7th Year January 9,1978 Number 2

"London ReportCIRCUS W O R L D C H A M P I O N S H I P S - 1977 . . . by Jack Nible t t

Five great days of Circus Competition, were what the posters promised, and the promise wasamply fulfilled by the Second Annual Circus World Championships. The events were held fromDec. 13th through 17th, in Gerry Cottle's new giant big top, an eight-poler, comprising one ring,a stage and a hippodrome track, built up on Clapham Common, London.

Judges included: Ronnie Smart (Billy Smart's); England; Carl Semback (Krone), Gennany; Was-sily Zupanevec (State Circus) Yugoslavia; Gerry Cottle (Cottle's), England; Mrs. Wilkie (Wilkies),South Africa; Karl Wallenda, U. S. A. (except high wire acts); Mr. Arnafdo (Arnardo's), Norway;with non-voting Chairman of Judges, Jimmy Chipperfield, of England.

Marks were awarded for presentation and forcontent.

The five categories and end entrants were:-

FLYING TRAPEZE - Rock-Smith Flyers, US;Flying Terrels, US; Flying Ganeas, Rumania.

HIGH WIRE - The Wallendas, US; Manfred Du-

val, Germany and the Wbite Devils, France.

TRICK RIDING - Mohawks, England; Jerry,Jimmy & Jonny, Sweden and Michaela Kaiser,Germany.3

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EQUESTRIAN SPECIALTIESACTS THAT C A N A N D W I L L G O A N Y W H E R E

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'78 PlansIn a short telephone interview with Gopher Da-venport, circus owner and producer, the follow-ing infirmation was disclosed about his plansfor the 1978 season.We'll open around Jan. 7 or 8th, in the suburbsof Phoenix (Ariz), Mr. Davenport stated, with anew, expanded circus format with a large "wildanimal" exhibit. The show will open under thetitle "World Wide Jungle Wonder Circus."The circus will feature two specs - opening with"Talk To The Animals" in the first half andclosing with "I Love A Circus" in the secondhalf.Ken Benson, formerly with Fisher Bros. Circusand lately of Louisiana Purchase Garden & Zoo,of Monroe, La., will be the announcer and ring-master and he will be featured with a cage actafter the opening spec. He will also handle theelephants and present a chimp act."We have a well balanced show and at the pre-sent time plenty of good personnel," Davenportstated. "I have engaged Mel Silverlake to bemanager of the show and this will give us know-ledge and strength up front. Mel will also havethe side show and snake pit show."There will be over 100 animals and birds inthe free zoo which will give the public extravalue for their money."Personnel for the show will include: Route Co-ordinator, Gopher Davenport; General Agent,Teonite Davenport; Phone Director, Bill Pick-erel; Special Agent, Max and Jerry Toliver; Bill-

poster, Steve Kautzman; 24 Hr. Man, ChrisWillfong; Circus Manager, Mel Silverlake; OfficeManager, Clara Stevens; Home Office, KathleenDavis and Bobby Echos; Concession Manager,Jimmy Kernan; Midway Diner, Larry Sheffield;Pie Car, Joey Matheson; Cookhouse, ShanonMatheson; Midway Manager, James Myers; SideShow Manager, Mel Silverlake; Menagerie Supt.,(over 100 animals), Wayne Dike; ElephantSupt., Robert Stevens; Cat Supt., Ken Benson;Electrician, Gary Sheffield; Supt. of Transpor-tation, Wilham Ira Swain; Water Truck Driver,Eddie Lutz; Big Top Supt., Jack Carson andProp Boss, Bill Parker.The circus program will feature: Program dir-ector, Mel Silverlake; Announcer/ringmaster,Ken Benson;Band master, Bud Manly; CircusWelcome by Ringmaster; Spec "Talk To TheAnimals" with lyrics by Bud Morely; Ken Ben-son, lions; Anchor perch in Rings 1 and 3; theclowns; Single elephant in each ring; Hand bal-ancing, Joseph Matheson; Animal fantasy (ca-mel, llama, zebra, Sicilian donkey); Past-timesof the Old West, Ken Benson; Pony, Horse andPony display; Web number; Goats, Dogs andGoats display; Juggling display; Single trapswith Mayola, Lee Ann and Mora; Intermission.The second half will feature: Circus RidingAcademy (mechanic and horse); Swinging lad-ders; Elephant and chimp, Ken Benson; Jargo,comedy giraffe; Sicilian donkey, Pony drill andSingle Donkey display; Bear Act; "I Love ACircus" with lyrics by Bud Morely; the JungleWonder Circus Elephants.

M. L. Dupont

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Messrs. Roy "Sabu" Moreau -&- Bobby Gibbsc/o The Circus ReportEl Cerrito, California - 94530

.Gentlemen:

The lead paragraph for your listing of elephants publishedin the December 19, 1977 issue of The Circus Report states:"This information is correct to November 5, 1977 only".

Please be advised that the information contained in yourlist has NEVER been correct!

You list three elephants, "Dumbo, Peggy and Dolly", as beingowned by Judy Jacobs. The correct information is:

I personally purchased DOLLY from Gene Holter onJanuary 2, 1971.

I personally purchased DUMBO from Dolly Jacobs onJanuary 6, 1971.

I personally purchased PEGGY from Dory Miller onJuly 3, 1973.

All of the abovelisted elephants are my personal separateproperty and presently in my custody again by order of theSuperior Court of the State of California.

Very truly yours

PAUL V. KAYE

P.S: "BABY JUDY" is also my personal separate property.

Show DatesCircus Vargas

Jan. 9-11 Biloxi, Miss.12-15 Baton Rouge, La.

