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1954 • Aug. 13-14 • Polack Bros. Western1955 -June 8-9 -Ward Bell Circus1956 - Apr. 18-19 - Rudy Bros. Circus1957 - Apr. 15-16 - Rudy Bros. Circus1958 - June 13-14 - Rudy Bros. Circus1959 - June 6 - Rudy Bros. Circus1960 - June 6 - Rudy Bros. Circus1961 • Apr. 19 - Ken Jensen Circus1962 - May 2 - Ken Jensen Circus1963 - Apr. 24 - Ken Jensen Circus1964 - Apr. 20 - Ken Jensen Circus1965 - Apr. 19 - Ken Jensen Circus1966 • Apr. 16 • Ken Jensen Circus1967 - Apr. 15 - Ken Jensen Circus1968 - Apr. 11 • Ken Jensen Circus1969 - Apr. 10 • Reppine's Int'l1970-Apr. 14- Reppine's Int'l1971 - Apr. 12- Reppine's Int'l1972-Apr. 8-9-Reid Bros.1973-Apr. 10- Reid Bros.1974 - Apr. 22 - Grand Circus Safari1975-May 13-Grand Circus Safari1976 - May 17 • Grand Circus Safari1977 - May 10 - Grand Circus Safah1978 - None1979 • Apr. 17 - Grand Circus Safari

In 1954 the ttrcus was presented in the HighSchool Stadium. In 1955 the circus was pre-sented under canvas. AH other dates havebeen presented in the Jr. High School Gym.

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HOW ABOUT the show that opened earlyin Spring? It was so cold that the announ-cer's words came out of his mouth like icecubes, they had to put them on the cookhouse griddle to thaw to find out what hewas saying.

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from William Wotsch

In the Spring of April 1940, it was once againrodeo time at the Cleveland Arena. Col. JimEskew and his J. E. Ranch Rodeo played ourbuilding. We put up corrals in the back yard,and had to put cattle fencing around the hoc-key facilities, plus dirt for the floor.One of the big names on the program was WildBill Elliott (Gordon Elliott) the western moviestar. He was starring in the Wild Bill Hickokseries and was very popular.One day while we were sitting in our arena backyard, Wild Bill Elliott asked us where a personcould get something to eat. We pointed to asmall diner across the way and then he askedus to join him for dinner. This certainly madeus feel good, a western movie star asking us togo along and eat with him.Junior Eskew did his trick and fancy roping,and there was also Buddy Medford, Chip Mor-ris and his horse, plus the usual bronco bustin'numbers, steer wrestling, roping calves, bullriding and barrel racing.The program cost 25c and on the front was aphoto of the western star appearing with theshow. Inside were photos of a rodeo in action.It also had an article explaining the judging ofdifferent rodeo events.Then each program had a number and if thatnumber was called out during intermission thelucky person won a prize. A lot of prizes weregiven away, but the main one was a Ford V*8given away on the last day of the rodeo.That was really a bargain - a program for 25c,plus prizes and a chance on a car. You couldn'tbeat that!

ROYAL CROWN CIRCUS

An advance promotion and ticket sale accountsfor the major sale of circus tickets for the Roy-al Crown Circus. Tickets are priced from $3.50to $8.50.Krystali (Jack Master) directs the show in asmooth manner, moving from one illusion toan act, back to an illusion. He makes good ustof a miniature flame thrower in each hand,each of which sends out a flame 5 to 6 feet,with flash pots exploding wherever he points.In addition to the usual circus acts the showthis year features two specialty acts:Krystali's Kra/y Kara consists of eight minia-ture cars. One is an accordion-type auto withthe rear end standing still while the front endmoves ahead for about 30 feet, then the rearrushes to catch up with the front. Another carhas two front ends, each trying to go their ownway until they stretch out for some 20 feet.One car actually walks about the show ring,and one unit looks like a small fire truckwith a trailer and a huge siren. The trailer con-sistently gets in the way of the front end.Another feature on the show is the Royal Lep-echaun Horses, eight full grown horses meas-uring just 19 to 23 inches high. They do a var-iety of routines, then four jump over the backsof the other four, all at the same time as theycircle the ring, sort of like playing leap frog. Atthe end of the act several larger horses are in-troduced.

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"It's very wrong to compare the Senate to acircus because a circus is better organized andalways knows where it's going."

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Show DatesAh Ghan Shrine Circus

July 21 Hagerstown, Md.

Big Apple CircusJuly 19-27 Brooklyn, NY

Garden-Johnson CircusJuly 14 Keokuk, lOwa

15 Columbus Junction16 Muskatine17 Clinton

18-19 Davenport20 Washington

Canon & Barnes CircusJuly 14 Wells, Minn.

15 Faribault16 St. Peter17 Marshall18 Brookings, S.D.19 Huron

Circus Arts TroupeJuly 15-16 Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Circus City FestivalJuly 16-19 Peru, Ind.

Circus MaranthaJuly 14-20 Baltimore, Md.

Circus VargasJuly 19 Rock Springs, Wyom.

Hoxie Bros. CircusJuly 14 Lyndhurst, NJ

15 Secaucus16 Valhalla, NY17 Middletown18 Ellenville19 Kingston20 Clifton Park

Hubler Int'l CircusJuly 19 Oakland, Md.

20 Cumberland

Int'l All Star CircusJuly 12 Beacon, NY

Make-A-CircusJuly 15 San Francisco, Calif.

Pickle Family CircusJuly 15-16 Nevada City, Calif.

