5th Year July 12, 1976 Number 28

An Ok ShowAttendance for the recent Rudy Bros. Circus, at Cincinnati,

Ohio (July 1-4) certainly proved that a Phone Room can sell theshow. There was no advertising for this Firemen's sponsored circusand only one hand-lettered sign was seen at the fairgrounds site,yet the people were there.

The circus was set-up on theTrotting Track, just in front ofthe grandstand, an ideal spot forphotographers. The program ranjust over two hours and featuredsome great circus and vaude-typeacts. Some of the acts obviouslylooked better at the night showswhen they could take advantage of

special lighting effects and evenfireworks.

Music for the circus wasprovided by Florine Oler at theorgan and Tim Tegge on drums. Theannouncements were handled byMario Alberti, while Clown Alleyconsisted of Raz-Bo Bennett and

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2nd Opening SetIn a telephone interview E.

J. McDaniels, producer of Show-time USA, which folded in itsfirst week, reported the show isgoing to be reopened in SeptemberWhen Showtime USA reopens it willplay arenas, ball parks and sta-diums where seating and facili-ties already exist.

Despite reports to the con-trary, Showtime USA was a goodshow, with good equipment and ex-cellent acts, says McDaniels."Myerror was in hiring certain man-agement to run the front officeand the fact my money people pul-led out before we could get offand running."

According to McDaniels theshow folded when he was unable tobe on hand personally, and thefailure of his people to takehold. The talent and performerswere excellent and tried, he ad-ded, to hold the show together,but couldn't do it without helpfrom the front office. Anothermistake, McDaniels said, was that

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McDaniels has recovered allof the show property and has some$147,000 worth of equipment onhand. There are only two outstan-ding bills, he said ($16,000 and$28,000) which will be paid offthrough the sale of some of theshow equipment.

As a means of protectionMcDaniels had three differentcorporations for the show. "Thistime I had things set up legallyand straight and some lawsuitsfor breach of contracts andagreements may be filed againstseveral parties that caused Show-time USA to fold and for all thebad publicity."

When asked about his sonwho was hurt at Rosenburg (Texas)E. J. replied, "It was fortunatethat Harry wasn't seriously in-jured.

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ROUTESBeatty-Cole Circus

July 12 Poughkeepsie, N.Y.13 Newton, Conn.14 Mystic

Carson & Barnes CircusJuly 12 Bedford, Ind.

13 Washington14 Mt. Carmel, 111.15 Fairfield16 Salem17 Cahokia

Circus City FestivalJuly 16-17 Peru, Ind.

Circus KirkJuly 12 Hudson, Mass.

13 Waitham14 Braintree16 Marblehead18 Wakefield

Circus Vargasto July 15 Toronto, Ont.

DuBois Circus WorldJuly 14-18 Cowonsbilsy,Queb,

Famous Hunt CircusJuly 12 Amherst, Mass.

13 Athol14 Winchendon15 Gardener16 Leominster17 Clinton18 Marlboro

George-Matthews CircusJuly 20-21 Monroe, La.

Happytime CircusJuly 12-24 Santa Rosa, Ca.

Hoxie Bros. CircusJuly 12 Lancaster, Pa.

13 Elizabethtown14 Ephrata15 Mechanicsburg16 Pottsville17 Ashland18 Freeland

Hoxie's Great American Cir.July 12 Selma, Ind.

13 Hagerstown14 Fortville15 Sheridan16 Delphi17 Huntington

Lewis Bros. CircusJuly 12 Coeburn, Va.

13 St. PaulPickle Family Cireus

July 16-18 Ft. Bragg, Cal.Polack Bros. Circus

July 17 Eureka, Calif.Ringling-Barnum - Blue Unit

July 13-18 San Diego, Ca.Ringling-Barnum - Red Unit

to July 18 Houston, TexasRoyal Hanneford Circus

July 17-18 Monroe, La.Sells & Gray CircusJuly 12 Sparrow Bush,NY

13 Monticello14 Tarreytown15 Shelton, Conn.

Sells & Gray Circus (Cont'd)July 16 Montville, Conn

17 Pawcatuck18 Fall River, Mass

Super Circus, USAJuly 18-19 Thibodeaux, La.

