Berry (then of Bra-denton, Fla., now of Jackson, Miss.) He startedbuilding it for us, but then we purchased an Ab-bott make so we negotiated for Ward Hall topurchase the Berry model for his show. In Mex-ico, Ward got Johnny Lam to come on the showto furnish a cat for the illusion and load it, etc.,Incidentally, Ward's magic show was under con-tract to Ricardo Verdoney, who handled press

for many years with Atayde Bros. (He's a cou-sin) when my wife, Sara, was a featured actwith Atayde. After a few weeks Ward sold theshow equipment and illusions to Verdoney whooperated it on his own for the rest of the sea-son. The props are still Verdoney's propertyand in Mexico, but I understand the show is nolonger out.

Speaking of props in Mexico, magician DinoFlores who played the Doug Henning part inthe Mexican version of "The Magic Show"bought all the props when the show closed andhas them in Mexico. So Mexico has some goodprops - all of the California built magic showprops and all of Ward Hall's props, many ofwhich were built or rebuilt by Jerry Conklin.

Back in N.J., Magic Time USA was visited byAl Delage, Larry Weeks, Fred Bradshaw, AlMeredith and many others. Larry Weeks holdsfour All Day Magic Conventions each year inNew York City and they are great affairs. Hisnext one is Dec. 4th. For information write tohim at: 456 Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.11225.

In New York-.we stopped in our "NT Office" -Flosso's Magic Shop, 304 W. 34th St. JackieFlosso took over when his Dad passed on (wesure miss Al - one of the greatest in the business)and is doing quite well. Flosso's was started byHoudini way back when, is America's oldestmagic shop and is the "pros place". Chattedwith Stanley Burns in Flosso's who is withoutdoubt America's greatest vent. Stop in Flosso'swhen you are in the city, it is where the actionis.

In Fitchburg, Mass., we showed in the oldFitchburg Theatre which is an old vaude house.Vulcan used the theatre for many years as hishome base. In Rhode Island we were visited bymagician Fred Marko, fans Tom and Flo Kul-babsky, animal man Jimmy Cole and impresar-rio Cliff Lenox. Marko delivered an Abbott'sTaboret illusion to us which we had bought afew years back but never picked up. Marko us-ed it when he was touring with the EmmettKelly, Jr. Circus a few years ago. This great il-lusion was featured on many big shows. Black-stone called it the "up and down" illusion andThurston called it "lasia."

Christmas will soon be upon us so be looking(Continued on Page 18)

October 10, 1977

MAILAs one who was part of the Ringl ing Thrill Cir-cus at the Ohio State Fair, I would like to dis-agree with the recent review you ran of thatshow.

First - The production was designed as a ThrillShow not the usual production number formatoffered by Ringling's Red or Blue Units. As faras anyone being disappointed with the show,everyone on the fairgrounds that I talked to be-tween shows was very complimentary towardsit.

Second - Regarding the general set-up, thiscould not be handled any other way. When thismany acts are together for an event the size ofthis (which to my knowledge has never beendone before at a fair in the U. S.) one tries tomake the best of things. I for one thought itwas well laid out under the circumstances. Thesemi-trailer added much flash with its muralsof giraffes and elephants on its sides. Who reallycares what was inside of it? Any programs soldwere from the 1976 Red Unit featuring the Bi-C«ntennial. By being sold there, it gave peoplea chance to buy a worthwhile souvenir of theevent.

Third - Most of the elephant acts (independent)supply their own ring curbs. They had to workat the same time as the cage acts due to the factother grandstand acts were appearing during thefair also. I'll agree that it would have been greatto see the elephant acts and both cage acts too.I for one, made a special effort on the last dayof the fair to sit in the grandstand during theshow and could see it all. I even took some ofthe best pictures ever. Rix's act and Barreda'sboth looked great. Bill Pryun had an outstand-ing band there also.

Fourth - As far as the grandstand problem onseats, the show could be seen well from thetrack in front which was permitted to be enter-ed. Many people were there too. Actually,onedidn't really need to be in the grandstand asmost acts could easily be seen depending onwhat they were.

The cannon acts as far as I could see were sit-uated well and particularly were popular withthe crowd. Under the circumstances this num-ber could not have been done any other way,either.

WANT AGENTSHave openings for Nov. 18-19-20Indoor date at Springfield, 111.

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In MemoriamMARY FORD (53) the singing and guitar-play-ing partner of Les Paul in the 1950's died ofpneumonia after laying in a diabetic coma forseveral weeks at a Los Angeles hospital. Deathcame on Oct. 1st.She retired from active show business in 1964after divorcing Les Paul. A year later she mar-ried Don Hatfield who had been a boyfriendduring her youth.Survivors include her husband, Don Hatfield,a sister and two children.

MAGIC (Continued)

for the many magic shows that are out at thattime of year. The Amazing Conklins will be do-ing dates for L. G. Gordon and Jim Nordmark.Phil Chandler will be working in Phil Blysner'svariety show. Joe Eddy has his own dates inWisconsin. Al Delage will be all over the place.Our Magic Time USA will be working MearlJohnson dates. Stop by if you can.

Prof. "Stu" Miller, 2364 Fruitville Road, Sara-sota, Fla. - 33577.

Without a doubt, this attraction of the Ring-ling Thrill Circus was a supreme asset to theOhio State Fair. It was also the reason for thefair's increase in attendance. I personally talkedwith Governor Rhodes about the show and hehad nothing but praise for Ringling. Ward Hall,the veteran side show operator did well, all dueto the free circus.

Whether we see another production as fantas-tic as this remains to be seen, but I know I en-joyed my time there and have never seen amore well run attraction and layout. Myopinion is shared by many people both patronsand professional acts appearing there.

.. Tom Henricks

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MiscellaneousFive Bengal tiger cubs, said to be surplus, weredonated to the Ringl ing-Barnum Circus duringthe show's Red Unit engagement in the PacificNorthwest last month.

Several show folks were reportedly stranded inSapulpa, Okla., without money for fuel, foodor animal feed. Newspapers reported they hadworked a series of dates in the area, for whichthey had not been paid.

YEARS AGODownie Bros. Circus • Great Harrington, Mass.,July 18,1931.

Downie Bros. Circus arrived here this morningon about 100 trucks and cars and set up at thefair grounds. Everything was up before noonwhen a street parade was given.

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