Cole All Star TV CircusJan. 11 Willow Grove, Pa.

12 Oxford14 Halifax

Ringling-Bamum - BlueDec 29-Jan 1 Venice, Fla.Jan. 3-10 St. Petersburg

12-15 W. Palm BeachOTHER DATES

Bugs Bunny FolliesJan. 9 Olympia, Wash.

10-11 Tacoma

Holiday On Ice • Nat'lto Jan. 15 Los Angeles, Cal.

Ice Capades - EastJan. 11-22 New York, N. Y.

Ice Capades - WestJan. 11-15 Edmonton, Alta.

Bob Jones Pet ZooJan. 9-14 Wayne, N. J.

NOTICE"CONTORTIONISTS and

CONTORTION FANS"

Please send any photos and ar-ticles you can spare. I am writ-ing a book on contortionismand need material. •Am an amateur contortionistand a long time fan.Thank you. . .

ELLIOTT POLLACK6710 Dorchester RoadApt. 300 - GCharleston Heights, S.C.29405

Little Lion LandJan. 11-15 Winston Salem, N.C.

Victor, the Rasslin' BearJan. 1145 Saginaw, Mich.

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Contact : CARSON & B A R N E S C I R C U SP. O. Box "J"Hugo, Oklahoma - 74743

Phone: (405) 326-3173(No Collect Calls)

xmas ShowA Christmas show, sponsored by the EaglesClub and presented at the Caldwell Auditoriumin Tyler, Texas, on Dec. 17th, drew good at-tendance for both the 2 and 6 p.m. show.The program was produced by Don Anderson;with Vi Hofmeister on the front door; Jo AnnAnderson, stage manager; Marie Loter; organ-ist; Bobby Gibbs, announcer and Gene Ran-dow, producing clown.Show acts included: Circus Overture by MarieLoter; Gene Randow, clowning; Bobby Gibbs,dogs; Rosa Gibbs, web; Stacy Anderson, pick-out pony 'Apache'; Torrino Bros., juggling;Bobby Gibbs, llama and camel; Gene Randdow,clown gag; Rosa Gibbs, iron jaw; Austin Ander-son, comedy gorilla; the Olmedes Bros., bicycleact; Gene Randow, clown number; Bobby GibbsSanta and his white mules; Finale, Christmasnumber with candy.Visitors attending the show included: D. R.Miller, Tom Inabette, Gopher Davenport, MelSilverlake, Mr. & Mrs. Lassister and Lisa John-son.

POPO, the Clown, presented his magic act eachday during the Holiday Season at Oakland's(Calif.) Children's Fairyland ParkJAMES C. HOLM is currently playing schoolswith his dog act. He is working 16 dogs at thepresent time.

JACK RYAN, former publicity chief for Ring-ling-Barnum, has been invited by that show topen a story concerning Irvin Feld's tenth anni-versary as Circus' president and producer forthe 1978 program book. Ryan resigned fromhis Ringling job in Feb. 1973 to become Dir-ector of Public Relations at Magic Mountain(Calif.).FREDDIE KITCHEN, musician and accord-ionist worked with the Pan American show re-ported on in a previous issue. Tom Ogden wasthe show's announcer.

H E L E N W I L S O N , Show Organist. With ShowDrummer, doubles Trumpet. (704) 786-4563.P. O. Box 1167, Concord, N.C. 28025

THE PAMELA ROSAIRE/ROGER ZOPPE nuptials inTexas on Nov. 12th attracted a "tumaway" crowd, in-cluding the Joe Zoppe Family, the Rosaire Family(with the exception of Kay who was hung on long dis-tance throughout the ceremoney); the Corky PlunkettFamily, the Hall Family, Donnie and Gayner Johnson,Mary and Hubert Castle, Cleo Plunkett, Bridget Bal-lentine, Johnny and Betty Zoppe, the Bob Dunhams,James and Mafalda Zoppe, Dick Mclaughlin, Floydand Shirley Paul!, Max and Gertie Craig (looking veryglamorous, I am told) plus many, many others.

BENTLEY BROS, bows in late Spring on the westcoast, then heads east for a series of dates in the sum-mer. The producing team of Bentley/Clancey advisesthe 1978 tour will be only a "chain-of-dates", due tocommitments in '77 which prevented their setting upa longer route. That picture will change in 1979.

WHEN JOHNNY FRAZIER's Fisher Bros. Circus end-ed its season in Texas a number of showfolks were onhand: Ted Bowman, Dorey Miller and wife, lone andDonnie Macintosh, Corky and June Plunkett, Chris-topher and Debbie James, Bobby Gibbs, Glen Henryand Gary and Zoeann Henry... among others.

TINA MICHON, wife of French wild animal trainerJEAN, who went in last fall for an emergency apen-dectomy was discovered to have, instead, a canceroustumor. Mrs. Michon underwent two operations in 12days. According to reliable sources the cancer dangerwas eliminated and Mrs. Michon is happily now onthe road to full recovery. The Michons are under con-tract to JOHN CUNEO.

MORE NAMES: A roster of illustrious names attend-ed the Sarasota showing of King Bros, last fall: ArtConcello, Merle Evans, Lucio and Gilda Cristiani, LouJacobs, and Mary Ruth Herriott. Attending DONNIEand GAYNOR JOHNSON'S annual pre-Thanksgivingdinner-bash were the Zoppes, the Plunketts, the Halls,most of the Garden-Johnson personnel including Jim-my Connors and sons, Lou Reagen, Bill Golden, AnnPike, Luben and Jeanne Stoyanoff, Joe Lemke, Mar-vin Varner and family. Missing were: RED HART-MAN and JOANNE and PEE WEE PINSON whowere in Hammond (Ind) for Sam T. Polack. The af-fair was catered by GIL GRAY and CARL WONGwith others joining their talents to the cooking spree.