TNT & Royal Olympic CircusJuly 13-17 Chattanooga,

Wallenda Circus TennJuly 13 Warren, Ohio

16-17 Wheeling, W.Va.... OTHER ROUTES

American Freedom TrainJuly 14-27 New York, N.Y.

Blake's Country FairJuly 14-18 Marshalltown,

Century 21 Shows (Red) IowaJuly 16-24 Peoria, 111.

Century 21 Shows (Blue)July 16-24 Peoria, 111.

Diamond S. RodeoJuly 13 Troy, Ohio

16 Kenton17 Findlay

James H. Drew ShowsJuly 12-17 New Albany,Ind

Jett's Petting ZooJuly 15-25 El Cerrito, Ca.

Pontiac UnicyclistsJuly 12 Scranton, Pa.

13-14 New York, N.Y.15-16 Allentown, Pa.

17 Philadephia18 Baltimore, Md.

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BILLY BARTON • • • •THE JUNE ISSUE OF "AFTER

DARK* has a photo of KAZIMERZ DY-MEK (Pole Voltiage) filling in asa Bus Boy, at the Dunes, duringthe strike by three Vegas Unions.Inside the hotels everybody waspinch-hitting and at least 50% ofthe cast of the Lido show doubl-ed as bellhops, maids and waiters- all in a true "show mist go on1

spirit, only in this case it was"business as usual!"

EMMETT KELLY, Sr. is unhappjabout a NEIL SEDAKA albumn bear-ing Emmett's "Weary Willie" like-ness DOUG MORRIS and partnerCLIFF MOSLEY are touring theirDeWayne Bros. Circus from San Di-ego to Alaska. Doug is lightingdirector for the TONY ORLANDO 8,DAWN and DINAH SHORE shows. Insummer he moonlights with the

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circus, where his daughter, Su-sie (15), is an aerialist. Ilast trouped with Doug on theRichard Bros. Circus.

Phil and Francine's babyelephant DONDI is a cute-as-a-button act the audience warms tcimmediately. It's a real noveltyand is bound to end up in Vegas....BILL and TRUDY STRONG playedthe real tourist role enroute tca L.A. Circus date, then took inall the tourists spots, and werehosted to a dinner party by PAULand JUDY KAYE.

HELEN WALLENDA is on theroad with husband KARL KAYFRANCIS HANNEFORD was in a NewOrleans sanitarium recently forcontinued treatments J. P.THERON is back with the EmmettKelly, Jr., Circus.

CIRCO CESARE TOGNI's arrivalin the U. S. for an Italian Fes-tival was delayed by an earth-quake and then a shipping strike- they finally went to Peru fora 50 day run.

ANDY ANDERSON has had prob-lems keeping the New York Park•open. City fathers want to tearit down and everything is up inthe air WALT KING is enjoy-ing a good summer with his ANI-MALAND PARK near Detroit.

Seriously ill IGINIO BOGINOhas been re-hospitalized....theSells & Gray Circus beat Hoxieinto Waynesboro, Pa. by about 20days> (Continued on Page 9)

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Show GuestsOLD CHICAGO - Vashek and his

wife; Aneta and Jacob Vargas; JimDouglass; John and Ilonka VillamsBilly Barton; Sarah Chapman; Bob-by Davis; Vern and Danny Woernerand John Benaka.

SAM T. POLACK CIRCUS - SandyDobritch; Mary Lou and Diane Lan-des; Susan and Cemon; Emil andDebbie Goetchi; John McKay andCookie; Rex and Sandy Young; DonGilcrest; Merle Evans; Doug MeCloud; Giles Austing; Don Phil-lips; Barbara Taggart and daugh-ter Sonette; Viola McLeod; theZamudios; the Slaters.; HowardSchultz; Iris Keppo; Jorge ResellJohn Goodall; Alfredo Atayde; Iv>Kelroy's sister; Isabel Luvas*father and many, many others.

CIRCUS ACTSThe program produced by Wm.