19-20 Sacramento

RingJing-Barnum - Blue UnitJuly 15-29 Inglewood. Calif.

Ringling-Barnum - Red Unitto July 20 Houston, Texas

Roberts Bros. CircusJuly 14 Manchester, N.H.

15 Wilmington18 Dawson, Pa.19 Oakland20 Cumberland

Royal Crown CircusJuly 15-16 Alma Gordo, NM

18 Carlsbad20 Hobbs

Royal Hanneford CircusJuly 12-Aug. 10 Rye, NY

Swan Bros. Circusto July 19 Santa Rosa, Calif.

TNT& Royal Olympic CircusJuly 18-20 Bemidji, Minn.

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Mr. FingersJuly 16 St. Louis, Mo.

17-20 St. Louis

Manzini - Escape Artistto Sept. 1 Lake George, NY

Prof. Miller's Magic Time USAJuly 14 Galena, III.

15 Clinton, Iowa16 Spring Valley, III.17 Princeton

Tom Ogdento Aug. 24 Sheffield, Mass.

P.C.A.M. ConventionJuly 16-18 Portland, Oregon

.... OTHER DATES-••Erik & Bobbi Adams

July 16-23 Wm. Kay Circus

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HAMID-MORTON's final date was Hemp-stead, L. I., a new one, the last week in June.JORGE BARREDA came on to play thatweek when WADE BURCK left to take hiswhite tigers to the annual summer park date• Marineland.

DARRYL WALLEN has added two acts tohis new package which includes DONNA MARIE and "Cabaret" a high school horse work-ed on long reins, and a miniature albino mulefor the small fry. These acts in addition to(of course) the remarkable "Mr. Rythm."

CAROL WAINWRIGHT created a six pagesingle spaced "newsletter" which she mailedout (the "newsletter" was created especiallyfor their close friends LEIGH and NANCYHEIGHSINGE R now with Circus Knie). Thele t t e r tells in minutest detail of their recenttour in Japan with PAUL V. KAYF. Well, it'sa novelette and I confess to only skimming it,my time being so limited nowadays, but itcertainly was an "epic-effort". Carol. AndI'm sure Leigh and Nancy enjoyed it.

ELFIE KLEMENTI did "Mary Kay" facialsfor a woman's group in Reno as she, alongwith RUTHIE CLARK (Estreleta) have be-come Mary Kay Beauty Consultants. I'm suremost of my femme readers know that thisenterprise was started by a woman in Texaswhich has mushroomed nationwide. TheKlementis are still in the "Bedazzle" show atLake Tahoe and recently they visited withRON RITAS, SERGIO and MITZIE RAMOS,in Reno and Elfie tells me the Ronritas aregoing to (and by this time are) at CC in LasVegas.SNAPSHOTS: That new clown this season

with Hamid-Morton was MACK ESHLEMANof Eshleman Meat Co., in Lemoyne, Pa., asuburb of Harrisburg and only 50 miles fromme. Mack is also a member of the ShrineTemple in Harrisburg.. .AL and LYDIABURKETT created a newstroblite finishthey used for the first time in Pittsburghwith Hamid-Morton.. .SUSAN ZOPPE'sbrother and sister STEPHEN and SANDYvisited in St. Louis.. .The FELDSset Holi-day on Ice at the Aladdin Hotel in Vegasfor a month .. .A new juggler joined thecast of Flamingo's Razzle-Dazzleshow. Hisname is JEAN CLAUDE.. .MURILLO andULISES are in the 15th edition of the Folies

Bergere along with the MARQUIS CHIMPSTIBI YOUNG has constructed a new act

for EVA - a huge descending globe (drapedin black that Eva gets into - presumably in thethe dark as I haven't seen it yet) and as itrises, it slowly opens to become the petals ofa flower. Eva then does a revolving trap re-plete with lighting effects.. JOSIP MARC ANreportedly has eight young tigers being hetdfor him by RON WHITFIELD at Marineland•Africa USA.. .The famed CHIPPERFIELDSfrom England were on hand to watch CircusVargas set up and tear down.. .The GAU-CHOS, on CV last year, now at Busch Gardensin Tampa.. .ZAPATA is in the Los AngelesCounty Hospital, very ill. During the Los Ang-eles area engagements of the American Contin-ental Circus MARTHA SUAREZ visited himfrequently.. .Visitors to Circus Vargas recent-ly included TV personality SHEILA McCRAEand her family.. .WALL Y ROSS and DICKDRAKE were in Florida working on a movie,(the BURT REYNOLDS flick, I think).. .Anew white tiger was born Dec. 23rd to the joyof S I E G R I E D and ROY who, incidentally,have a five year pact with the Felds for TVspecials.. .TOM HENRICKS is the organizerbehind the ALBERT and JEANETTE RIXTENT in Toledo and he tells me there arenow over 40 members. He is working hard tomake this tent a success.. .When RED SKEL-TON was guest ringmaster in Columbus, Ohiowith Castle, he presented AL ROSS with alarge check commemorating Al's 50th yearin show business. I first met Al when I wasabout 9 years old.. .At Circus World in Bar-aboo is JON FRIDAY and the HERRIOTTfamily.. .CINDY is doing cloud-swing, HEI-Di is doing single traps, MARY RUTH is pre-senting her poodle revue, JOHN rides an Ap-paloosa stallion, and the entire family pre-sents the 3 large bulls owned by DOREYMILLER. Also on the bill are ADA SMIEYAand her tigers and lions, and JIMMY WIL-LIAMS "Happy the Clown".JON FRIDAY writes the Castle show had

TWO tight wire acts featuring the back som-ersault recently with RICAROO CANES-TRELLI and CHRIS JAMES.. .BEN DeWAYNE - on dates with the Paul Kaye ele-

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Show DatesBuffalo Bill Days

July 20 Golden, Colo.

