America's Favorite Circus Weekly"

4th Year March 3, 1975 Number 9

mania Circus Rally is Big Success"What surely must have been one of the most successful cir-

cus events ever staged, as far as audience participation is con-cerned, was recently held here in Atlanta," says Dr. Paul Fitzpat-rick. "On Sunday, Jan 26th, some 17,000 children attended theChristian Council of Metro Atlanta's presentation of the FSU HighFlying Circus at the Omni."

It was a massive transportation project to bring this manypeople in from the outlaying areas and plans were worked out overa period of several months. A total of 47 buses were rented for theday, while another 60 buses were obtained from local Bible Schoolsand churches. Each unit made at least two trips to bring in allthe people attending the event.

The seating procedure waswell planned, with one sectionat a time being filled with thechildren. As each section wasfilled, from top to bottom, amagician moved in to keep every-one entertained. As more sec-tions of seats were filled moremagicians started performing un-til there were a total of 12 ma-gicians entertaining from thearena floor.(Continued on Back Page)

Suit SettledDuring an engagement in De

troit (Mich) animal trainersBaron Von Uhl jad John Cuneo en-tered into an agreement for thesale of a white tiger to Cuneo.The agreement was sealed with a$100 down payment, and a promisethe rest would be paid beforethe Shrine Circus closed.

When Von Uhl refused to(Continued on page 11)

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One of the first circuses to open its under canvas tour —Al G. Clark & Dailey Bros. — drew straw houses for its initialperformances at Aransas Pass (Texas) on Jan. 27th. The show isproduced and operated by "Gopher" Davenport, son of the late Ben

Davenport.

To catch the show's opening engagement, circus fanand model builder H. T. "Tex" Dreyfus had to make a

round trip of 420 miles from his home in Houston. Because of thelong drive and a late arrival, Tex was unable to see the fullprogram, but he has provided this writer with some detai'the circus.

The big top is set up as athree ring circus, but they arecarrying extra center sectionsso the tent can be expanded toa four or five ring circus when-ever necessary.

The circus is traveling onfive show-owned trucks, all new-ly painted, plus several privatttrailers and campers. Their ani-mals include: a hippo, 2 ele-phants, llama, camel, buffalocalf and goats. A pony ride isfeatured on the midway.

The circus was scheduled toplay Baytown (Texas) on Feb. 15and it was Tex's plan to see itagain there. He will be provid-ing additional news notes afterthat visit.

,M. L. Dupont

HISTORICAL FACT

In 1923 the Girard Shows of-fered a double trapeze numberas a free act each day.

/̂ i ease llote!

Reader Don Smith writest-

"The girl with the elephant inthe center fold issue of CircusReport (Feb. 17) is Diane Lovettwho appeared with RBBB in 1939.In 1938 she was presenting a ti-ger riding elephant on the Al G*Barnes-Sells Floto Circus, andher act was followed by DollyJacobs with a lion riding a hor-se and Terrell Jacobs, with hisbig lion act.

Diane lived in Detroit and oper-ated a dance studio before andafter her years with the circus.She was discovered at the De-troit Shrine Circus by Art Con-cello, who recommended her tothe big show."

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March 3, 1975

Program AnnouncedThe actual line-up of talent being

presented by Circo Panamericano at SanJuan, P .R. , is shown below. The list of acts reported last week isincorrect, although it was copied directly from the circus program.

Overature by Keith Killinger'sCircus band

Eloise Berchtold - mixed animalsMiss Maya - sword balanceDu Bicky Equillibers - an unsup-

ported ladder actRobert Zerbini - sword balanceTino Zoppe - high wireBobby Gibbs - white shepherd dog

act (5)A clown gagThe Fergus Family - trampolineHank & Cindy - aerial cradleMario & Robert - acrobaticsTino Zoppe - comedy lamp postMaya - swinging trapeze

Maryse Begary - single trapezeOlinba Zoppe - trapezeMario Zerbini - low wire

In Memoriam

TEODORO (Thedv) ARAGON (89)a famous Spanish clown, died onDec. 30th at Madrid. He helpedstart the Loja Troupe in Germanyin 1908, and for many years waswith U.S. shows, retiring in '63when he went back to Spain.

RAY SWANN (78) died at Memphis, Tenn. on Jan. 30th. He gothis start in show business at 13when he joined Hagenbeck-Wailaceand later traveled with many ofthe major carnivals.

WILLIAM "Bill" WAITE (69)elephant man who worked for Pauland Dorothy Kelly, died on Feb.8th at Peru, Ind. He had beenwith Cole Bros, and started working for the Kellys when theypurchased the old quarters.