Kay for the El Korah Shrine Tem-ple (Boise, Idaho) June 22-25featured: Blinko & Maran, BallocnA-Rama; Bob Johnson, juggling/balance; LaBelle Raquel, aerial}Pam Rosaire, chimps/dogs; Al'sLemonzeen; The Wallendas, highwire; Vidbell's ponies/elephants;The Navarros, cycles; Johnny andBarbara Luxem, sky wheel.

The staff included: Wm. Kay,director; Patricia Kay, talent;John Malett, musical director;Enrico Bogino, supt.; Val Anton-ette, concessions; Bruce Freem,wardrobe; Susan Cullen, secretarywith Russ Emerson and Jack Healy,handling advertising.

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ED PORTER reports RobertsBros, played to full houses atHighland (N.Y.) on June 30th.

JAY JAXON, stilt walker,recently visited the HenneberryFamily at Toulon (111) while playing dates in that area.

JIM RINEHART, juggler, willtake his family to India for twoyears to study under a Guru.

TED STEWART (Los Comman-cheros) is now back in the cradleact after a 5̂ month layoff dueto a dislocated shoulder. Theyhave dates with Tegge, then jointhe George-Matthews Circus.

LISA HAMBLEY (daughter ofEuroporama's announcer Harry Ham-bley) was injured doing web dur-ing the last week of the show'stour. She dislocated her knee ancmust wear a leg brace for severalweeks. Lisa was replacing ELAINESLOAN who left the show after be-ing injured in a car accident.

THE HENNEBERRY Family work-ed Aurora (Minn.) on July 3rd andBreckenridge (Mich.) on July 4th.

TOBY REED (who replaced TedStewart in the cradle act called

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JIM RINEHART (Juggler) andfamily will go to India for twoyears to study mediation under aGuru.

BOB EMRICO (clown) recent-ly closed with the Lewis Bros.Circus and jumped into Anaheim(Calif.) where he played withthe Gatti show on July 4th.

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COL. E. T. BALE'S CONTINENTAL HORSESAt RBBB Circus World - Haines City, Fla.

IRENE, GLORIA, NITA and BONNIE "The Bale Sisters"High School Horses on tour with "Holiday With Horses"

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chairman of the Dupage County Po-lice Assoc. which has, for thepast six years, sponsored a cir-cus, and this year sponsored theSam T. Polack Circus at Wheaton(Jun 23-27) started out in 1939as a prop hand on the old ColeBros. Circus.

After that he was a musicianwith the Glen Gray orchestra. "Iam very circus oriented," saidRex, which is quite obvious afterlistening to him. 'Ve are pleasedwith the Sam Polack show," he ad-ded. "He has brought Wheaton newacts and good acts."

The promotion was successfulalthough undermined somewhat byanother circus promtional cam-paign for the same site this fall"They started their promotionmuch earlier than ours," he said.

Martin had left the lot be-

CLARK McDERMOTT has his"Cold Nose Five" act at Gaines-ville, Texas, where he is break-ing in two new dogs.

DO DO, the Clown, is work-ing libraries in Northern Louis-iana. Working with him is "LitttDoe" a clown audiences like.

NOTICE!It was the "Rito Bros." who

provided a trampoline and juggl-ing act at the CFA Convention,their name was listed wrong in arecent issue of CR.

Carl Wong was not involvedin that recent Myrtle Beach fall.Two men were working in Carl's"Skymasters" act and they fell.

fore the bad blowdown but wasseen accessing the damage thenext day. "It's a good thing wehad an early show," he remarked.

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BILLY BARTON (Continued)ALPHONSO MAGANA and LU ANN

JACOBS made the Denver Shrine en-gagement for PAUL KAYE during theG-M layover THE WALLENDA CIR-CUS tours this month and the OL-ER's are starting their fair run.

Comic-Impressionist FRANKRODERICK, who lives in Martins-burg (W.Va.) where CARSON & BAR-NES played in early June, was as-tonished to see a parade of ele-phants stretched from one end oftown to the other. "I've neverseen SO many elephants in mylife!" says Roderick. Nor has anyone else, Frank!

The untimely demise of CHAR-LIE NOCK resulted from choking ona piece of meat, followed by aheart attack. Only his daughterwas home and she was unaware ofthe tragedy. Charlie was pronoun-ced DOA at the hospital, then wasrevived, but for 20 minutes nooxygen had gotten to his brain.He finally succumbed. My personalsympathies to the Nock Family.

