8th Year April 9, 1979 Number 15

SVB ICE 5HOV5The purchase of Ice Follies and the Holiday On Ice shows by Ringling Bros.-Barnum &

Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., was announced in a joint statement by both circus and ice show of-ficials on Mar. 22nd. The sale included the business and assets of three ice shows for an undisclosedamount of money.

The operation of the ice shows was immediately placed under the personal supervision ofIrvin Feld, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kenneth Feld, Executive Vice President ofthe Ringling-Barnum Circus. They are also the producers of "The Greatest Show on Earth."

Arthur M. Win/, Chairman of the Board of Win/ Productions Ltd., said, "My associatesand I are delighted and honored that Ice Follies and Holiday On Ice, attractions which we love somuch, will now be part of the Ringling Bros,and Barnum & Bailey Circus Family. Irvin andKenneth Feld are dedicated to preserving thetradition of excellent family entertainment.Their involvement with the shows is a guaran-teed assurance that the same integrity, care andconcern for the highest level of quality - thesame unlimited scope of imaginative and ex-citing entertainment that the public long hasassociated with the Greatest Show on Earth -will be extended to Ice Follies and Holiday on

Irvin Feld commented, "My son, Kenneth,and I recognize the need for family attractionsand how important Ice Follies and Holiday OnIce have been in filling and accommodating thatdemand. We enthusiastically welcome the affilia-tion with these splendid shows and look forwardto continuing to bring them to the public. Webelieve that maintaining high creative and artisticstandards is the best means of upholding and in-

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SHOW TIME USA ... by Theo Mandrake

Show-Time USA, a new magic-variety show, is ma-king the rounds in Ohio. We caught the show March10th at the Bowling Green High School (Ohio).The show stars the Amazing Kelmar, a young man

in his mid 20s who gets a lot of time out of smallermagic. Opening the program was a variety of magic -gloves to flowers, rope stretching, cut and restoredrings of rope, a handful of loose chain links joinedtogether when tossed into the air and climaxing witha nice rabbit production. Kelmar then worked withtwo children from the audience with a comedy cutand restored rope, and removing the boys underpantsas a finish.

Next on the bill was a puppet act presented by MissSharon (Kelmar's wife who assists him throughoutthe show). The puppets are of the Muppets type andwork to a recorded track.

Kelmar appears again, this time dressed in an IndianNeru jacket and presents the Linking Rings.

One of the highlights of the show is Dum-Dum theClown (Red Penly) who presented a funny gag witha soda pop tray.

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The second half opened with a flashy oriental actusing silks, and ended with a squared-circle produc-tion of silks and a rabbit. This was followed by Oum-Dum doing a number of balloon sculptures.An E.S.P. experiment was then presented, followed

by comedy juggling and gags by the clown. Kelmarthen returned to present an escape from 100 feet ofrope and closed the show with his escape from astrait-jacket.

The grand drape on the stage did not work andthere was little in the way of lighting so this did ham-per the show, as props were moved on and off behindthe performer. The sound needs some work, but overall the 300 some people who saw the show seemed toenjoy it. I was surprised to see such a large show with-out the use of illusions, but Kelmar kept them enter-tained throughout the show.

Alter talking with Kelmar he said the show was go-ing into the barn and will return next fall, He plansto add an illusion or two, plus his own lights and hemay use live music.

PEGGY FLEMING, skating star, is featured in a unitof the Ice Follies which is playing a month's engage-ment at Harrah's in Tahoe, Nevada.

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VINCE CARMEN is featured with his illusions in theAcurama Show which opened in Maracaibo, Venezuelaon March 30th.

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SHOW DATESBeatty Cole Circus

Mar 29-Apr 1 Mary Esther,Apr. 2-4 Pensacola Fla.

5 8 Mobile, Ala.9-10 Gulfport. Miss.

11-12 Laurel13-15 Jackson

Carson & Barnes CircusApr. 9 Mineral Wells, Tex.

10 Burkburnett11 Sulphur, Okla.12 Pauls Valley13 Seminole14 Mustang

Hubert Castle CircusApr. 9 Mitchell. S.O.

10 Chamberlain11-12 Yankton. S.D.

Circus A La ModeApr 13-14 Berkeley, Calif.

Funs-A-Poppin CircusApr. 11 Yucca Valley, Calif.

14 San Ditgo

Lin-Rich Animal CircusApr. 9-14 Youngstown, Ohio

Monte Carlo CircusApr. 10-22 Chicago, III.

Moscow CircusApr. 11-15 Memphis, Tenn.

Police CircusApr. 13-15 Seattle, Wash.

Ringling-Barnum - Blue UnitApr. 10-22 Washington,DC

Ringling-Barnum • Red Unitto June 3 New York, NY

Roberts Bros. CircusApr. 14 Zeypher Hills, Fla.

Royal Lichtenstein CircusApr. 9 Ann Arbor, Mich.

