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The program currently being presented by theJames Hetzer Intercontinental Circus, now inWest Virginia, features the following acts.The Golden Retrievers, canine liberty revue;Manzini & Dina, flash, and fire manipulators*Mr. Bell, Olympic champion; Coco, J. T. andBruso, Crazy Clown Comics; Romeo, the ed-ucated pony; The Bruski Trio, equilibrists onbikes; The Patterson Sisters, Spanish webs;Cutups and Mischief, Krazy Klowns; MarioManzini & Co., The Guinness World Champ-ion Escape King and Master of Mystery withSwords thru the Girl, Basket illusion, hand-cuff, chains and sack escape (both done withcomplete costume changes within 3 secondseach); Intermission; Michael and Janice Aria,trained bears; The Krazy Klowns; Cathy Ro-gers, circus vocalist; Andromedia, ballerinaof the balancing ladder; Jeff and Ginnie, dogand pony revue; Bruso, Tallest Man in town;Wendy and Walt, Teeterboard; Lorlei, hightrapeze; Jeff Earl and Lisa the elephant.Cathy Rogers serves as the ringmistress, withmusic provided by Don Fleming (organ) andScon Thomas (percussionist).Manzini has been helping to promote busi-ness by publicly challenging local police tobring their own handcuffs to the circus andlock him up during the show. If he fails toescape from the police officer's handcuffs,he forfeits $1,000 in cash.He had a little trouble with handcuffs pro-vided by Deputy Sheriff Harry Tomblin atthe Logan County Field House show. Ittook Manzini close to a minute to escape

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from the cuffs in full view of 3,000 people.Usually it takes him only a few seconds atthe most. The audience went wild, rootingfor Manzini every step of the way.Mike, Janice and Gil Aria are doing great inthe show with their Golden Retrievers Dogact and the bears. The two 8 month oldbear cubs are as cute as can be. They prac-tice with them each day and it won't be longuntil they are in the act.The Bruski Trio is better than ever. After asuccessful four month summer season, alongwith Manzini, at Gaslight Village Theme parkin Lake George, NY, they are returning totheir first love - the circus.Manzini's Home Box Office TV special is dueto be aired soon. He is also planning for an-other Guinness World Record, and currentlyholds 6 and has competed at the CircusWorld Championships in London last year.

BILLY THOMAS (49) who played "Buck-wheat" in the "Our Gang" comedy seriesfrom 1934 to 1944, died Oct. 10th at hishome in Los Angeles, of an apparent heartattack.

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PETE LUVAS has presented the banner linefrom the Old Dixiana Circus to the Ed Mil-lette Tent No. 5, CFA, for use with their an-nual Amateur Circus.

THE KUNTZ BROTHERS (Frank and Oarryl) had four vaudeville shows at Irving Mallin Irving, Texas, Oct. 3-4. Their wives, andchildren appeared as clowns.

MARTIN (Lancelot Goodperson) REEVESwas the head contest judge for Clown DayContests at the State Fair of Texas. Otherjudges were: JODY HARMON, ALVINHOLDCRAFT and WILLIS GARLAND.

CHARLIE KEELER (former owner of TheOld Dixiana Circus) with wife RUBY anddaughter CATHY, visited with the Luvasfamily and other friends at the Dr. PepperCircus at the State Fair of Texas on Oct. 11.

JOE GOETZ has a new Circus Hobby Shop,which houses his model circus and RailwayExpress. Also featured is a large collectionof old-time posters and window cards.

INGE RULON, of the Valencianos, recently

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made a trip to California, from Tamap, tovisit relatives. While there she made a quicktour of Las Vegas, San Francisco and Hol-lywood.

JOE ALEXANDER, rodeo cowboy, was fea-tured in a five page, eight photo story aboutthe American rodeo, in a recent "LivingTrends" magazine.

BILL and EDDIE BACKSTEIN, CHARLESBELLATTI, EDITH JOHNSTON, DAN"Okie" PORTER, ALLEN BABCOCK, andHOLLIE G. FLIPPERS, father of clownsFlip and Flop, were seen visiting friends onthe Carson & Barnes Circus in the Chicagoarea.

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While visiting the Mississippi State Fair I wassurprised to find the Barreda's Circus was onthe grounds, the whole family, offering a verygood show.I ran into Jimbo the clown (Jim Allen). Hehas concessions with Royal American. Whata season he's had. Had his ankle broke twice,his truck stolen, a blowdown in a tornadoand in Hutchinson, Kansas, a fire burned hisconcession stand and truck. He is now tryingto buy another truck for the 1981 season.Joe Golasso has the Glass House on RoyalAmerican Shows and Eugene Hoffman hasthe trench fries stand.