Burr's Fun-0-RamaJuly 14-20 Buzzards Bay, Mass

Dondi, the ElephantJuly 14-30 Baltimore, Md.

James H. Drew ExpositionJuly 14-19 Olney. III.

Firemen's MusterJuly 19-20 San Jose. Calif.

Fpley & Burk Showsto July 19 Santa Rosa. Calif.

Frontier DaysJuly 18-27 Cheyenne, Wyom.

Grund Western Collectionto July 20 San Jose, Calif.

Hall & Christ AttractionsJuly 15-20 Madison, Wsc.

17-27 Chicago. III.

Jubilee MinstrelsJuly 9-13 Berkeley, Calif.

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Mighty Thomas ShowsJuly 14-19 Red Deer, Albta.

RoyaJ American Showsto July 26 Rockford, III.

Royal Lipizzan StallionsJuly 18-19 San Bernardino, Calif.

TheSikorskys -Jugglersto July 27 Salem, NH

Frank Strout • western actJuly 17-19 El Dorado, Ark.

Tent TroupeJuly 14 Madison, Ind.

15 Seymour16 Columbus

17-19 Bloomington

Tip Top Shows Blue UnitJuly 15-20 Seymour, Wise.

Tip Top Shows - Green UnitJuly 15-20 Baraboo, Wise.

Ventriloquist ConventionJuly 17-19 Ft. Mitchell, Ky

White House in MiniatureJuly 18-27 Philadelphia, Pa.

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CIRCUS MARANATHA

by Allen Babcock

After several days of rain and threatening tor-nados, the skies cleared and May 31st, theday Circus Maranatha arrived in OeCatur, HI.was a beautiful day.The show set up on the local football fieldand the performance was presented at 7 p.m.with about 2000 people attending. Admissionwas free, with everyone given an opportunityto make a donation towards helping with thecircus expenses.The program opened with a half hour of re-ligious songs, led by a local church choir. Af-ter this there was an invocation, the NationalAnthem and an overture, with the circus per-formance following. It included: Olinka, slidefor life; The Valla Duo; Clown; Olinka, web;P. J. Theron (Capt. Explodo); Tino, comedylamp post; Intermission; Col. J. P. and hisTank; The Bertinis, unicycle; J. P., comedybike; Tino and Olinko, high wire.After the program Tino gave a religious ser-mon and invited people to follow the Lord.Several people went forward to indicate theiracceptance of the Lord,The following day all of the circus peoplewere guests of the Four Square Church, andTino gave a fine message at the evening ser-vice. That message and others were filmedfor TV's P.T.L. Club and were shown be-tween June 30th and July 4th.

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il-TiFUNS-APOPPIN CIRCUS

by Parley Baer

Several times during the tatter part of theschool year, Ernestine, myself and ArthurBarrett caught Betty Wendany's Funs-A-Poppin Circus at different schools in and aboutthe San Fernando Valley in Southern Calif-ornia.The first thing to catch the eye was the neat-ness and orderliness of the show on the var-ious lots. Everything was brightly and new-ly painted, arranged in an eye-pleasing fas-hion, and side wall, bleachers and rigging ar-ranged to immediately capture the fancy ofthose attending.In addition to the general excellence of theshow itself, was the evident joy of all person-nel during the performances. With only 45minutes or an hour between shows, duringwhich time the ring, seats and grounds werecleaned up and picked up and everything wasmade spick and span for the on-coming per-formance, spirit and enthusiasm never flag-ged.Betty Wendany, herself, sets the spirit and at-titude of the show. Never a let-down, neversettling back, she makes each performanceseem like the first one of the day. Ringmis-tressing the show in an excellent clown makeup, and working as "Betty Spaghetti" shesets a fast pace, keeps it up and everyoneelse does a "quick two-four" to keep upwith her.A "family show" in fact, as well as advertis-ed, Ms. Wendany makes several "smaller"west coast shows - both current and past -look to their laurels. The performance isstrong, it's clean, it's happy and there's no"con". Several so-called showmen working

in this area could learn a lot from "Funs-A-Poppin."

Betty's talented daughter, Heidi, is a joy towatch. That she loves what she's doing ismore than evident. Hot sun, hard black-top,standing room only or a sparse handful, Hei-di is a trouper and all that it implies. She'sgreat.

Here's a line up of the performance, whichvaries only slightly from school to school.Betty Wendany greets the audience warmly,with a brief explanation as to the sponsorand the good-works of the sponsor, then goesinto her Betty Spaghetti routine (Betty notonly announces the show, fills some of thespots, but also operates the taped and record-ed music. The music, incidentally, has beenwell selected and provides very good back-ground music for all the acts. Betty's care inchoosing and in operating the turn-tablesadds much to the professionalism of the op-eration).