10 Flint11 Detroit12 Cleveland, Ohio13 Oberlin14 Gambier

John Strong CircusApr. 9 Brawley, Calif.

10 El Centro11 Gila Bend, Ariz.12 Coolidge13 Prescott14 Kingman15 Lake Havasu

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James H, Drew ExpositionApr. 9-14 Charlotte, N.C.

Gutis Family • Jungle ParodyApr. 10-14 Barre, Vt.

Holiday On IceApr. 11-15 Columbia, S.C.

Holiday On Ice • Nat'lApr. 10-15 St. Petersburg, Fla

Ice Capades - Eastern UnitApr. 10-16 Salt Lake City,

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Ice Capades - Western UnitApr. 12-15 Austin, Texas

Ice FolliesApr. 10-15 Oklahoma City,

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Magic Time USA - Prof. MillerApr. 8 Kingston, NY

9 OneontalOWaverly11 Mechanicsburg, Pa.12 Harrisburg14 York

Man/mi Escapeology ShowApr 11-12 Albion, Mich.

14-15 Allen Park

Paul Royter - MagicianApr. 9 Great Falls, Mont.

10 Havre14 Guymon, Okla.

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A LETTER from DENNIS STEVENS came bearingthe distressing news that popular bandleader HENRYKYES died in Sarasota at the age of 88. The jovialKyes was known affectionately as the "Paul White-man of the White Tops," trouped on all the majortent shows and was for many, many years musicaldirector with Polack Bros. Circus • up until his retire-ment, in fact. Henry was extremely well-liked, posse-ssed of a great sense of humor, and was one of thefinest circus bandleaders this business ever had. Restin Peace, dear friend.

More Musical Notes: Organist VIRGINIA LEE FEN-TON is making the Japan tour with PAD L KAYE.Sheand her drummer partner le f t Mar. 23rd and returnto the USA Apr. 29th. The circus is appearing in twocities, Nagoya and Takaoka which involves 14 work-ing days and the excited Virginia hopes to get in abit of sightseeing. Her note to me reveals the Key-board Mistress is "thrilled beyond words."SNAPSHOTS: Composer BARBARA TAGGART

writes she received a letter from A.S.C.A.P. whichincluded a cash award for her musical compositionsincluding several circus tunes. Barbara says she wassurprised and pleased.. .IRVIN FELD will producea second TV Special featuring SIEGFRIED & ROYfor NBC-TV, planned for a Thanksgiving showing...Swedish juggler KRIS KREMO is out of the LidoShow in Vegas because of an auto mishap. The jugg-ler's spot has been taken over by ventriloquist BAR-CLAY SHAW - temporarily, of course.. .THE WAZ-ZANS write from Australia that they have enjoyedtheir tour "down under" and will be saddened to seeit end.. .SANDY BUMPY HOUGE dropped a line tosay that all the Bumpies (now retired) have adjustedquite well to the "outside world".. AL VIDBELplayed the Montreal Shrine date without JOYCE whohad to stay behind to take care of the baby elephantthey couldn't take into Canada. We really missed youJoyce!.. .The SWAYING STARS are now four since

daughter LUCY has been in the act (since the Texasdates last season). The act is spot-dating the Gardenroute, makes dates for Hubler, and will play the Bal-timore Shrine in Nov. . .MERLE and PAM COOKstart out their season with dates for EDDIE ZAC-CHINI and then play fairs for GASTONI.

REGGIE ARMOR has bounced back from his al-most fatal injuries of last season to sub for IANGARDEN as technical advisor on the Canadian TVseries CIRCUS! while Ian went to handle his Mon •treal Shrine date - meanwhile the producer told methat Reggie will be the manager of one of his unitsthis season. Acts taped on the Circus program Mar.12 thru 21st included: James Zoppe Riders, Ethel'sGreyhounds, Lilli-Ana's leopards. Juggler Ken Slier-burne. The Albertis, Milton Zamudio (high wire). Es-cape artist Dick Schick, the Herandez Troupe, Randy& Sylvia, The Gutis Family, Cheri Troy, Upton'sCradle, Adele and Gory, Vidbel's elephants and pon-ies, Alek Sebesteyn's Poodles, Kurt's Chimps, HansiniDuo, Alice's Birds, the Sathia Duo (aerial act with SaSa Armor and Kathia) and Freddy Kursawe, bike so-loist, with others still be to signed.