DOWN RUMOR ROAD: That the PALACIOS, nowin Mexico for Atayde, will split their double wide fly-ing act (I hope notl).

XMAS DATERS: GARY and ZOEANN HENRY forHetzer.. JOE LEMKE, MARVIN and JOANN VAR-NER, MICHAEL and PATTI WUDKE to a John Strongunit.. .INGE WILLIAMS made the Chicago circuitfor SCHULTZ, ditto JERRY LIPKO, BILLY ROD-GERS, PRINCE NAJVEZ, LILLI-ANA.. .The PLUNK-ETT Family in Texas for BOB ATTERBURY.

JIMMY COLE visited the Carlos Twins on Circus Var-gas at its closing stand. The twins and the late Mrs.Cole (Heidi) grew up together in Germany. Jimmy al-so visited JIM NORDMARK's new Circus Plaza bldg.in Sarasota and was very impressed. The Cole All StarCircus opens this week (Jan. 12) at Oxford, Pa., andcloses April 1st at Sidney (NY).

SNAPSHOTS: KLARAand LEO MASCITTO's babydue in Feb.. .CIRCUS VARGAS day and dated Ring-,ling in the Tampa/St. Pete area.. .Reno's Nugget Clubowner JOHN ASCUAGA gifted LIBERACE with agold ring depicting the flamboyant pianist cradled inthe trunk of BERTHA, that club's trademark pachy-derm. . .The new performer presenting the Cuneo 17act is HORST MERKEL from West Germany... andthe man who trained those incredible parrots on theGUNTHER GEBEL WILLIAMS' Special is RAY BER-WICK of the San Diego Wild Animal Park... DONNIEand GAYNOR JOHNSON picked up their new BolesAero 5th wheel in Hollywood after attending the LasVegas fair convention.. . C O R K Y PLUNKETT andCHRIS JAMES were stagehands on the Teenage Am-erica Pageant airing out of Dallas. . .ELVIN BALE de-buts his new "rocket" act on RBBB. . .HARRYTHOMAS appeared in the Wallenda film with his ti-gers, taped during the annual Showfolks Circus. . .Didyaknow hand-balancer DANNY CAREY, nowwith Int'l All Star, started his career at age 14 withJIMMY COLE and was on that show fourseasons..G E O R G E DA DEPPO outdid himself on this year'sartwork for HENRY BARRETT'S Flint (Mich) ShrineCircus promo... RBBB Blue opened Dec. 29th inVenice (Fla).

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: LOTTIE BRUNNdid two cruise ship dates, one in the Atlantic, one inthe Caribbean. "One cruise," she said, "lasted 11 daysand I only did 2 shows."

An Owner-Producer AND a well-known Ringmaster,both of whom have had serious drinking problems,

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A Happy and Prosperous

1978TO ALL OUR

CIRCUS F R I E N D S E V E R Y W H E R E

E A R L - TIM - L O U I S E

TNT & Royal Olympic Circus

UpdateBefore a horror-struck audience of children inCincinnati Gardens last April 19th, circus aer-ialist Nancy Giordano fell 28 feet from a swing-ing trapeze and landed face-down on a concretefloor only about five feet from a group ofyoungsters. The 29-year-old trapeze artist, tak-ing part in a special matinee performance of theShrine Circus, suffered multiple fractures ofthe jaw, elbow, wrist and a leg. She was.hospi-talized in serious condition in Cincinnati forseveral weeks before being released to go hometo Southern California for further hospital care.

In a recent letter from Escondido, Calif., MissGiordano reports, "I am doing quite well, andam still months ahead of schedule in recovery."

Her letter to William M. Welsh, Syrian Templecircus administrator here, says she has recup-erated to such an extent that she planned tofly to New Orleans to visit her fellow perform-ers in the Hanneford Circus this month.

"I am very excited, not having seen them sincethe Cincinnati circus," she said.

And she added she expects to resume workingin the circus next spring.

"Surgery to remove pins from my left elbowwas performed in October, after which I wasable to begin a weight training program to buildstrength necessary for my act," she wrote.

Miss Giordano said she expects to undergo twomore operations, one next month and theother possibly next May.

She expressed gratitude to the CincinnatiShriners for everything they did for her afterthe tragic fall."A more wonderful organization just doesn'texist!" she wrote.

(The above article has been copied from a Cin-cinnati (Ohio) newspaper, sent to Circus Re-port last month by Bob Hoban).

The Tulsa (Okla) Zoo has acquired the elephant"Sneezy" on loan from the zoo in Memphis(Tenn) as a replacement for "George" whodied on May 2, 1977;

The 1978 edition of the Guinness Book of Re-cords has two pages devoted exclusively to cir-cus feats.

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Available: AFTER MAY 22, 1978 and 1979

• ANNOUNCER-PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR• 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE ON BOTH LARGE AND

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CIRCUS ACTSWanted for

BENTLEY BROS. CIRCUS

2 W E E K S IN C A L I F O R N I A IN MAY

ALSO NEED ACTS FOR MID-WEST IN J U L Y

Acts with salaries not in the phone number brackett will

be considered first.