The Flying AztecasFergus Family - comedyBob Gibbs - mulesRosa Gibbs - poniesMaryse Begary - jugglingLotti Brunn - jugglingOresti - foot jugglerThe Rummels - rolling globesRodogel Troupe - teeterboardZerbini Bros. - teeterboardBobby Gibbs - elephants (3)Johnny Luxem - Wheel of Destiny

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Inflation Hurts Show Folks TooPrices are up and everyone is feeling the effects, especial-

ly show folks, whose very existence is threatened by inflation andthe unemployment situation. Last month a reporter visited backstageat the Detroit Shrine Circus to obtain some facts for a nationally

released story.

Trapeze performer Sasa, of the Flying Armors lamentedthat costume stockings have gone up $3.00 since lastyear. Koko, the clown, said a pound of white-face make-up that used to cost 80c now sells for $7.00.

Elephant trainer Al Vidbel reported that it used to cost

Special IssueThe 69th Anniversay Edition

of "Variety" (dated Jan. 8, 75)had a six color, slick front andback cover advertisement for theRingling-Barnum Circus.

The issue contains severalgood circus articles and photos.The story material included theRBBB's Bi-centennial plans, someideas for a proposed Radio Cir-cus, story of the Circus in theUS for 1974 and an item aboutHubert's Museum and Flea Circus.

Sally Payne

Will TradeLITHOS FOR TRADE

Have some good RBBB and Cole Brslithos from the '30s and '40sfor trade only. Am interested inany shows before 1950.

KENT GHIRARD3027 Alapali Place

Honolulu, Hawaii - 96815

$3500 for an elephant, but ontoday's market the asking priceis $7500. The pri>ce of hay, hesaid, costs $75 per ton, as com-pared to $45 a year ago, and anelephant is capable of consum-ing 800 Ibs a day.

Bob Berosini told the re-porter that he is spending $200a week to feed his animals, itsabout triple what it was a yearago, he says. Baron Von Uhl fi-gures it cost him at leastdouble what it did a year ago,to feed his lions and tigers.

The prices of costumes,fuel and supplies are up and itis difficult to pass the incre-ase on. Ticket prices have beenincreased slightly, but even sothe Shriners hoped to raise atidy sum for their work.

It used to be, said one ofthe showmen, that mushroom grow-ers would take away the manurefree, today they want $500 forthe run of the show.

March 3. 1975

Shrine Circus Is Greatbv NORMAN WILBERT

37th Annual Tripoli Temple Shrine Circus (MilwaukeeArena - Feb. 18-23, 1975) was another outstanding circus presenta-tion, complete with new acts that provided laughs and thrills in atwo hour program of pleasure and entertainment.

Over 40,000 school children, as well as handicapped andunderprivileged youngsters were guests during the weekday matinees- with close to 90,000attending by the closeof the circus.

The Shrine Circusband was directed byJanes Ille (20 pieces)and they are to be com-mended for setting theproper moods, cues andtempo changes.

Jose Barrade, ofPeru (S.A.) certainlyis a tremendous cat manand his lions, which obpvcommand, despite their snarling,present some different routines— including two lions jumpingthrough a ring of fire, while another leaps a fire hazard on thefloor.

All three rings offered out-standing aerialists in feats ofbalance and daring - Mimi andSusan were fantastic. Other num-bers on the program included:The Patricks - rola bolaThe Edwards - bicyclesDanny Carey - rola bolaThe Flying Dells - included a

tripe and passing leapClyde Bros. Arabian camels

Josalito, the circus* young-est and perhaps greatest star ofthe high wire, performed a trulyamazing routine - a first any-where.

The Smaha Family (pictured)offered an excellent display witfrtheir Lipizzan stallions. Thefeatured routine from the ViennaAcademy was beautiful, includingthe breath-taking "Airs AboveGround" number.

The Shrine Circus elephantsconcluded the performance (allthree rings) presented by LouRegan, Oscar Cristiani and Geo.Barrada - son of Jose - making

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• byPAT BISSONETTEshow has officials smiling!

It was a straw house for every performance when the Hanne-ford Circus played White Plains (N.Y.) on Feb. 15-17. Every numberbrought forth a tremendous response from the audiences and needlessto say the show was asked to return next year.

The circus starts with a rousing overature, directed by LeoMascito, who had an 11 piece band. It's a three ring circus, fea-turing 15 displays, with floor carpets, flashy wardrobe and someof the prettiest girls in the circus world.