After Betty's intro, a fast, well-trained dogact worked by the versatile Heidi opens theshow; Magic Bag, clown number worked byeither Betty or her colleague "Silly Milly"(both Betty and Milly get the laughs); thencomes "Willie the Goat" a large white goattrained and presented by clown "Gene-Genethe Rock and Roll Machine"; swinging lad-der featuring Linda Miller, assisted by RussCamp; Tug-0-War with an assortment ofkids from the audience is presented by GeneGene; Heidi Wendany presents a slick ponydrill of beautifully matched Welsh ponies(two of the mares had foaled and their twooffspring were presented much to the delightof the youngsters).Betty and Milly alternated with "Make ItBigger" the balloon gag; Trampoline fun by

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WILLIE LESTER, ventriloquist, was a gueston the Mike Douglas TV Show on July 7th.

MARK WILSON, magician-illusionist, was aguest on the John Davidson TV Show onJuly 7th.

GLEN FALKENSTEIN, illusionist, was aguest on the Merv Griffin TV Show on July8th.

THE AMAZING KRESKIN was a guest onthe Mike Douglas TV Show on July 9th.

JAY JOHNSON, ventriloquist, was a gueston the John Davidson TV Show on July 11.

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CIRCUS CONTINENTAL

by Rev. George C. Bingaman

Circus Continental played five dates in Hershey, Pa., in connection with the First An-nual Superdooper Fair, held in Hershey'sstadium near Hershey Park, on June 17 to22. Produced by Klein's Attractions underthe management of Robert Kaltenbach thecircus has been appearing throughout thenation in spot, non-tour situations.Circus Continental is a nifty one hour, high-ly-appealing and entertaining one ring showplayed under a Leaf rented canvas big top,presenting a neat, well-dressed decor. Thecome-in clowning was handled by MiddyStreeter, Larry Rich and Phyllis Guggenheimwho also performed their shenanigans be-tween acts with several routines.The show moved without delay under thewhistling of ringmaster Bob Bellows and amusical combo headed by Warren Kime,trumpet, Harold Kremser, organ and RickSmiley, drums. A diversified series of animaland skill acts made the program appealing tochildren of all ages.Carmen del Molina, Queen of the SilverStrand, opened the order of displays with alovely and attractive performance on thelow wire. Announced as "just from the MGMHotel in Las Vegas" Carmen showed her su-perb class with a foot-propelled hoop, a twolegged table and board cola bola series.Clark's cats took the audience to the steelcage of five young, healthy and lively lions,one male, four females, who under the direc-tion of Mike and Missie Clark delighted theaudience with roll-overs, jump-overs, group

si t -ups , a walk-over Missie lying helpless onthe suspended bar, and Leoness the flag waver. A great new cat act.After a crowd-delighting clown tug-o-war fea-turing Josie, the World's Strongest Woman,Giovanni's Pi//a Surprise entertained with anovel, comic, acrobatic plate spinning act,much superior to most plate spinning seenunder canvas and in circuses. John and Christel Albert! are veteran show people who knowhow to please the public with poliched pro-fessionalism in their skill.Following the tooth-extraction gag, JohnsonsBears pleased the audience with a grouo of 4ursines. black bears whose entertainment fea-tured Bernice the Kissing Bear climaxed bythe foot-balanced flaming bar.

Carmen and Hunk Albert! returned with Alberti's Poodles (8), spirited and happy canineswho bow-wowed the audience with an ssort-ment of tricks, climaxing in the poodle modeling fashion show.Middy, Larry and Phyllis continued theirclownigans with the Baby Carriage Gag be-fore LaVonne's Cloud Swing, as good as an\slack rope swing this reviewer has seen in adecade. Teenager Yvonne Johnson presentsan attractive aerial performance in polishedsmooth professionalism closing with appro-priate fireworks, a super act.The di Pietro Canestrelli Family provided arousing close to a fine show with acrobaticsteeterboard Musketeering. The eight Canes-trelli's are a prime example of circus familysolidarity proving again that circus familylife not only produces outstanding circusskills but also superb parent-child relation-ships, that nuture wholesome healthy andmoral youth.

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COA CONVENTION

by John "Krako" Guthrie

Clowns of America held its 11th annual Con-vention in Denver, Colo., April 16-20. Overfour hundred clowns from thirty-six states,Puerto Rico, Nova Scotia and Canada attend-ed the event.During the four day convention there wereseminars on make-up, puppets, juggling, ma-gic, props, along with two lectures and showsby clowns from St. Louis (Ickle Pickle) andSan Jose, Calif. (Rainbow). The audience forthese shows were made up of nearby schoolchildren. A total of eight educational sessionswere offered during the convention.The nights were filled with entertainmentfrom bands, dealers show, and on Saturdaynight a show by a ventriloquist and a localmagician. During the afternoon on Saturdayover 130 clowns were in assorted beautifulcostumes and make-up for the annual walkaround make-up and costume contest. Therewere ten winners in the White Face, Auguste,Tramp and Character class. They were alltruly winners. The TV show "Real People"

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was there to film the convention and it willbe featured in their show in September.Clowns of America is a national and now aninternational organization and is growingeach year. Members have the opportunity toreceive the monthly publication "Calliope"and this is the only national magazine dedi-cated to "clowning". It is truly the only ma-gazine published which features "informa-tion" for clowns about clowns. Many of thecircus clowns are members of COA, alongwith clowns and people from every walk oflife.Next year's convention will be held in Wis-consin and then in 1982 it will be held inNew Mexico. Ctowns of America is a tun or-ganization and their members are "truly"fun people.