Please send photos and available time to:

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BETTY WENDANY'SFUNS-A-POPPINPackage Shows to Fit Your Needs

Box 391, Sunland, Calif. - 91040(213) 352-4277 (213) 352-2454;

JERRY DIGNEY, former National Public Re-lations Director for RBBB, has been appointedNational Public Relations Counsel for the ClydeBeatty-Cole Bros. Circus. Digney recently op-ened his own agency, The Flack Factory, inOrlando, Fla.

SEIGEI IGNATOV, juggler with the MoscowCircus, has been made an Honorary Member ofthe International Jugglers' Association. He waspresented with a special certificate at the con-clusion of the show's performance in New YorkCity on Dec. 22nd.

FRANK DEAN, western star, has authored anarticle called "Knots To Hold Your Horse"which appears in the Jan. 1978 issue of the"Western Horseman" magazine.

Ki N ivURTZ, convention chairman for theCFA's 1978 meet, reports that HARRIET BAS-TON, salr manager for the Dearborn Inn hasinforr ;iim the first registration for the bigJuly ~-o convention has been received. Thefirst registration is for BOB and ETHEL WEI-GEL of Ellicott, Maryland.

AGENTS WANTEDC O N T R A C T I N G AGENTS to set Mem-bership Sales or Phones or Both - Fullor Part time.

ALSO NEED CAPABALE PROMOTER

KEN GRIFFIN6331 Hollywood Blvd., Rm. 603

Hollywood, Cal. - 90028Phone: (713)729-7076

FOR SALEMiniature Horses and Miniature Cattle

21 "to 32"We have two hundred animals to choosefrom:Four matched black males 2 yrs old 31"One 2 yr old cow 23" - color blackOne dwarf female horse 21" - 2 yrs old

J. C. WILLIAMS, Jr.Rte. 4 Inman, S. C. - 29349

Phone: (803)472-9788

Show ReportThe program for the 44th annual Hadi ShrineCircus (Nov. 24-27) at Evansville, Ind., wasproduced by L. N. Fleckles, with Emie McLeanserving as announcer and Jack Cervone direct-ing the band.

Featured in the show were: Theme from StarWars; Spec; The Kniesleys and The Pharoahs,aerial; Guy Gossing's tigers; Susan SherylPsRoyal Afghans; Cimsie's Wolfhounds; Barbara'sFantasy Animals; Jorge's Unpredictable Car;Johnny Laddie, unsupported ladders; MartinYouth Group; The Great Lamberti; Mr. Rny-thm, horse; Clowns; the Flying Lar-rays.

In the second half were: Nielsen's juggling;Kalrnas, rola bola; Johnny Zoppe's RhesusMonkey Revue; Clowns; the Hortobagyi's,teeterboard; Clowns; Walt King's elephants;Aerial Ballet, featuring Sonja Zoppe; the 1977Hadi Temple's Star Attraction "Bat Man" (Ad-am West); The Quazars, rocket ship; Grand Fi-nale. .

The book "End of the Game" published byDoubleday, selling for $9.95, is a photo bookshowing the destruction of elephants in Africa.

WANT TO BUYANIMAL ACTS - FEATURE QUALITY

• Write: LARRY JEFFRIESRte. 2 - Box 605-MArroyo Grande, Cal. 93420

Phone: (805)481-1939

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Sfsoir DataMany people who were associated with theworld of boxing went on to become circus em-ployees. Because of their connections it wasonly natural that they joined the Ringling-Bar-num Circus. To most of them it was their tic-ket out of New York's ghetto, offering a chanceto get away from the fight game.Many of these people worked with Ringling-Bamum under canvas as ushers, prop men, aswardrobe people, ticket sellers, porters and youname it. Many of the RBBB ushers also becameushers at the regular Friday night fight sessionsin New York during the long winter monthswhen the show was off the road.Probably one of the most famous of the fight-ers who joined the circus was Eddie Mader, theheavy-weight cintender. For several years thru1948 he toured with Ringling-Barnum and thenjoined Cole Bros, for 1949-50.Mader was the top reserved seat salesman onCole Bros. He also served as bodyguard for JackTavlin, the show's owner. At one time he wasin charge of the white ticket wagon and the piecar. He later served as bodyguard for Art Con-cello and John Ringling North on the big show.Jack Dempsey toured as a feature attractionwith Cole Bros, and Joe Lewis was featured onDaily Bros, in 1950.It is interesting to note that when Jack Tavlinbought Cole Bros. Circus from Zack Terrell in1948, he got the money from his friend JackDempsey, Billy Rose and several other peopleinterested in the investment.

MUSICIANS WANTEDTrumpet - Trombone - Keyboard —Drums — Fender bass - Must be goodreaders.For traveling show oepning in February- Transportation and AccommodationsFurnished - One show daily — All in-door dates.

Send Resumes and photos, if possible to:

Box 205MUSICIANS

Sarasota, Fla. - 33577

Film WorkCharlie Chaplin, who appeared in many filmsduring his lifetime, often wrote, directed andstarred in the movies. He made his debut forMack Sennett's Keystone Films in the one-reel-er "Making A Living" in 1914. That year hemade 35 one and two-reel shorts, plus the sixreel "Tillie's Punctured Romance."Between 1915 and 1918 he made 14 shorts andthe four-reel "Carmen". He also appeared in12 shorts in 1916 and 1917, including the clas-sics "The Floorwalker", "The Rink", "EasyStreet", "The Cure" and "The Immigrant."Between 1918 and 1923 his films were releas-ed by First National. The nine comedies includ-ed "Shoulder Arms", "The Kid", and "ThePilgrim".His United Artists films, all full-length, were:A Woman in Paris 1923 (directed only); TneGold Rush 1925; The Circus 1928: City Lights1931; Modem Times 1936; The Great Dicta-tor 1940; Monsieur Verdoux 1947; Limelight1953; and The King in New York 1957.In 1966, Chaplin directed and made a brief ap-pearance in Universal's "A Countess from HongKong" which starred Marlon Brando and So-phia Loren.