Featured on the bigprogram are:

Trio Frio - tramp.Keppo Sisters - two

ladder numbersHanneford Trio -

ladder/perchPrincess Tajana -

wild animalsJimmy Stutz - jugglingThe Corini Troupe - wireStruppi and the uncaged pantherBaroness Von Forst - illusionsBertini Sisters - wireSulo Sisters - juggling/globesKathy & Roger - basketball dog;The Bertini Family - unicyclesMarina - aerial balletSanger's Riding Academy— Intermission —

Tommy, Struppi, Kathy and Iris- the Hanneford elephants

The Rock Smith FlyersHanneford Family Riding actPrince Najvez - aerial featureFinale - entire company

The program was announcedby Lucky Larabee, who incident-ally, introduced members of the

MiscellaneousRoyal Bros. Circus plans

to open its 1975 Canadian touron May 12th. They'll be out forabout 20 weeks.

Circus Vargas was featuredon a children's TV show "Call ItMacaroni" seen on the Group 5stations on Feb. 19th.

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Felix Adler CFA Tent who wereat the circus. The show clownsfor this date were: Jim Stutz,Kosco and Paddy.

March 3. 1975 Page 7

Havilanil Keeps court DaleHal Haviland went into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

last week (Feb. 25) in an effort to obtain an answer to the ques-tion "Is the Animal Welfare Act of 1970 Unconstitutional?"

In the suit "Haviland v. Butz," the appellee, apar-ently sees no difference between Haviland's DOR andPony act, and a circus or a zoo, omnipotent regula-tory authority and a mandate, under the statute inquestion, to charge Haviland a license fee, etc. Tofurther this claim, appellee even performed an un-constitutional legislative function by adding "ani-mal acts" to rules implemented in enforcement of thelaw in question.

—- At the same time,asserts whimsical

animals that may cross statelines, while acknowledging whim-sical determinations that ex-clude certain categories of ex-hibitors that travel across statelines, with more animals than appellant Haviland. Excluded cate-gories include thorobred dogshows and rodeos. State andcounty fairs are also in the ex-cluded category and it's legalapplication to Haviland is oddsince Haviland sometimes worksin circuses, rodeos and countyfairs. Under the questionablelaw circuses are supposed to beregulated while fairs and rodeosare not. Furthermore, some ofHaviland's dogs are thorobreds,which are excluded from federalregulation if they are exhibitedin a dog show.

Haviland claims that givingshows with his six dogs and a

under the same law, the appelleedeterminations to regulate any

The AMAZING MONAHANS werefeatured on the "Tonight" TVshow the evening of Feb. 26th.

ROD BARBER has been namedCircus Chairman for the 1975Tigris Temple Shrine Circus atSyracuse, N.Y.

pony doesn't really, substan-tially, affect commerce, quitefrequently being a non-profitartistic endeavor, anyway.

Haviland further claims in-vidious discrimination, by theappellee, because the statute inquestion is operative underwhimsical determinations and inviolation of Haviland's consti-tutional rights according to theSupreme Court interpretations ofthe due process clause of the5th Amendment.

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Allen's Pet ZooMar 3-5 Campbell, Calif.

Hubert Castle Circusto Mar 8 Minneapolis, Minn

Circo Panamericanoto Mar 9 San Juan, P. R.

Circus VargasMar 3-5 W. Palm Bch, Fla.

6-7 Enroute8-12 Houston, Texas

Circus of WondersMar. 1 Quincy, Calif.

2 Susanville3 Fallen, Nev.4 Fernley5 Carson City6 Gardenville

Cole All Star TV CircusMar. 3 Mexico, N. Y.

4 Phoenix5 Union Springs6 Remsen7 Holland Patent8 Madison

George Matthews CircusMar.5-11 Foster City, Ca

Hamid-Morton CircusMar 4-9 Topeka, Kans.

Harold Bros. CircusMar. 6-9 Lansing, Mich .

Medinah Shrine CircusMar. 3-23 Chicago, 111.

Ringling-Barnum Blue UnitMar. 4-5 Savannah, Ga.

7-9 Columbia, S. C.

Ringling-Barnum - Red UnitMar. 4-5 Fayetteville, NC

7-9 Asheville

Wallace & Rogers CircusMar 7 Chowchilla, Cal.

9 Dos Palos

MiscellaneousPolack Bros. Circus will

bp playing for the ShrineClub in Los Angeles, Calif,early in April.

Tho European magazine"Echo" has discontinued itsmonthly journal. The con-stantly rising prices wereblamed for the cancellationof future issues.