CLOSEUPS: The girls on the Garden Montreal datetossed a birthday party between shows for songstressMICKEY GARDEN who, being a sentimentalist, brokedown and cried.. .Sponge-plunger RUTH ANN sleeps- are you ready for this - on the floor which she prefersto a Beautyrest mattress (oh my aching back).. .Duringmy stint in Canada I re-encountered the ROBERTSONFamily whom I've not seen for some years • Maurice,Francoise, daughter Lauren and son Reggie, along withhis young wife. The troupe will be with Cirque Gatinithis season. I was shown pictures of Lauren's new re-volving aerial act sty led with an Indian motif.. .Alsospotted in the hallway was TOMMY COOPER, and anumber of visitors from Cirque Gatini.. .HERTA

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: i=) :>!:*•BEATTY-COLE CIRCUS ... by Jack Hunter

The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus played Charles-ton, S. C. on March 16-18, a month earlier than lastseason. This was the third date for the show and theyjumped from here to Waycross, Ca.. for one day, thento Albany, Ga.

The big top was the same one that was used last yearand their new side show top had not yet arrived. Theyhave a new big top on order which will be red, whiteand blue.

Both shows on Friday were given to 3/4 houses, andthe 1 and 4:30 p.m. shows on Saturday were present-ed to straw houses. The Saturday evening show was a3/4 house and both Sunday shows were SRO's.

Mary Johnson, Marketing Director for the show, didan outstanding job of promoting the circus. She trulyloves the circus and is 100% for and with it.

The new advance clown, Elmo Gibb, is great. He vis-its hospitals, schools, day care centers, etc. Then wason hand for the tent raising and kept the many schoolkids on the lot entertained.

Col. Trevor Bale, the show's ringmaster is outstandi-ing and we did get a chance to talk about a few oldmemories.

R. P. GRAY writes that his company's name has nowbeen changed to "Great Texas Show Productions."The address is still the same: Box 53, Liberty Hill,Texas 78642.

The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus is a great showand all of its people are friendly and courteous andinterested in their show. All of the people are lookingforward to playing for the CFA convention this year.

The show program features: Dave Hoover, wild ani-mals; Walter & Ingrid, plate spinning; The Ruwills,plate spinning; the Flores Duo, aerial cradle; the Fer-reira Duo, aerial cradle; Trevor Bale's High SchoolHorses; Mile. Angela, juggling; The Haucks, juggling;the Romeros Duo, ground perch; Julio & Antonio,ground perch; Semon's Chimps; Aerial Ladder numfcher with Marie Christine on the revolving trapeze; theAlvarez Troupe, flying trapeze; John Welde's bears;The Apollos, adagio; Hans & Sigrid, adagio; Miss Bon-nie, cloud swing; Sr. Valdez, head balance trapeze; ateeterboard display with The Estradas, Orlando andCelina and the Martin Trio; Fred Logan's elephantswith the long mount.

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CARSON & BARNES ... by Ron Sanford

The writer (Beatrice, Nebr.) as well as Larry Chartier(Manhattan, Kans), and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Me Roberts(Topeka, Kans.) were in Hugo, Okla., for the open-ing day of Carson & Barnes Circus (Mar. 16).

Last year's top was used, set up on the show's winterquarters lot. All 5 rings are worked at the same timethroughout the show program and costumes are beau-tiful. Everyone agreed this year's program is strongerthan that of last season. •*This year's spec is "The Glory of Old Mexico" andincludes some fabulous costumes.The menagerie has 25 elephants, a hippo, zebra, yex,llamas, camels, and a variety of caged animals. In themidway are a pony ride, refreshment stand, snakeshow and aGeachelone Elephantopus Show.All trucks are well painted (or the tour. New thisyear is the cookhouse truck and spool truck, alsonew are two carnival lights.The show has a new paper this season which is sureto attract people, and there is a new program withlots of color photos.

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R B BUYS ICE SHOWS (Continued)creasing our audiences. The circus is the oldest touringfamily attraction and we are thrilled at the opportun-ity of having these beautiful and ever-popular ice ex-travaganzas as pan of our organization."

Ice Follies was the first ice show to be introduced inthis country, and was produced and presented to theAmerican public by Arthur M. Wirtz in 1936, at theChicago Stadium starring the legendary Sonja Henie.Holiday on Ice, which has two touring companies,was founded in 1947.

The 109 year old Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Cir-cus was purchased by the Felds in 1967, and becamea Mattel subsidiary in 1971. Since then the circus hasexpanded to two units and a Clown College has beenestablished.

Earlier this year the Felds launched a third unit, theInternational Circus Festival of Monte Carlo Specta-cular, presented under the high patronage of His Ser-ene Highness Prince Rainier III.