MONTIE MONTANA, western star, was fea-tured in the Rose Parade from Pasadena (Cal)on Jan. 2nd. The event marked his 45th ap-pearance in the annual parade.LARRY WILCOX, star of TV's 'Chips' showis a rodeo roper when he is not working in frontof the camera.

FRANK DEAN writes: The late "SlingshotHamm" was a professional roper and sling shotmarksman. I've heard he was as good as "Sling-shot Charlie" a performer we worked with atthe Memphis (Tenn) State Fair. Charlie did ashooting act, almost identical to the stunts thatshooters do, exceot that he used a slingshot,using small ball bearings as his shot.

BERT HANSEN, popular west coast entertain-er (magic, puppets, etc) was recently hospitali-zed for major surgery, at Mt. Zion Hospital inSan Francisco, Calif.

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HOXIE TUCKER has sent his big Gorilla Showto Circus Vargas for the 1978 season. The unitopened with the show at Tampa, Fla., and isoperating under the direction of Charles andJessie Moyer.TOMMY BENTLEY has a pre-paid ticket andinvitation to attend the Easter opening of theAustrian National Circus. He says he will bethere.JACK GOBBLE recently purchased a new Hol-iday Rambler motor home. He reports thatDecember marked his 40th year in show biz.

THE LANCELOT LINK CHIMPS are on tourwith the Panamerican Circus, Inc., in CentralAmerica. After that tour the chimp act goes tothe Orient for a series of show dates.

TO ALL MEMBERS OF

CMB CHS CFA

WE WISH YOU M A N Y HAPPY

CIRCUS 'DAYS IN 1978

A N D

TO ALL OUR F R I E N D S WITH

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M A N A G E M E N T

P E R F O R M E R S

W O R K E R S

P L E N T Y OF SUNSHINE, GRASSY

LOTS AND S T R A W HOUSES

MILDRED & RUSS W A R N E R

(Milrus Warner Model Circus)Harrisburg, Penna.

YEARS AGOWalter L. Main CircusPittsfield, Mass. - June 13,1933The cookhouse arrived about 10 p.m. last nightconsisting of a truck (No. 35) and a trailer. Thetruck is yellow and black, while the trailer isred.All of the rest of the show arrived early thismorning, coming from Amsterdam, N. Y.The tents are: 2 pole big top; 3 pole cookhouse;3 pole side show (with 8 banners and 3 ticketboxes); 4 pole menagerie; 2 pole No. 2 sideshow (with 3 banners and one ticket box).

In the menagerie they have one elephant, plus3 small one; 8 ponies; 5 horses; one donkey;four camels and three cages (monkeys, hyena,black bears, lions).

Altogether they have 44 trucks and cars with:pole truck, poles and stringers, canvas, seats,electric plant, menagerie, side show, elephant,small elephant and ponies, horses, poles andstakes, animals, cookhouse, concessions, props,ticket wagon, frozen custard, plus house carsand private units.

They have a one ring show and use merchantstickets offering a 10 cent admission. The reg-ular admission price is 25 cents. One show wasgiven in the afternoon at 2 p.m. and four showswere given that night running from 8 p.m. to12:30 a.m.

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HELP WANTED FOR 1978 SEASONOUR SEASON STARTS IN J A N U A R Y - YOU MUST COME AT ONCE

- THESE ARE ALL PERMANENT YEAR ROUND JOBS -

Two good grooms for our wild animal acts — There are two acts and ' " ' 'we need good men for each. Extra pay if you can drive tractor and .'^''.^j. .

trailer.

Experienced elephant man who can work an act and help care for ' . '• .i< '• i)''fTMui

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Man to learn to work with bear act, possibly take over the act someday.

Man to stay permanently at our winter quarters. Take care of the facilityand take care of any animals we might leave there. - Living accomodationsfurnished.

Contact: JOHN CUNEO

Rte. 1 • Box 32-HGrayslake, Illinois 60039 Phone: (312) 546-0717

Tiie town of Prairie du Sac, Wise., will never bethe same since "Barbara" the circus elephantran through the Maplewood Rest Home thispast summer. Circus Fans will be interested toknow that the home has made up a beautifulposter with 5 action photos of the elephant runand the damage. The posters are for sale andinformation regarding their purchase can be ob-tained by writing to: Pat Kelly, 103 JohnAdams St., Sauk City, Wise. • 53583.

JACK BENNETT is going to tour with the newGOPHER DAVENPORT circus this season.

DON MARCKS is preparing an all new magicshow which it is hoped will bow early this year.In the meantime he continues to do M.C. workin California, along with his magic features.

GARY THOMAS has taken over the HubertCastle Circus elephants, replacing PEE WEEand JO ANN PINSON, who will be working in-dependent dates for 1978.SR. JESUS FUENTES, of Mexico's Circus Un-ion, recently visited with the MANUEL KINGfamily and BOBBY and ROSA GIBBS.

MANUEL KING has returned to his home inTexas after spending two weeks in Puerto Ricolooking at talent for several shows.

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Anyone canBecause of financial problems, Jack and MargieLynch, operators of the Loboland wolf preservenear Gardiner, Wash., are putting their wolvesup for adoption. However, you don't you don'tget to take a wolve home, what the Lyncheswant is sponsors who are willing to pay $20 amonth to keep an individual animal in food.