De Wayne Bros, has their1975 summer tour completelybooked

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Wondering who the above two people are? They are both the sameman — Lou Jacobs, famous Ringling-Barnum Circus clown.

Expects Big SeasonEnthusiastic crowds were on hand for the 1975 opening per-

formances of the International All Star Circus at Warner Robins(Ga.) on Feb. 12th. The circus, whose home-base is in Sarasotais produced by Nordmark & Hood Presentations, Inc.

"We are looking forwardto an excellent season based onour promotions to date and thefact that 1974 was by far thebest season in the show's nineyear history," says General Man-ager Hines Rucker.

Owner-producer, Jim Nord'mark reports the show will playmore than 200 dates, covering31 states. He added that over55% of the dates are repeats

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March 3, 1975 Page 11

dew Horse Show Heady To RowTwo Michigan horse enthusiasts — Clarence Hastings and

Chuck Grant — are producing the "Chuck Grant's Horse Capades"which will make its debut late this month at East Lansing, Mich.(March 29)

Clarence Hastings is shown herewith his favorite horse, whichhe will ride in "Chuck Grant'sHorse Capades".

The show will offer apleasing exhibition of classi-cal dressage and high school ri-ding, featuring several accom-plished men and women riders.

Hayes Ganiard, of Clark-lake (Mich.) has been settingup dates for the show. They areplanning to use circus-type mus-ic for many of the presentationfeatures.

3-RING CIRCUSThe Moslem Shrine Circus,

at Detroit (Mich) was producedby L. N. Fleckles. The big showband was directed by Al Youngman

Among the acts featured inthis year's circus weret-

William Golden - Hawthorne catsFearless Bauers - high polesFlying Armors - flying actFlying Marilees - flying actBaron Von Uhl - wild animalsCuneo, Vidbel, Cristiani -

circus elephantsBerosini - orangutansThe Columbians - high wireMiss Rosalee, La Bella Raquel

and Miss Lisa - single trapsThe Zacchini Cannon numberHappy Kellums and John McKay -

producing clowns

SUIT SETTLED (Continued)

give up the tiger, until the fuEpayment was made, he was sued incourt. The suit charged that aprice of $16,000 had been agreedupon, and that the Baron hadboosted his price to $20,000.

After listening to bothparties and studying the matter,a Detroit judge ordered Cuneo topay Von Uhl $20,000 for the un-usual white tiger.

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Upcoming StarA young trampoline perfor-

mer — Ron Merriott — is fastbecoming one of the top stars inhis field. Although he is only13 years old, and an amateur, hehas all the flair and showman-ship of a "pro."

Last summer Ron won fivep.old medals and one silver medal Iin the world trampoline cham-pionships. He won in his own agesgroup and then went on to winin tht> men's division. Just re-rent ly he won over the Russianmen contestents durinp, a 1'. S.tour.

Kevin Monahan

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Nice DatesSome of the best dates

ever booked were recently com-pleted in Southern Californiaby Allen's Pet Zoo, which is inthe process of preparing forits annual summer tour. Despitethe current economic conditionsshow owner Charlie Allen report}that ll>75 bookings are wellahead of last year.

The zoo recently purchas-ed a new Space Pillow directfrom the factory in Iowa and anew Kiddie Ferris Wheel hasbeen added to the show.

A Big DayA huge turnout of people

forced Fisher Bros. Circus togive three shows at Weslaco(Tex)on Feb. 17th. The first show wasan early one, attended mostlyby children who were enjoying aholiday from school.

The circus has all new can-vas this season - big top, sideshow and cookhouse — and looksreal good. They have four attra-ctive cages of animals, whichare housed in the side show.

The program features: —trained horses, elephant, llama,Ted Wilson's dogs; Joe Silver-lake, aerialist and juggler;Diane on the aerial rope; TexasTommy's ropes and guns and manyother numbers.

C. C. Day

March 3. 1975 13

CHARLES H. BENNETT, Jr.,has moved to Wichita, Kans. Hehelped organize the WindjammersUnlimited group.

ELVIN BALE (aerialist)and JEANNETTE WILLIAMS (horseact) have been moved to RBBB'sBlue Unit this year.

CLARK McDERMOTT and hisdogs have been working clubs inthe Los Angeles (Calif.) area.

DOROTHY HERBERT has soldher pony drill to ERNESTINECLARK who will work it on thenew Mid-American Circus.

GEORGE "Slim" LEWIS hasauthored an elephant story forthe March 1975 issue of the Na-tional Humane Review.