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GERRY COTTLE'S CIRCUS CLOSES

by Jack Niblett

Gerry Catt le's Circus folded its tents for thelast time on June 7th, and the circus has goneinto a state of voluntary liquidation.Cottle, still a young man, has been presentingcircus performances for the last ten years,firstly, in partnership with Brian Austen, asCottle and Austen's Circus, and then as Ger-ry Cottle's Circus, Ltd., and built up his showswiftly, until it became one of England's lar-gest traveling shows, occasionally fieldingtwo units. Regarded by many as an innova-tor, Gerry introduced new presentations andequipment, presented large scale London sea-sons, secured many lucrative television con-tracts and organized overseas tours.During 1979, plagued by financial difficultiesGerry was forced by his creditors to modifyhis operations, and he was partially success-ful in trimming his budget.A disastrous pre-revolution Iran engagementfor which no payment was ever received, un-successful winter engagements, inflation and

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JIM DALE, a British music hall performer, isstarring in the Broadway musical "Barnum",which also features MARIANNE TATUM asJenny Lind.

JACK BENNETT recently visited with CLAY-TON MOORE (The Lone Ranger) and reportshe spent four hours or so discussing show bus-iness.

PEG BAKER, of Stockton. Calif., will returnto the stage this month when she tours sever-al California fairs with her juggling act.

CLARK McDERMOTT has returned to Texasafter playing the Poplar Bluff Shrine date withhis Cold Nose Five act. He is presently traininga new dog for the act.

RAY BRETHOUR, show artist, got startedpainting circus equipment when he was in NewZealand and the Wirth Circus asked him topaint their show for the Auckland, NZ date.

(M.7.) JOHNNIE MARSHALL visited KellyBros. Circus at Wellsville, Mo. on June 2nd.He reports that BRAD FRANK was doing theannouncing in addition to his family acts.

BOB KEESHAN, who played Clarabell theClown on the old Howdy Doody Show isnow known as Captain Kangaroo.

LaMONDE LATISHA JACOB), daughter ofCAROLINE and RUDY JACOB), recently

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MEL HALL writes he is looking forward tovisiting the Ringling-Barnum Circus when itplays Lake Charles. La., on July 22-23.

FRANK DEAN, trick roper, and SKEETERVAUGHAN, knife thrower, taped a segmentof the new "You Bet Your Life" TV series.They competed against each other and theprize they won can be seen when you watchthe show.

BLACKSTONE, the Magician, has been setas part of the annual stage show series whichis presented annually in San Francisco. He isto appear in that city in December.

DAVE TWOMEY and his Happytime Circus,BRUCE ANDERSON, high sway pole act performer, WINI McKAY, trapeze star, CHES-TER CABLE, foot juggler and VANDER-

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MEIDA, hypnotist, were the featured freeacts at the Pleasanton. Calif., fair this year.

JUANITA "Mini-Ha-Ha" HOLDCRAFT, en-tertained the children of the Unity Churchof Dallas during a summer retreat in June.

CLIFFORD KRUEGER, Wisconsin StateSenator, sponsored Franzen Bros. Circus asa fund raising program for his current electioncampaign.

ED McMAHON, of the Johnny Carson TVShow was a circus clown in the early 1950'sTV show "Big Top".

VAN CHAUVIN (Blossom) and BIL PENNY(Uncle Will). Arlington, Texas, clowns, areteaching "Introduction to Clowning" to gift-ed children from disadvantaged families at aTexas college.

BILLY BARTY, THE WILLETTYS, GENEBELL and THE STEPPIN' STONES were fea-tured on the July 5-6 vaudeville show presen-ted at the fair in Pleasanton. Calif.

PAUL WINCHELL. well-known ventriloquist,holds the patent for a plastic heart pump thatthus far has proved successful in animals.

MIKE SPORRER. regular contributor to CR,has been elected to the CFA's Board of Dir-ectors.

GEORGE HANNEFORD will bring his circusto the Illinois State Fair in the fall.

FLECKLES CIRCUS Poplar Bluff Mo.June 19 -20

The program for the Shrine Circus at PoplarBluff, Mo., shows the following acts:Barreda's wild animals; the Munoz Sisters,aerialists; Cimse's Poms and Wolfhounds;Pancho Magana, whips; Princess Sunshine,sword balance; Los Argentines, perch; theFlying Aztecas; Chimps; Lou Ann Jacobs.aerialist; Johnny Luxem, high wheel.After intermission: The Cold Nose Five pre-sented by Clark McDermott; Janie's Dober-mans; The Bertinis, swinging perch; The Oscarian Troupe, risley; Zamperla Riding act;Joselito, high wire; Elephants and Finale.

MiscellaneousCircus Fans in Arizona raised the John StrongTent at Prescott, Ariz., on June 20th. Cere-monies were under the direction of CFA Pre-sident Fred Reed and Tent President JohnMcGinn and were held under the show bigtop.All members of the Big John Strong Circuswere guests of the Arizona fans at a buffetheld in the home of Barbara and John MeGinn. John Strong attended the event, withhis wife, Gudron. and daughters Nicole andSandy, and son Terrell.

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Your writer and Byron Walker (P. 0. Box3186, San Leandro, Ca. 94578) have fortun-ately obtained a supply of LEE GRABEL pos-ters which will be offered for sale.Lee Grabel. who Arnold Furst, in his FamousMagicians of the World Book ($3.00 plus 59cpostage) said he "might someday be consid-ered as the world's greatest magician," hasn'ttoured for a while, but he is planning to doso again in 1981 or 1982. Once you are ashowman you are always infested with the de-sire to travel and perform. But what problemsawait the present day big magic show! Infla-tion, gasoline, animal restrictions, insurance,unions, inadequate stages, to name a few. Butperform he will and perform he must.The big Grabel posters are also a thing of thepast, now it's window cards, photos and news-paper publicity, so the two sheets we have arerecords of a fading age.