"For as little as $20 a month, any person canadopt a specific wolf," Lynch said. "We'll putthis person's name on the wolfs pen, and thefoster parent can visit his or her wolf at anytime."The animals at the preserve include 87 buffalowolves, remnants of a sub-species that onceroamed the plains with the bison. When settlerswiped out the buffalo, the wolves lost theirfood supply, and when they began preying oncattle and sheep, settlers all but wiped them

out.Loboland is a non-profit foundation set upabout 1920 by Dr. Edward McCleery, a Penns-ylvania physician who persuaded governmenttrappers to give him the last several buffalowolves taken alive.

He turned a wolf preserve in Kane, Pa., overto the Lynches in 1961. They moved the oper-ation to the state of Washington six years ago.

The Lynches support the preserve with admis- <sion fees, but the number of wolves has grownand winter is a bad time for tourists.

"We have 150 hungry mouths to feed and eachmouth needs more than 35 pounds of meat ordogfood per week. We're having a hard timeproviding the food," Lynch said.

NOTICEATTENTION ALL CIRCUS PRODUCERS, PROMOTERS, PERFORMERS, Etc.

There is a persistent rumor to the effect that I, Bill Schreiber,have undercover ties to the Internal Revenue Service and am apart of some IRS tax enforcement program.

Let me state here and now that as of August 4, 1976, my soleemployment has been with Big John Strong, a fact of which Iam quite proud.

My ties wi th the IRS ceased once and for all on July 31, 1976,when I freely tendered my resignation from that organization topursue my l i fe long amb i t i on of joining the circus.

It is therefore especially disturbing to me t h a t such nonsenseshould prevail.

That the IRS should embark on a scrutiny of the circus worldshortly after I q u i t and joined the Strong Circus is, however itseems, only an unfortunate coincidence.

My energies lie solely with the Strong Circus, and any rumors orgossip to the effect that I am an undercover agent for the IRS arenot only laughable but outright lies.

B I L L S C H R E I B E RMgr. Big John Strong Circus

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Holiday FeatureIrvin (Rickey, the Clown) Romig recently com-pleted several Industrial Christmas parties andentertained for several organizations.The biggest and most impressive was for theFord Motor Co., of Romulus, Mich., where theprogram was held in Allen Park Municipal Aud-itorium, with 1,200 employees attending.Romig's Piano Roll Vagabonds and their Cal-liano (a combination of piano, chimes, andwooden whistles) gave off a unique sound withthe old-time tunes, played for the come-in.Irvin Romig opened the Variety Show with asong; Al Jolson style and did comedy magic.Miss Janet Smith followed with a novelty tapdance, then came Rickey's Rascal DixielandBand with son Chris Romig doing two trom-bone solos.This was followed by a comedy bull fight withEd Currie, Scott Kerstein and Ellen Ban fieldfeatured.Next was Miss Cherl Senko's Acrobatic act andRickey's cowboy rope spinning number, end-ing with the big loop.Rose and Rickey and their trained K-9's werenext and finally the show was closed by noneother than himself— St. Nick.Since that time Irvin did a spot TV commer-cial for the Lansing Michigan Catholic Arch-Diocess which will be aired in Saginaw, Flintand Detroit.

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Probably one of the strongest performancesever seen on the Leonard Green produced Em-mett Kelly, Jr. Circus, starring Emmett Kelly,Jr., was unveiled at the Sunrise Music TheatreCircus Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., onDec. 25.31st,The Emmett Kelly, Jr. Circus was presentedunder Hoxie Tucker's new, blue round top,and provided an admirable showcase. Mr. Tuck-er also provided the seating, lighting, generatorand the regular Hoxie big show midway.Adjacent to the circus proper was a CarnivalMidway. Neil Sedaka headlined the MusicTheatre.The all-star talent line-up included: Overturewith Charles Schlarbaum, director/trumpet;Jerry Maas, organist; Giles Austing, drums.Following the introduction of Emmett Kelly,Jr., were: Lilli-Ana, leopards; the Hernandez,rola bola; Miss Aerialietta, trapeze thriller; Em-mett and a rope gag; Ethel's Greyhounds; Ran-dy and Sylvia, forehead perch; Kim Kristensen,long-rein dressage; Emmett and Nancy, comedymagic; Billy Earl, sword balance; Jo Ann andSunny, seal act; the Hernandez Troupe, teeter-board; Emmett and feather gag; Bonnie & Clydemusical comedy; Prince Najvez, aerial; the Hox-ie Bros, baby elephants, presented by Johnnyand Laura Walker: Finale.

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This column may not be regular for the nextfew weeks while jhe writer recovers from his6th heart attack - my fifth since 1965. Thistime your reporter thought he had brought the"final tear down". I would like to thank KenBenson for filling an engagement for me whileI was in the CCU Unit and for writing a column.Thanks to the many friends who wrote andcalled to check on my progress.Reliable information coming to this reporter isthat Joe McMahon has left the Beatty-Cole or-ganization and will be replaced by Bill English.Bill was formerly with Royal Hanneford andseveral years ago was with the Beaty organiza-tion. It is rumored that Joe has gone to theHoxie show.Gopher Davenport has purchased several ani-mals from the La. Purchase Gardens & Zoo forhis World Wide Jungle Wonder Circus. Plansare to have a free zoo of over 100 animals onthe show this year.Information reaching this reporter from PeterLuvas, owner of Dixiana Circus, states they willtour in '78. A beautiful brochure has been re-ceived that pictures the show's features. Petesays that despite a rough start in '77 the seasonended on a happy note. A new ticket office isbeing built and several old trucks will be re-placed. A route has already been laid out andfans everywhere will be watching for the show.