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SHRINE CIRCUS ... by Bill Galloway

For the second year, the Cyprus Temple Shrine Cir-cus was produced by William Kay. Rainy and coldweather did not deter the crowds, as promoter KrisKrenkle brought in the largest attendance in the 26year history. The March 10 and 11 shows for the Al-•jany, N.Y. Temple had standing room only for thefive performances. Visitors included Louis Stern (84years young), former producer of Polack Bros. Circus,agent Tibor Alexander, Mike Naughton and Al Vidbel.The program featured: Introductions; Overture; Tigeract presented by Edca Schmitt; Clowns and Dog Pie;Geronimo (John Jordan) plunge; Yano's Chimps (Dub-sky); Clowns and Watch Repairs; Elephant and Rhinopresented by Roman Schmitt; The Jordanas, Upsidedown unicycle (John and Lisa Jordan); Stacy Mooreand the Mongreal Revue; Intermission; Hansinis (HansKraus), sword and ladder; Gina's Uncaged Leopards(Dubsky); Miss Delisa (Lisa Jordan), single trapeze;Jana and her Birds of Paradise (Dubsky); Adele andGory, gorilla parody (Hans Kraus); Clowns and LongShin; Royal Hungaria Troupe, risley (Dubskys); Ele-phants presented by Roman Schmitt; The Castro Broson the high wire; Exit Marches.Clown Alley included: Joe Sherman, producing; Bill

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MiscellaneousPaper for both the Fisher Bros. Circus and Carson &Barnes Circus was displayed in the same store win-dows at Universal City, Texas. The C&B paper wasfor an April 3rd date.

Funs-A-Poppin Circus was featured at the Date Fes-tival in Indio, Calif, and while there booked severalother fair dates for later this year. Visitors at thefair date included Wini McKay, Chester Cable andPoco the Clown.

SUSAN and STAN MULFORD (he is with the Nord-mark Productions) are the parents of a baby boy -Stanley Harwood Mulford MM, bom in Sarasota, Fla.on March 25th. The new arrival weighed in at 8 IDS.II M.DONNA TRAINA and TRACY METCHECK have es-tablished themselves as unique tightwire performersand were featured in the Van Nuys, Calif. "ValleyNews" on March 23rd.

K! MO SHULZE, popular Texas clown, has teamed upwith other performers and created their own SidewalkCircus in Guatemala. The show is already scheduledfor a tour in Central America and Europe.MEL HALL visited friends with the Garden-JohnsonCircus when that show opened at Lake Chalres, La.,on March 19th.CLARENCE HASTINGS writes that CFA's from allover Michigan attended the Monte Carlo Circus atGrand Rapids and then were guests along with showfolks at a party at the home of HERMAN BRAND-MILLER

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Al Dawley, ringmaster for the Sam T. Polack Circusat Pine Bluff (Mar. 16-17) was the subject of severalfeature stories in the local press. Also during that en-gagement Al Dawley, John MacKay, Clown, Lee Kee-ner, Diano's elephants and producer Sam T. Polackwere made Honorary Members of the Shrine Club.This makes at least 12 clubs for Al and several forJohn that I know of.

A Mississippi CFA'r made a 100 mile round trip toHattiesburg to visit Circus Genoa on opening dateonly to find they opened in Robertdale, Ala. Sincethere was a variety of routes listings it was difficultto know just where they were. My regret to HaroldCausey for the long trip in vain. By the way Haroldsaw the Moscow Circus and said he wasn't too im-pressed.

The Millette Tent CFA of Dallas all met on the C&Blot on Mar. 22nd for their meeting and to attend theshow. Their next lot meeting wiH be with TNT & Ro-yal Olympic which is set to play a local Mall. Afterthe show they plan a cook house dinner.

Christmas in March? Yes, that's what this writer hasbeen experiencing. First I received a package of cir-cus letterheads from Houston, some European pro-grams from Hartford and and a variety of old itemsfrom Sikesjpn, Mo. My thanks to all of those whosend me items along with news and information.

Thanks too to those people who wrote and saidthey would enjoy more European show items. Hereare a tew tidbits: Senior clown Eddie Orry, withJames Bros, will be back in the ring this spring afterrecovering from a heart attack. Mary Chipperfieldhad her cat act at the Kevin Hall Circus, promotedby the Glasgow District Council. Bad weather overthe Holidays cut attendance at Liverpool for theChipperfields Circus. The paper "World Fair" carriedan ad that "a new circus would open in March 1979"

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JOE MYERS (Jo-Mar the Clown) will be with RobertBros. Circus again this season, as producing clown.

DICK OSLUND, magician, is presently out bookingdates for the 1979 tour of Circus Girard.

RALPH HARTMAN. recently visited MEL SILVER-LAKE'S Fisher Bros. Circus when the show was play-ing at Marion, Texas, on Mar. 14th.

and was looking for tent people (canvas), oillers, me-chanics, electricians, stilt walker and midgets. JamesBros, formerly a 2 pole tent show is going to a 4 poletop and will sell their old tent. The Gerry Cottle Cir-cus tented it right through the winter season, some-thing not usually done in England because of the badsnows they often experience. In 1930 the Great Car-no Circus did the same thing, got caught in a heavysnowstorm and their tent collapsed, causing thous-ands of dollars in damage.

Shows playing in Britain are: Belle Vue, Kelvin Hall,Austen Bros., London Circus, Chipperfields, CircusHoffman, Circus Reunion, then Billy Smarts and theGilbert Bros, and Robert Bros, are set to open soon.