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One poster in very snort supply is that of theGrave! Floating Piano, a show feature that hasobtained more front page publicity AFTER ashow than any other illusion. These postersare $35.00.The other poster is also a two sheet and hasthe Grabel portrait and is $25.00We also have a panel of the cannon illusion aspresented by Grabel for $10.00. Mailing is aproblem since expensive lubes must be ob-tained, so add $2.00 to your order for post-age and handling, and we will include a copyof the Grabel pitch book which bears a $3.50price and besides the usual tricks there are se-veral photos of show action. Alone the bookis $2.00 with postage 4k. The Floating Pianois shown on the back cover.Grabel uses some Dante illusions in his showand at one time actice correspondence wasunderway for him to take over the Dante showCopies of these letters are on my desk and willbe used in an article in the Journal of MagicalHistory. This occured during the big depres-sion (what we have today is a recession) sothe deal was never carried to fruition. But theletters show in what high esteem Dante heldLee Grabel and how often times and hopesand plans just don't work out.

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Rock Springy Wyoming, is having more circusactivity this year than they've seen in a longtime. The city has suddenly become a popularshow site because of its population growth,and because it is a good spot to to play as abreak in a long jump.Here are the show dates thus far for that city:June 27 - Garden-Johnson CircusJuly 10-11 Big John Strong CircusJuly 19 - Circus VargasIn addition to the above shows, the city alsoplayed host to a carnival early this month.

JOHN and MIKE W1NN, high wire and aerialmotorcycle performers, worked at Knott'sBerry Farm on July 4th, then went to the bigOrange County (Calif.) Fair. Later they willgo into Kenny wood Park. So far this year thetwo performers have crossed the country se-ven times.

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BILL BURGER has been booking dates in thePacific Northwest for the Big John Strong Cir-cus. He plans to rejoin the show, where he w;llhave the front door, as soon as his presentschedule is completed.

MIKE FARING, well-known showman is nowworking with the Foley & Burk Shows.

ENOCH BRAFFORD made a trip east to beat his brother's funeral. He will soon rejointhe Big John Strong Circus for the remainderof its 1980 tour.

WINI McKAY and CHESTER CABLE, COM-pleted their date at the Alameda County Fairin Pleasanton, Calif., then jumped to a datein Fresno, Calif. Wini also has an engagementwith a rock concert in Southern California.

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Mindy and Henry Crowell; "Circus Game"clown gag with audience participation; 'Ko-§ar the Gorilla' which properly 'scares' thesmall fry in the audience; Hula Hoop con-test with kids from the audience participa-ting and the winners get prize tickets thatprovides a choice of goodies from the con-cession wagon. (Betty adroitly manages thisso there are no losers and everyone has agood time).The next spot is the "Higher and Higher"clown gag, well known and well done byBetty and Gene-Gene; Miss Linda Miller re-turns with a Spanish web routine, then comesPapa Fred Wendany with a different and real-ly pleasing dog act. Seasoned performer thathe is Papa Fred still looks and acts as he didwhen he was with the Ringlmg show.LindaMiller presents the "Elephant Dog" a happylittle terrier in a very-well made elephantsuit. Apparently most of the kids in the SanFernando Valley had never seen this before,because every show had the young-uns of-fering shouts of delight for this number.Heidi returns at this point with her Morganstallion "Billy Tin Gun" in a well-done dres-sage routine. In spite of the fact that thehorse was working on black-top Heidi and"Billy" came off very well and at most per-formances caught this seemed to be the high

spot of the show.Clown number with the falling eggs gotstrong results and Sporty the Wonder Dogdid a High Dive and everyone worked in thefinale.

The show was pleasing to youngsters and toparents alike, and we heard many commentson the calibre of the show and the extremecleanliness of the entire operation. The smallworking crew were clean and neat, workingin light blue jump suits. They seemed to en-joy their part as much as the performers.Concessions were priced sensibly and every-one in the audience was "lickin" or "chom-pin" all the time.All in all the three of us found each perfor-mance we attended thoroughly pleasing andvery nostalhic. If ever a show deserved suc-cess this one does. Quite evidently it is pri-marily a one woman operation and Betty isthat woman. She merits success and a lotof sponors other than schools would be wiseto book Funs-A-Poppm.Long may they roll!

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White elephants are a symbol of good fortunein Thailand, and by law they automatically become the property of the king.

So, the discovery of a year-old white elephantwas expected to be an occasion for rejoicingin the royal household. Instead the news hasbeen received with some restraint.King Bhumibol Adulyadej apparently is up tchere in white elephants • so much so thatthey threaten to really become "white ele-phants."

Under Thai law, all white elephants automa-tically become the property of the king. Butthe king already has a dozen white elephantsand more is not necessarily better in thesedays of thundering inflation.The care and feeding of the royal elephantsis no small matter, says the elephant expertwho has served the royal family for 50 yrs.Inflation has pushed the cost of care up to$5,000 a month, he said. And while the ele-phants are not exactly eating the king out ofhouse and home, they do consume threetruckloads of grass daily, in addition to vastquantities of bananas, sweet potatoes andsugar cane. It takes a staff of 10 to look af-ter the elephants.Not too many years ago the royal court usedto send a portraitist to paint a newly discov-ered white elephant so the king could have alook at him - or her - and decide whether theanimal was suitable for the royal herd. Todayas an economy move, a color photograph willdo.