The Dec. '77 issue of 'Popular Mechanics' car-ried a nice article on Elvin and Jeanette's big$70,000 Continental bus which is their motor _home, The couple is with RBBB's Blue Unit.

Word has been received by this writer that theGopher Davenport Circus was aired on CBS-TV twice. Those who have seen it said it wasquite good.Many tented shows will open their 1978 seasonunder new canvas. Among them are two of thelargest shows on the road - Circus Vargas andClyde Beatty-Cole Bros., with Hoxie Bros, fol-lowing close behind. The latter show lost theirtop in a storm in late 1977 and had to bringout their old round top.

My thanks to the following: Ken Benson forhis daily visits and who gave me a copy of theCharlie Baumann book "Tiger, Tiger" and "50Years Under Canvas"; Earl Allen for his con-cern and who gave me 6 Merle Evans records;Hardy O'neil for the book "Logistics of theAmerican Circus"; Gopher Davenport and E. J.Me Daniels for their long distance phone calls,and to the many other friends who wrote andsent cards. . M. L. DUPONT

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In Me mo ri amThe death of the silent movie genius CharlieChaplin has left a saddened world which re-members his humorous pantomines that trans-cended all generations.To many he was only known through the age-less films that portrayed him as a baggy-pantstramp, evoking at one moment hilarity and thenext tears. He left a style of humor that neverwill be matched.Chaplin will live forever in his films, twitchinghis brush mustache and tipping his Dattered der-by, and we are grateful for that immortality.And that is the way he should be remembered,not for the controversy he caused off the screenwith his numerous marriages to child bridesand for his political views which appalled anuneasy America during the Cold War.

We laughed at this genius' comedy on thescreen and chastized - indeed banned him fromthe United States - for his politics.Yet, while we made distinctions between hisscreen performances and off-stage life, Chaplin

always contended there was no difference inwhat he was saying.On the screen, he portrayed the little guy, theunderdog who was a victim of the system. Andwe laughed and laughed.Off the screen, he defended the little guy. Wesaid he was associated with communism andwe scorned him. What irony!In his later years, when the Red-baiting tur-moil of the 1950's was far behind, we recog-nized him for the towering giant of an enter-tainer that he was. He was given a special Os-car in 1972 when he was 83 and in 1975 hewas knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.Genius, egocentric, controversial, shy, tyrant,or whatever label given him, he will always beto his millions of film admirers the LittleTramp shuffling down that endless road, twirl-ing his cane and looking for his next episode.

The book "Mathew Brady and His World" byM. Kunhardt, includes several photos of circusgiants, midgets and wedding photos of the fa-mons:Siamese twins Chang and Eng. The newbook sells for $19.95.

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DAVID and MARJORIE HACKETT attendedthe Ringling-Barnum Blue premiere at Venice,Fla., as well as the Sarasota Show folks NewYear's Eve Party. They were joined by LAURA-MAY (McKenzie) PETRILLO, her mother MIL-DRED McKENZIE, Mr. and Mrs. RALPH LANEand BILL and LUCILLE LANE.

MILONGA CLINE and her son JOHNNIE spentChristmas in California visiting her family aswell as Mrs. NORMAN CARROLL and her sonKEVIN.

MIKE WINN, suffered only minor injuries whenhe fell while setting his high wire across the bigKnott's Berry Farm (Calif.) on Dec. 23rd. Theaccident occured as the wire was being riggedfor a "sky walk" on New Year's Eve,

GALATEA, a stripper at San Francisco's Sa-fari Club uses an illusion in her act, thus shebecomes the Statue That Comes to Life."

RUSSELL T. WARNER is improving rapidlyafter undergoing surgery for removal of a cat-aract.

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DR. FISHand His Performing Sea Lions

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LAWRENCE & JUNICE'sIJpizzan Extravaganza

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MagicThe Christmas seawon brought out many an-nual Christmas promotion shows, most of themfeaturing magic acts. Bill Blysner's dates hadPhil Chandler; Alan Hill's dates had Tom Ogden;Bill Hill's dates had Troy Mulligan; Ron Bacon'sdates had Dick Johnson; Jim Nordmark's dateshad Jerry Conklin; and we presented Magic TimeUSA for Mearl Johnson's dates.Many legitimate theatres are also using magicshows for the holidays. New York City has"Merlin's Magic Circus" at the Enter MediaTheatre. The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadel-phia had Dick Gustalphson. The University ofPittsburgh was presenting David the Magician.After we finish Mearl Johnson's dates we takeMagic Time USA into the Morris Stage in Mor-ristown, N.J., for 5 days.Our recent tour took us through Colon, Mich.,and I had a nice long chat with Greg Bordnerwhile picking up supplies. Things are alwaysbuzzing at Abbott's, if you doubt the art of ma-gic is not flourishing — just go to Colon andsee the huge amounts of apparatus being ship-ped out every day.Jim Nordmark is framing quite a magic showfor his second unit. Understand that JimmyDouglass is building sets. Ken Griffin is build-ing the levitation, a flower production is com-ing from Abbott's and Joe Eddy will be themagician.We have a few old stand-bys back with us forthe Christmas tour. Sister-in-law Chela Diaz isback with us as well as Dick Stuart on the or-gan, who came on after Jack King left. Rabbi,the clown, who has been with our show off andon over the years is also back. Rick Percy isconducting the band and doing a fine job. Ournew stage manager is Bob Owen. Mike Bourbonwas on for awhile as Santa Claus.We will be in Sarasota winterquarters in Jan-uary and February, getting spruced up for the

THE Cl RCUS REPORT Is published each week byDon Marcks, 525 Oak St., El Cerrlto, Cal. 94530 -Phone: (415) 525-3332.SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $12.00 a year; $15.00 ayear for overseas delivery via surface mail.ADVERTISING RATES: Minimum ad $5.00; Quar-ter Page $10.00; Half Page $15.00; Full Page $25.00— No color work please.