PAUL FITZPATRICK and JOHNCOOPER visited with several showfriend on the RBBB Blue Unit atAtlanta, Ga.

PHIL SHEAR and JENNIFERLEMON are booking dates and do-ing promotional work for the BigJohn Strong shows.

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Wants PatsNewlyweds Hale Smith (the

King of the Hollywood Hobos) andHelen Liberty (wild animal train-er) are looking for an apartmentwhere they can keep their strangtpet animals. After their recentwedding in Las Vegas, the couplesaid they planned to live inHollywood, but would need a placewhere they could keep their petboa constrictor and leopard.

Smith won his title afterhe walked from Astoria, Oregon,to Britt, Iowa, the nation'shobo capital in 1971.

TO THE EDITOR

Certainly enjoy Circus Re-port each week with its gossipand information abouts showsand acts. It's indespensiblel

Albert House

SHRINE CIRCUS (Continued)an excellent finale.

Of course the Shrine Circusclowns were up to their usualpranks, with midget Ralph Wil-liams, helping in every number.He's been clowning for 7 yearsand does a great job.

Jack Chapman, General Chair-man, books all the acts for theShrine Circus and also speaks onbehalf of the Tripoli ShrineCircus. He kindly permitted meto take photos from the floor ofthe arena and my thanks to himfor so many courtesies.

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to North Adams, Mass. - June 25-26, 1922

The Spark's World Famous Shows arrived here on a Sundaymorning, coming in from Northampton (Mass). They have one train of14 cars — consisting of 4 horse cars, 6 flats, 4 sleepers, with30 wagons, 6 of which are cages. Their animals include 6 elephants

Show VisitMembers of the Roland C.

plus 4 camels and 8 ponies.

The tents are: 4 pole biptop; 4 pole menagerie; 4 poleside show; 4 pole No. 2 sideshow; 3 pole dressing top; 4pole dining tent; 1 pole cook-house; 1 pole blacksmith shop;three 5 pole horse tents; 3 smalltents and one concession top.

The show colors are: wagonbody, red, with yellow undergearand wheels; the flat cars areyelbw while the other cars arered and yellow.

Butler CFA Tent attended the bigPaul Kaye Circus at Tucson (Arz)last month and really enjoyedthe show.

While in Tucson we werethe dinner guests of Dr. JamesA. Reilly and had a chance tovisit with Jack and Ruby Landrusthe retired clowns. Later theyivisited the circus and were warmly welcomed by all

June Curry

A BIG JOHN STRONG & SON PRODUCTION

CIRCUf/WONDSRfTHE MOST WONOEROUS FEATS OF MAGIC EVER PRESENTED

The Circus of Wonders has proved to bea winner at every stand, with BILLBIRCHFIELD, CHESTER CABLE, WINIFREDMcKAY and TOM JANSEN. Working ahead ofthe show is PHIL SHEAR.

Many thanks to Stan and Kathy Kramienfor their help and recommendations.

"It is nice to have friends like you."

Big John Strong

StarringAMERICA 'S

F A V O R I T EMAGICIAN

BILLBIRCHFIELD

CLYDE BEATTY (Continued)

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PQlNCE.A E>K3 AFRICAN LION, HAS SAVEDCLYDE'S LIFE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN HE.WAS ATTACKED BY OTHER ANIMAU.5 . '. .'

(Continued Next Week)

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CHURCH RALLY (Continued)Once the building was fill

ed to capacity, 85 Red DevilShrine Clowns entered to provideclown skits and audience parti-cipation numbers. This was fol-lowed by musical numbers playedon David Beck's air calliope byMrs. Virginia Floyd (sister-in-law of Dr. Fitzpatrick). The biphouse organ was played by Mr.Bumpers of Columbus, Ga.

Members of the FSU Circus,from Florida, paid their own ex-penses to come and perform forthe church sponsored event, andpresented their complete circus.During intermission Rev. JohnSharp (Honorary Ringmaster) ledthe audience in the singing ofreligious songs, and Rev. JohnHazzar gave a ̂ xrief message.Thiswas followed by the distributionof a coloring book and Bible toevery child in the audience,with some 180 Explorer Scoutsassisting.

Professional photographerMercer Sullivan donated his filmand time to photograph the eventServing as, co-chairman of theday w^re Mr. and Mrs. PlunkettIII, of IBM, while Mr. and Mrs.Swain contributed financial andother assistance for the churchfeature.

* *B.-A.- BARTLETT, old-timecircus calliope player, who isnow in his 80's, is still goingstrong at his home in Garber,Okla.