Although described as a perfect specimen, thenewly discovered white elephant is certain toundergo rigorous scrutiny before being accep-ted.

There are it seems, three grades of white ele-phants: the pre-eminent or No. 1 white ele-phant, the "unique" and the merely rare.The newly found white elephant is said topossess the seven physical characteristics thatput him in the top class. These are whiteeyes, white palate, white tail hair, white nails,white hair, white skin and white testicles.Elephants have a long and honorable historyin Thailand. Warrior elephants, the tanks oftheir day, once saved the Thai kingdom frominvading Burmese.

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ANNETA "Jingles" MOERBE, a Dallasclown, recruited seven Alley 85 Clowns andseveral other notables to be bid runners,board workers, auctioneers and man thephones for Dallas' Channel 13 auction.

FRANK and JANET BURGER recently completed an engagement in Maine and will nowbe working spot dates during the summer.

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER, star of 19 Tarzanfilms, is living in Acaputco with his wife,MARIA. Stricken by a stroke two years agohe is unable to speak, but •. t r i enjoy; hear-ing from his many fans. Send cards and let-ters to him at: Acapulco, Mexico. The postoffice will deliver them directly to him.

ZANITA, juggler and rolling globe artist, wasone of the feature acts appearing at the July7-19 fair in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Thank you for reading Circus Reportthis week • we hope you have enjoyedthe issue and will tell your friendsabout the paper. They might also wantto become a regular reader.

But white elephants have never been trainedas fighters. Instead, because of their rareity,they are considered august omens of peaceand prosperity. Actually, of course, they arealbinos.

There is a Thai proverb that says to know awoman you must look at her mother, toknown an elephant you must look at its tail.Precisely what an elephant's tail proves issomehow lost in translation, but it helps ifthe tail is long, especially if it is a white ele-phant seeking admission to the royal circleIt's eyes should look like a cow's;Sexual vigor is also vital, regardless of whe-ther the elephant is male or female.The sexual vigor of one of the king's ele-phants - a 25 yr. old male in his prime - iscurrently a problem because all the femalewhite elephants are too young for mating,according to their keeper. It is strictly for-bidden for a while elephant to mate with anon-white.

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CHUCK JONES, magician, was featured atthe Marin County Fair in San Rafael, Calif.,on July 4-6.

ARINA ISAACSON (Boo lu the clown) op-erator of Circus a la Mode in Berkeley, Calif,was featured in a special photo story in theOakland (Calif.) Tribune on July 1st.

JUDY LYNN, country-western singer, hasannounced she will retire on Nov. 15th, af-ter completing her present contracts. Shehas been performing for over 25 years.

PAUL von ROTZ, L. 0. SLOAN and ROB-ERT DUFFY star in the show "The JubileeMinstrels" which winds up a nation-widetour this month in Berkeley, Calif.

RICHIARDI, magician/illusionist, was caughtin a fire while staying at the Seville Hotel inNew York. The fire was reportedly set aftersomeone had stain a woman hotel guest.

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A new series of TV shows called "You BetYour Life" starring Buddy Hackett, will beaired on a nation-wide basis starting this Sep-tember. The format is similar to the showthat featured Groucho Marx for many years.In all some 90 shows are to be taped for theseries. The producers are interested in peoplewho have an unusual act or hobby that canbe presented within the show's format.Interested people should write to: "You BetYour Life", 11331 Ventura Blvd., StudioCity, Calif. 91604.

ELMER L. OIEHL (81) a charter member ofthe AFM Local 761, of Williamsport, Pa.,died in that city on March 10th. He held boththe offices of President and Secretary of Lo-cal 761. Diehl was a trumpet player and hadtoured with many circuses including WalterL. Main and other shows such as the DeRueBros. Musical Show.

FRANK W. MORRIS (84), of Ithaca, NY,died on June 19th. He worked for more than60 years as a concession manager with a num-ber of circuses including Ringling-Barnumand the Buffalo Bill Show. Survivors includehis sister-in-law and several neices and ne-phews.

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phants, helped with the LARRY DEAN catact and with a cradle act when the show wasshort handed on those Canadian dates andBen's son, SHAWN put on clown makeup toassist WIMPEY in clown bits.. JIM DALEstarring in Barnum, won a Tony Award anditaho garnering sensational reviews for hisperformance, called "galvanizing" by mostcritics. The show Barnum, in case yadidn'tknow, is co-produced by the Felds and CTCOLEMAN.

SIEGFRIED and ROY have finalized plansto allow Las Vegas school children to viewtheir large collection of animals, includingthe famed white tiger cub, several days amonth.. .BETTY ESCALANTE sends greet-ings to the injured CONNIE CLAUSEN •the two trouped together on RBBBCHARLEY VAN BUSKIRK isn't gettingmuch "engraving" done these days • he andJOYCE have a busy season. Listen Charley.r know all about that!.. .ED MIGLEY saysall the production props have been built forthe Cape Cod date.. .WES and FLORINEOLER took a brief holiday at their home inRorida after their closing with the BILL

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GARDEN unit and the start of their long fairroute.. .Ditto ELLIE and SHIRLEY ABELLSof the IAN GARDEN office - who took offto Elkhart with their trailer and did NOTH-ING for a few days.. .TOMMY HANNEFORDhas his tent unit at a Summer Fair at Purchase(NY) • near White Plains - for the College ofPurchase ART'S FESTIVAL thru Aug. 10..BOOM BOOM has finally relocated in Chic-ago.