Even in England they have problems getting help,but one ad of interest stated: "Ground available forcircus in 1979 - Hastings Brough Council. Applica-tions are invited from circus proprietors to stage theircircus in Hastings. A 2 acre side is available." Nowwhere in America can a circus get that kind of coop-eration?

The Davenport Jungle Wonders Circus was spottedalong 1-55 on March 7th in North Houston. The fanwho sent me the information said he was enroute tothe airport when he spotted the circus. The main topappeared to be blue and a two pole tent, with asquare end top also on the lot. Elephants were stakedout on the midway. Trucks were well painted.

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HOXIE BROS. CIRCUS ... by John Hart

Floridians in three west central cities, Brookville,New Port Richey and Lakeland, were treated to aMar. 23-25 preview tour of the 1979 edition of theHoxie Bros. Circus. According to owner L. B. "Hoxie" Tucker the show would return to quarters forseveral days before starting its formal tour.The show as presented at New Port Richey, underthe auspices of the Police Benevolent Association,consisted of: Spec "Circus on Parade"; Lisner Duo.aerial balancing; Patti Antalek, high school horse;the Campa Sisters and Stimax Trio, juggling; Valen-tino Duo, French trapeze; Clowns, with ConstructionCrew and Bank Robber; Patti Antalek. Canine Ca-pers; Jim Royal and Tiffiny Light Fantastic Illusion;Clowns with Space Rocket; The Campa Family, un-icycles; Intermission; Jim Royal and Tiffiny Bond-age Illusion; Coloring Book Pitch; Reggilito and Co.,musical comedy; The Stimax Chimps; Balloon Pitch;Patti Antalek, military ponies; Danuska and fourgirls on web; Clowns with a child's dressing contest;Loyal Repensky Riders, with Roman and trick rid-ing; Jim Silverlake, two elephants.The show's lion act and flying act were not used atNew Port Richey due to the soft ground.The show is expertly paced by Jim Royal in his se-cond year with Hoxie as ringmaster. Walter Stimaxheads up Clown Alley which is undoubtedly the

IN MEMORIAMEMMETT KELLY (80) whomade millions of people laughas "Weary Willie" died follow-ing a heart attack at Sarasota,F i d on March 28th. He wasfeatured on Cole Bros, andRingling-Barnum, as well asmany other shows. He was anannual feature at a Reno Casinoand was reported to be workingon a film story about his life.

strongest ever seen on a home show.Costuming was bright and fresh showing off BettyTucker's flair for spectacular, but durable attire,that lasts well into the season.Canvas crews of both the Hoxie and Great Americanshows were being used for set up and tear down. Itwas obvious that this was both a training and "weed-ing out" exercise.According to Joe McMahon, general agent in charge,the actual on the road show will be much strongerwith the addition of the lion act, flying act and thesix "punk" elephant act which was playing elsewherethis week. However, just on the basis of what was ac-tually seen, it is this writer's opinion this is probablythe best show Hoxie and Betty Tucker have everpresented.

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MONTE CARLO CIRCUS ... by Jon Friday

Ready or not, the long-awaited premiere tour of theFestival International du Cirque de Monte Carlo Spec-tacular through the U. S. and Canada, complete witha souvenir program half-English and half-French likea Montreal menu, is now underway. Stressing qualityrather than quantity in the finest European circustradition and backed with all the know-how, mightand proven track record of Ringling-Barnum, this isthe show to watch in '79.1 predict this show willmake waves that will effect everyone in the circusfield and the net result can only be vast improve-ments and renewed interest.

The show opens with a band number with all the un-iformed property hands standing at attention and thenthe Performance Director, Mike Gorman, introducesSergio, the 29 year old ringmaster from Paris. Then ashort film is shown of Monte Carlo which concludeswith opening remarks and comments on the Interna-tional Circus Festival of Monte Carlo by His SereneHigness Prince Ranier III. During the brief five yearhistory of the Monte Carlo Festival only seven indi-viduals or troupes have been accorded the Gold ClownAward, and Elvin Bale is the only one seen in this per-formance. There have been 21 Silver Clown Awardsgiven to individuals or troupes which includes theRichter Family, the Silagis and Duo Dobritch featuredin this touring show.The Riding Richters present precision acrobatics on

horseback. The Hungarians are skilled equestrians butthe sextet remains fairly aloof towards the payingpublic. According to the program photos they presenta most difficult free head-to-head stand with the un-derstander standing on the back of a moving horse. Idon't see how I could miss such an outstanding featif it was presented at Grand Rapids, but then I wasdistracted several times during the opening act by late-comers to the 7:30 p.m. performance. Sergio workedvery hard to get a big hand for them with the Europ-ean custom of a rhythmic applause with a beat thatwasn't entirely a success.