Holiday FeatureA Christmas show for the G.E. Club in the midwest, presented on Dec. 17th featured: DickSeegar, organist; Wow, the Wizard, announcer;The Widgets, acrobats; Susan SheryU's RoyalAfghans; Wow, the Wizard; and the Wainwrightsin a program that ran approximately one hour.

On the following day (Dec. 18) a Christmasprogram was presented for the Victor ProductsDivision of the Dana Corp., at Robinson, 111.Featured in this show were: Danny Martin, an-nouncer; Johnnie Laddie, unsupported ladders;Erik Adams, chimps; The Wainwrights, tramp-oline; Susan SheryU's Royal Afghans; DannyMartin, balloon sculpturing; The Widgets, acro-bats; Johnny Zoppe's Rhesus Monkey Revueand Vic Hyde, a one man band.. ,

1978 season. We are under contract to MeariJohnson's North American Productions andopen for them in the north east in March. Ourroute will be in CR, visit when you can.Prof. Stu Miller, 2364 Fruitville Road, Sarasota,Fla. - 33577

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C. C. DAY and wife are spending the winterat Donna, Texas.ROBERT OWENS, artist, has a number of hisclown portraits in department stores this win-ter, and reports they are selling well.JOHN (Yo Ho) and "COOKIE" MAC KAY,husband and wife clown team, have beenspending the winter at Shreveport, La.BILL WILLIAMS (Cotton Candy, the Clown)worked several Christmas dates in the San Fran-cisco (Calif) area this past month.

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are NOW and have been on the wagon, much to therelief of their friends and families. I mention it hereonly to encourage these gentlemen to keep up thegood work.

The JOHNSONS had been razzing the PLUNKETTSabout their dormant rose bushes while Donnie andGaynor's "over-bloomed", so Cleo purchased artificialflowers which he attached to the branches. The floraldesign might have appeared genuine except Cleo gotcarried away and tied pink, red, yellow, white andorange buds to the same bush. Either out of frustra-tion or embarrassment or both, immediately afterThanksgiving the "barren" rose bush suddenlybloomed!

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CIRCUS CHAMPIONSHIPS (Conti nued)

JUGGLING - Bob Branson, Germany; Kris Kre-mo, Switzerland; and Victor Ponce, Argentina.

STRONG MAN - Sheff Amer, Egypt; Ivan Karl,England, and Samson, England.

THE WINNERS: The Flying Terreis (it was an-nounced they will henceforth be known as theFlying Cavarettas), popular with the BritishQueen and commoner, achieved top marks withtheir skill, grace and beauty.

Manfred Duval, repeated his success of last yearand carried off the trophy once again with hissuperb high wire act.

Jerry, Jimmy & Jonny's trick riding just beatthe English Mohawks.

Kris Kremo, a young juggler withua minimumof props and maximum of skill and showman-ship, took the trophy back to Switzerland.

Samson, the strong man from England, was firstwith an impressive and attractive presentation.

An interesting aspect on the last night was alive televised interview with circus buff Hurt

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Lancaster. He regretted his absence and explain-ed the intricacies of the triple somersault. Healso introduced the Burt Lancaster Trophy,which together with a large cash prize awaitsthe first artist to perform the quadruple som-ersault on any television show. The lovely Ter-ry Lemus attempted the quadruple shortly af-ter his announcement, but failed to make it.The Rock-Smith Flyers had achieved severalfaultless three-and-a-halfs during the weeksevent. (Continued on Page 27)

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CIRCUS CHAMPIONSHIPS (Continued)

In addition to the competing acts, Mary Chip-perfield appeared with her seven tigers and alsointroduced her new Exotic act consisting ofGrevy's zebras, Bactrian camels, guanoco, high-land bull, Tibetan Yak and a young giraffe.Elephants from Miss Chipperfleld's and fromGerry Cottle's circuses were presented by Car-los McManus. The French Santos Julian Fam-ily with their excellent cycling act also appear-ed. Cottle's clown group was augmented byclowns^No-No and Gary, and Pierre Pictonwith his Crazy Car. Hoppe's Unrideable Mulesprovided an uproarious finale.

These Circus World Championships are attract-ing world-wide attention, and it looks as if theywill become a permanent feature of the Lon-don autumn season, a most welcome additionto the circus "back-end".

The book "Hometown USA" has a photo of anold livery stable which has posters of the Buf-falo Bill Show on it's front. The book also con-tains three photos of the John Robinson Circusparade.

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GARY RAMSEY, former'circus promoter, andBRIGETTE BARBARA CONRAD, were mar-ried last month and now lives in East Berlin,Mo. They met at Little Rock where Gary wasserving with the Air Force.

CINDY MARCELLI DONALDSON was return,ing from Maine after a Christmas show, lastmonth, when a semi-truck skidded and side-swiped her car. Her parents, ROLAND andJAMS MARCELLI were in New Jersey doingshows at the time. He husband Paul and par-ents were all relieved to know that she camethrough the ordeal uninjured. Damages to hercar amount to $950.ROBERT E. COLLINS, a regional marketingdirector for RBBB, authored an article called"Marketing Under the Big Top" which appearsin the Nov.-Dec. 1977 issue of "Communica-tions Marketing" magazine.