CARLA WALLENDA will appearat the Police date in Clevelandproduced by Eddie ZacchiniRUDY BROS. CIRCUS will play a runof dates in the fall, plus someChristmas shows BILL BRICKLEreports he enjoyed visiting Beat-ty-Cole and they have their bestshow in several years....Afterthe Berman-Dalls Super Circus runBILL BRICKLE goes into AgawamPark for 3 weeks, following theJORDANAS. He and John Meyers havebuilt a mirrored archway, completewith mirrored ball for the "Miss

Universe Pageant" segment of hisPoodle Fantasy.

Acts at the Circus for theBaltimore Fair (Jun. 17-27) hand-led by GIL MILLER included: Fos-sett's Swaying Stars with the3irl in the Moon; Sensational Le-ighs; Oscar Cristiani; Baron VonUhl; the Albanis, aerial motor-cycle; the Obandos and Peter Lu-vas* Globe of Death.

TOMMY BENTLEY who hasn't hada day off this season, went dir-ectly to Oklahoma City after fin-ishing the Cincy promotion forRudy Bros....The GERALDOS follow-ed the ill-fated SKYMASTERS intoEarl Husted's Myrtle Beach Pavil-lion (S.C.).

ZENKA MALIKOVA, the greatestsingle woman high wire act of alltime, is playing spot dates. Mal-ikova, is something of a miracle!She looks the same, does the samebreath-taking act I first saw in1947. Her look-alike sister isKLARA BERTINI now touring withIAN GARDEN.

The old Hunt Bros. Circuswas the first to use a Wild WestConcert and it was my uncle,George Barton, who produced it?Wonder when some new show will"revive" the "after show "format?

I've been told that DOREYMILLER is heading west into morefamilar and profitable territory,with his Carson & Barnes Circus.

Famous Hunt will get a newtop in 77 and change its format- 1890's style, with imitationgas lights and other accoutre-ments of that area!

See you down the road, luvs.

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MiscellaneousThe Kansas Alley #45, of the

Nat'l Clowns of America, willhave a get-together on Aug. 1st,the first day of the Clown WeekFestivities at Wichita (Aug 1-7).

The Happytime Circus and Al-len's Petting Zoo played side-by-side at the Pleasanton (Calif.)Fair July 6-11.

The Royal Palace Circus wasat Bridgeport (Conn.) during thefinal days of the Barnum Festival

ROUTESRose City Rides

July 13-17 Troy, Mo.Tip Top Shows

July 13-18 Seymour, Wise.Wonderful World of Horses

July 12-13 Long Beach, Calif.15-18 Anaheim

40 Horse HitchJuly 19 Farmer City, 111.

Show DateSeveral surprises and inno-

vations were enjoyed by CFA Con-ventioneers who attended theStebbing Circus on June 10th. Inthe afternoon some 270 people en-joyed a Bar-B-Que, then in theevening they went to the circus.

The show's tent is an 85 ftround end with a 40 ft center.The entrance marquee is a Europ-ean type and all the main poleswere decked out in colored lightsThe program was an excellent one,and enjoyed by everyone.

All of the show's quarterpoles are of the mushroom type(without spikes). They provedtheir worth, says John Stebbing,just a few days before the con-vention when a wind and rainstorm struck. I thought we weregoing to lose the top, he said,but in three minutes we had itdropped down and thus saved it.You couldn't have done that withspiked poles.

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AN OK SHOW (Continued)

Tim "Twinkles" Tegge.

The program featured: CrazySailors, tumbling; Bob Worth &Co, juggling; Miss Carmen, tightwire; Clowns, the magic box; theLipko Comedy Chimps (2); Clowns,the magic bag; Sherry's rollingglobe; Henry Libor, one man mus-ical show; Clowns, the Swami;The Burketts, aerialist-s, follow-ed by intermission.

The second half of the showfeatured: Johnson's bears; Clownsand a balloon; Prince Najvez,aerialist; The Flintstones, nov-elty feature; Swen and Lili Kris-tenson and the Carden-Johnsonelephants; Carmen del Molino,single trapeze and Eddie Venturaand his Rocket Car.

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