Eli and Rosalba Albarracine, of Colombia, (S.A.) perform their unique aerial cradle routines next. Rosalbasupports her husband by only one ankle during part

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of the routine as Eli executes a back plange off a footloop attached to her other ankle. The Albarracineswon special recognition at the 1976 InternationalFestival.Luis Munoz, of Spain, is known as a flamboyant per-

former and a low wire virtuoso executing both for-ward and backward somersaults with ease. He alsohas a dazzling smile and tons of personality thatwould win over any crowd even if he was a less giftedartist. It's during this act with all the by-play betweenLuis and Sergio, who acts as his assistant, that theaudience begins to perk up and see that this isn't goingto be just another circus.

The Gabor Eotvos, Hungarian Musical Clowns (4)present the ageless and traditional European art formas they did at the 1978 Circus Festival. Family pa-triarch, Gabor Eotvos, along with two sons and hisdaughter-in-law are finding many new friends amongthe appreciative audiences, both children and adults.Gabor Sr. has mastered 24 different musical instru-ments and he appears to produce at least half thatnumber from the confines of his coat.

The Wee Gets are the youngest performers in theMonte Carlo Circus, consisting of Wilton, 16; Rosal-ba, 14 and Gloria, 12, the children of the AlbarracinesThey present many fast-paced hand balancing feats

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with the only props being a table and flight of stairs.Routines include two versions of a double handstand,in one Wilton is balanced on hands only while his sis-ter does a handstand stop his neck. In another feat,the boy walks down the stairs in an upright handstandwhile his sister performs a handstand stop his feet. Al-so the girls offer a free head-to-head stand with theunderstander in a full split on the table. They took anasty tumble doing the hand walk down the stairs atthe show caught. This may have been a fake fall togain more crowd interest, but I don't think so. Thetalented trio captured a significant accolade from theChildren's Jury at the Monte Carlo Festival in 1976.

Brian and Leslie Fawcett present their jungle-them-ed chimpanzee act next featuring Bu Bu, 21; Turn tielina, 10; Spitz, 5 and Brandy, 4. It's evident fromwatching these simians close-up that each one has avery distinctive personality and also they're unusuallyfriendly, which is a sign they receive good treatmentand care. The Fawcett Chimps were recently featuredin Germany's Circus Althoff.

Elvin Bale displays his world-famous "heel catching"single trap routines which won him the Gold ClownAward in 1976. He now opens the number with atricky, twisting heel catch and the climax is the for-ward dive to a heel catch. Elvin is well-known to cir-cus fans and performers and has been a Ringling fea-ture since 1969. Bom in London, Elvin has packed alot of circus into his 32 years and his aerial versatilitywas recently featured in the NBC-TV Special "CircusSuper Heroes".

During intermission a cable mesh arena is raised fromthe ring curb and the Karoly Oonnert Royal Bengaland Siberian tigers (5) open the second half of theprogram. The 33 year old Hungarian tiger trainer pre-sents routines very similar to Chariy Baumann of theRingling Blue Unit, including the beautiful tigers walk-ing on their hind legs, but with some novel twists suchas one tiger sitting upright on another tiger that is ly-ing down. The act gets into high gear when two largehorses, their upper bodies protected Upieather, areled into the arena which now holds only two tigers andthe trainer. Both tigers not only ride horseback, theyalso leap back and forth from the floor to the hone'sbacks. The Oonnert tiger act was awarded the "Prix duClub des Amis du Cirque Francais" at the Monte Carlofestival.

The Gene Mendez high wire act is presented directlyover the Royal Box seats as the show continues andthe arena is dismantled. Gene's high wire is suspendedfrom the girders and his only prop is a jump rope. Aseries of high-wattage quartz lights is suspended direct-ly over the high wire for added illumination. I wouldnot want to depend on follow spots up on a high wireeither. He walks to the main wire on his main guyline on an incline and returned into the stands via thesame route.

The Eotvos men make a short clown entree dressedas ballerinas with a springy resonate object under eachtutu which allows them to take a pratfall and bounceright back to their feet. Some of the Blue Unit clownsused this same bit last season when they presentedtheir Clown Corps de Ballet. About this point in theshow Ringmaster Sergio had taken his mike about 20rows up into the seats and was busy making newfriends. At one point in the program Sergio invited ayoung lad from the seats for a brief interview. Sergioasked the youngster if he knew where Paris was loca-ted and he got an immediate reply "In London."

The Richter Family are next with their trio of Indianelephants. The Hungarian Silver Clown Award winnerspresent acrobatics on the backs of the bulls and at onepoint an elephant does a one foot stand on a revolvingpedestal as a family member balances on the head ofthe beast in a handstand, sometimes a one-handstand.The conclusion is a back lay-out somersault to the backof a large elephant, propelled from a teeterboard byanother elephant. This stunt has been performed byGunther Gebel-Williams on Ringling Red for severalyears, but it will be new and novel to many peopleremoved from the regular Ringling routes. Ditto forElvin Bale's aerial antics.