My grapevine tells me the majority of thetent shows are suffering financial woes. Ru-mors are that one has already folded (but thisis only a rumor). Anyway, bad crowds seem tobe the norm - bad news. More and more 1980has the ambiance of the 1930's. Let's hope aNEW administration gives this country theshot in the arm it needs. Something is terriblyout of kilter in Washington.

SEE YOU down the road. luvs.

The Dallas Helta S.irine Clown unit of 25men won first place competing with morethan 300 other clowns, making this the 9thyear the group has won a trophy at their an-ivial convention.

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Trapeze artist Julio Farias (16 years of age}died on June 30th as a result of injuries suf-fered from a fall during a practice session ofthe Flying Farias act in Tucson, Ariz. Afterbeing hospitalized as a result of the fall of-ficials reported he suffered severe head andinternal injuries as well as a broken wrist.The funeral services were held at St. JosephCatholic Church in Los Angeles. Calif., onJuly 3rd.

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In the June 23rd issue of Circus Report yougoofed the item I sent you. It should haveread:Channel 13 (the educational station in Dal-las) had their auction which they referred toas 'The Biggest Little Warehouse in Texas.'

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BUILDING NEEDS REPAIRS

A city institution • the Oakland, Calif., audi-torium-theatre building is in need of repairsand the City Council isn't sure it has the ne-cessary funds at this time.Repair work is need on the building's roof,and its wooden floor needs to be replaced.The job is estimated to cost $700,000.One city official reports the building usuallyoperates at a loss, and last year this amount-ed to $264,000. He said there is some talkabout tearing down the old structure.The auditorium has been the site of the an-nual Aahmes Shrine Circus each spring andhas housed a number of circuses during itslifetime. The Sells Floto Circus played inthe building right after it was completed.

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ANIMALS FOR NEW MOVIE

I'From an AP release dated July I 1980)

Thirty featured players in a film called "Sa-vage Harvest" were packed into wooden andwire mesh cages and shipped out of SouthernCalifornia to a shooting site in the Brazilianjungle.The acton were animals • 21 lions, 4 leopards,two black cougars and three hyenas -and ittook more than 12 hours to load them intothe special transportation cages, which leavefor Rio de Janeiro via New York."It's a huge operation," explained Mike Gall-ing, spokesman for Gentle Jungle, the world'slargest training ranch and home of the travelling troupe."Not all of them are that easy to get intotheir cages," he said. "Some of them had tobe sedated. There were four tons of lionsalone."The film, about a family in a lonely settle-ment cut off by jungle predators, stars TomSkerritt, Melinda Dillon and 17 year old Tana

TIM TEGGE, of the TNT & Royal OlympicCircus, reports he will soon have his show'snew program books available ($2.00 eachfrom TNT Productions, Box 39, GardenGrove, Calif, 92642). He also hassume ofthe show's route cards for those interestedin them.

The LEE STEVENS DUO were recent guestsof the BOB and JANE LANGE family on theGreat American Circus lot at Hnderne, N. J.fwhich included a bar-b-que. The Lee StevensDuo is now preparing for the fall season.

OAVE "Skinhead" LEWIS found out thatclowning can really be hot stuff. For fourdays he worked outside in 112 degree tem-perature at Graf's Flea Market in Dallas.

Heifer. Miss Heifer's father, Ralph Heifer, isco-producer and also owns Gentle Jungle."The animals have been trained on 78 differ-ent stunts for the film," Dallingsaid.He said the largest of the animals is a 530 Ib.lion called Zamba "who plays the main lionin the flm."

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CARSON & BARNES CIRCUS

by Allen Babcock

On June 2nd, the Carson & Barnes Circus ar-rived for two performances at Jacksonville,lit. There was a tornado watch that day, withtots of thunder, lightning and wind. Fortun-ately the storm went to the north and west ofthe circus lot.

At nearby Pekin there was a flash flood andthe roof of the post office caved in. Most ofthe fields were still flooded when the circusarrived there on June 5th. Luckily they weresetting up on a black-top lot that day.

The show's new tent which was made in Italywas supposed to arrive in the states about the5th of June. If it arrived on schedule the showfolks were hopeful they could have the tent inthe air along about June 20th.Lots of visitors on the show lots included:Charles Belletti, Mike and Marilyn Sorrell,Vernon Richardson, Bill and Eddie Back-stein, Hans Dulles, Al Brown, Sidney Smith,the Engesser family, Edith Johnston andTom Parkinson.

ACROBAT SENTENCED

The 59 year old head of an acrobatic troupecalled "The Mad Monahans" has been senten-ced to a record 20 consecutive life prisonterms, plus an additional 10 years. Robert B.Butler, also known as Monahan, was handedthe back-to-back sentence late last month byLas Vegas District Judge Paul Goldman.Butler was convicted of 21 charges of sexual-assault against a minor and was sentenced sep-arately on each count. He will be eligible forparole in 207% years, although the NevadaClemency Board could pardon him sooner.Butler's acrobatic risley act has appeared withvirtually all of the major circuses in the U.S.and Europe.

CHARGES FILED

The District Attorney's office in Plainview.N.Y., reports that Marvin Matthow (49) has beenarrested and charged with acquiring youngstersfor use in pornographic films.Matthow, who is also known as "Baldy theClown" has reportedly worked on many na-tional TV shows as well as several local shows.