Duo Oobritch were Silver Clown Award winners atlast year's Circus Festival for their unique perch polebalancing act. You don't see forehead supportedperch poles very often anymore and Zdravko and Cor-nelia Dobritch employ unusual props such as a bicyclethat revolves atop a slender pole. At the Monte CarloFestival Mr. Dobritch scaled a fixed pole monkey-fas-hion while balancing a long pole on his forehead withhis wife atop it. This pole has been replaced by a guy-ed out ladder and Cornelia does a handstand atop theforehead supported pole, while Zdravko is balancedat the top of the ladder. When Mrs. Dobritch doesher handstand atop the long pole she couldn't possi-bly be any higher as she's eye-level with the framesupporting the Elvin Bale trapeze and Albarracine'srigging. A safety line is employed for these feats.

The versatile Eotvos Family return again with theiracclaimed flexible bar act (often referred to as a hor-izontal bar in Europe. It is confusing if you expect tosee gymnasts swing around a fixed bar) they work inthe manner of the Mecners and more recently the Me-tchkaroffs. The Eotvos ladies are catapulted into aseries of mid-air twists, turns and somersaults from aflexible bad held in the hands of the Eotvos brothersGabor and Tibor. This voltage act was recently accor-ded the Prix de la Revue at the International Festival.

Elvin Bale returns to the spotlight as the "Phantom ofSpace" performing on the giant gyro wheel. JeanetteWilliams, although not announced, assists and eventakes a solo walk inside the self-propelled looper whiletwirling fire batons. The act is exactly the same as wasseen on Ringling Blue the past several seasons, includ-

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BILLY BARTON (Continued)

CLAUSEN CUNEO, who retired a year ago, arrived inMontreal with husband JOHN to spend a week seeingshows, dine out and have a good time in general. Shelooks great, says she does NOT miss the business at oiland has invited me to see that fabulous Frank LloydWright home when I am in Wheaton - an invitation Iplan to accept . .Has anyone noticed how much likethe fabulous RED SKELTON are JACK COOK'S fa-cial expressions and body movements? I didn't untilI heard the two compared several times by onlookersand it's true! Incidentally, the bake shop routine per-formed in tandem by Jack and ROGER "Rumpy"PRYSTANSKI is excellent.. .22 yr. old TUFFYNICHOLAS positively MUST be the Circus World'sNumber One Sex Symbol of 1979! In Montreal thegirls ran after this boy as though he were the onlymale in town. I never saw anything like it.

SETTING RECORDS STRAIGHT: A book, Worldof Clowns, by George Bishop (published by BrookHouse, L.A.) has a section on the Funny Ford whichcredits George Perkins (Perky the Clown) with creat-ing four Model T Ford clown cars the first of whichhe built and worked in 1929 on the At G. Barnesshow. BUT the very Fl RST Ford was designed andpresented by GEORGE COOK in 1924 and that or-iginal Ford is still in operation, used by the son

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REX HORTON, bear act, and GRAN MAR, high wireperformer, visited ELAINE and BOB LUND and theirMagic Museum in Marshall, Mich, late last month.

BUCKY STEELE's male elephant "Barney" was fea-tured on the cover of Road King magazine. It wa»acartoon which was a take off from his part in the^Walt Disney film "Runaway on the Rogue River."

MERLE, whose son JACK, in turn, is currently per-forming with a car Merle and Jack rebuilt from theground up in 1976. The pair bought a model T whichthey reconstructed from a storehouse of parts accu-mulated since 1924 and which they augmented withnew parts that are specially hand-crafted.

TIP for friends with sore muscles: Try BaumodyneGel, an antiseptic linament massage which can be ob-tained only through a veternarian. Jack and Patti Cooklet members of the Flying Lar-Rays and myself try itand it's the best I've ever used.

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'ii'j the fake fall from atop the wheel while Elvin is balanced blind-folded. This act is definitely an Americancontribution to the international circus world. Thecounter-balanced revolving apparatus was conceivedand patented about 30 years ago by Clay Beckett winbecame a circus performer at sixty-plus years.

The Silagis, 11 member Bulgarian teeterboard troupedisplay the sensational acrobatic skill that won themthe coveted Silver Clown Award at the InternationalFestival. If anything, the world-roured troupe has im-proved since last seen with Ringling-Barnum. Not content with an ordinary somersault to a four man high,Yanka Atanasova, the troupe's only female, does adouble back to the four man high. She overshot thefirst attempt giving Sergio an opportunity to kiss hertwice for encouragement on the second try. The troupehas also mastered the breath-taking five man high andevery possible combination resulting in a four man highhuman pyramid is included in their fast-paced, preciseand zesty repertoire.

Sergio then brings back all the circus artists for a finalbow and they line the ring curb in the finest Europeantradition. When the band stood up and applauded therewas almost a standing ovation, but it would have beenbetter here to just let the crowd show their apprecia-tion in their own way. After the performers left the

arena Sergio became even more joyful than earlier andwent over to the bandstand and took the baton awayfrom Robert Franklin and led the band for its exitmarch, and they played until the arena was nearlyempty. Sergio remained on the floor to sign autographsand talk with anyone that cared to meet him. As dif-ficult as his guttural English is to comprehend forAmericans (a blue collar type man behind me kept re-marking it sounded like Jacques Cousteau was in thecircus) over the mike, there's little doubt that Sergiois going to make a lot of new friends for the circus.Because of Sergio the Monte Carlo Circus seems like avery friendly show, much more friendlier than mostother shows.

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FLORIDA NOTES ... by Circus Joe Valenciano

The Florida State Fair, operating from April 4 to 15features the following talent: Chic, a disco group; Or.Hook, rock and roll; Country music stars Eddie Rab-bitt, The Kendalls, Bill Anderson, Fertin Husky, plusmusical stars such as Anita Bryant, The Dukes ofDixieland, Jim Schwall Band, The Harmonicats, TheMurphy Family, and the Ink Spots.Back after a few years absence is the Sprint Car Au-to Races, driving on a new half-mile oval din track.On the Fair's midway is the Royal American Showswith the latest in thrill rides and attractions. Also atthe fair are such features as a Hot Air Balloon Race,Parades, Disco Dancing, Sky Diving, American Bow-ling Congress and the Cypress Gardens Water SkiShow.

Show ReportFlorida's Egypt Temple Shrine Circus was producedby Garden-Johnson Circus and included a programbook which carried a front cover photo of Bill Kormpates, high act performer. Also featured on the pro-gram book was Don Witt, who sold more than $4000in ads alone for the temple.Advance sales of tickets for the circus were reported-ly up 30% over that of last year. The sale of adver-tising and promotional material was also up over theprevious year's sales.The circus program included: Spec, "Circus on Par-ade"; Red Hartman, wild animals; The Cavanaughsand The Armstrongs, aerialists; Cuccillo, trampoline;Clown Number; George's Camels; Medro's Dogs; Rizzi's llamas; Clowns; Gina, sword balancing; Gilberto,bounding rope; Hanzini, sword balancing; The Zapata Bros., high wire; Alberto Zoppe, mixed animalrevue; Aerial Ballet; Intermission; The Great Korm-pates, high act; Maria, Carla and Janie, equestrians;Adele & Gory, comedy gorilla; Clowns; The Alber-to Riding Academy; Armondo and Ms. Medro, bal-ancing; Clowns, Circus elephants; The Flying Car-rolls; Finale.

HAZEL PHILLIPS has been named Chairperson forthe Ladies Luncheon for the CFA Convention whichwill be held in conjunction with the Beatty-Cole Circus.

ROBERT HOCUM who is making his European de-but with the Blackpool Tower Circus will go on tourwith the Circus Baruni in Germany. Also appearingat the Blackpool Tower Circus is the Salvadors.

ApriLfl, 1979

Circus Fans from Texas report the Jungle WondersCircus has been playing that state and is presentingan impressive appearance, with a good program. At-tendance has been good at all stands.The show is using a two pole big top, with aluminumpoles. They have a fork lift and cables to guy out thetent. The midway includes a red and white marquee,plus the show's animals as a free attraction. Some ofthe animals displayed are: cats, bear, camel, llama,guanaco, white rhino, 7 elephants, etc.The program is presented in one ring, which is sur-rounded by quartz lights. Music is provided by anorgan with a good speaker system. The acts are: catact. wire, elephant, dogs, ropes, pony, juggling, llamatraps, chimp, pony drill, web, dogs, zebra, dog andpony, hair hang, plates, horses, cloud swing and ele-phant number.

Last month New York's Supreme Court Justice Ed-ward Greenfield ruled that 103 year old New Yorklaw which prohibits youngsters from appearing ina circus was unconstitutional.

The ruling came as a result of a suit filed on behalfof seven youngsters who perform with the Ringling-Barnum Circus.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil-dren was named in the suit, but the Judge ruled the.Society's role was moot because a recent change inthe law had reduced its participation to that of con-sultant, with the final decision to be made by theMayor's office.

Last year the Society filed charges against the circusduring its Madison Square Garden engagement. Theyattempted to have the children removed from thecircus performance.

ED BERG has been hospitalized for several weeksand would enjoy hearing from friends in and out ofshow business. Write him at: 6433 West 82nd Place,Burtaank, III. 60459.

LUCY LOYAL, former show girl with the Carson &Barnes Circus, is now touring with the Mel SMverlakeFisher Bros. Circus.FRED WENDANY recently celebrated his 72nd birthday while appearing with the Funs-A-Poppin Circus.Other members of that circus who recently celebra-ted birthdays are: DOLORES CORONADO, HEIDIWENDANY and LIBBY FERRIS.

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