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San Diego (Calif.) area friends of Percy andJoy Turner gathered at the couple's PacificBeach home for an end of the season partyrecently. The Turners and "Ralph and MaryAnn Rogers hosted a group of about fiftyfriends and relatives under the Tucker Bros.Circus dining top for cocktails and a dinnerserved on cookhouse china.Turner Bros, last toured in the 1960's andthe Rogers were employed by Circus Vargasthat season.True to his reputation, Mr. Turner ensuredthat everything was strictly circus from thered and white checkered tablecloths on thetable to the "Hotel" flag that was raised tosignal the meal. Tapes of circus music filledthe air and after dinner films and slides ofvarious circuses were shown.

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Show DatesBeany-Cole Circus

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Hubert Castle CircusNov. 1-2 Chattanoogajenn

Franzen Bros. CircusOct. 27 Fulton, Miss.

Met/fir's Int. CircusOct. 27 Sutton, W. Va.

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Hoxie Bros. CircusOct. 28 Bellebiew, Fla.

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Ringling-Barnuni - RedOct30-Nov9 Cleveland.

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28 Huntsville29 Lakeview30 Jackson Center31 Fort Jennings

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James H. Drew ExpositionOct 27-Nov 1 Augusta. Ga

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Peking Operato Nov. 2 Boston, Mass.

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"Circus of Mysteries! A barely-believable bo-nanza of baffling big top bewilderment thatsplendiferously showcases a scintillating ser-ies of sagacious and startling sawdust sorcery• The Daring Young Lady - The ConfoundingCannon (An illusion of top calibre) - Here'sthat guy again (Or is it?}."This is the big closing spectacular with theentire cast dressed in circus outfits and Har-ry Blackstone himself as the "ringmaster".The set is very clever as we see the outlineof the "big top" going up as the curtainopens. Excellent choreography here asthroughout the show.Spot includes the vanish of a girl from thecargo net, "The Greatest Trick on Earth" asBecky Garrett is shot from a cannon into anest of three boxes; changing Becky, whogets into a cage, into a tiger and to concludea transposition wherein Harry Blackstonechanges places with "The Wiz" and a gorilla.In doing so Harry Blackstone makes a com-plete costume change which brought him awell-deserved standing ovation as the show'sfinal curtain came down just two hours and10 minutes after it went up.

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The Glendale, Calif., Elks Lodge presented thePaul Wright's Aerial Circus on Sunday, Oct. 5on the Casey Stengel Field in Verdugo Park,for one performance.Featured on the program were: The Castoldis,juggling; Miss Becky, single trapeze; Valentinowalk of death; the Shurays, double trapeze;Jose Gonzales Gonzales, musical comedy; theWrays, trampoline; the Wrights, inclined mo-torcycle; Intermission; the Pegasus Flyers,flying trapeze; Scott Land, clown; Mary Wray,aerial rings; Chuck Craw, high dive; the Dun-cans, teeterboard; Valentino, high wire.All acts except the musical comedy and wireacts where booked by Warren C. Woods &Associates.

PEOPLEJIMMY DOUGLASS built many of the pro-duction items for the indoor Beatty-Cole cir-cus program features.

PAULETTE BRAUN has been working someclub dates in Florida with her baton act. Sheis also working as a legal secretary and a cothingsalesclerk.

DAVE HAMMARSTROM, author of "Be-hind The Big Top" was a guest on the KPIXTV (San Francisco) "Kids News Confer ;ce"show on Oct. 25th.

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THE STEBBINGS CIRCUS

BY PHILIP MORRIS

On Friday, Oct. 3rd, we saw the StebbingsEuropean Circus at the Cleveland CountyFair in Shelby, NC. This was the seventh sea-son that the Stebbings show had played forthe people of Shelby and plans have alreadybeen made for the show's return next year.The show was very warmly received by theaudience that packed the tent on the fair-grounds midway.The program included: juggling by the Sikor-skys, the comedy table of the Bakers, BabyLou the elephant trained and presented byRobert Stebbings, the Spanish Web featuringMiss Kim Valintino, the Baker Boys withtheir delightful comedy teeterboard and mu-scianship, the Wilson brothers with theirgiant unicycles and the bareback riding ex-pertise of the Loyal Repensky Family, fea-turing the acrobatic precision of Timmy and

Kim Loyal performing under the watchfuleye of the great Giustino Loyal. Also visit-ing the show that night was Meg Hansen ofthe Royal Hanneford Show.The ringmaster duties were performed by BillStebbings himself, also known as the Big Boss.All acts were accompanied by the incompar-able organ music of Leon Pinter. The frontdoor was under tne watchful eye of Lily Stebbing who told us to describe her as the Gen-eral Stooge, House Manager and CookhouseQueen.Watch for the Stebbings Circus in the NewJerry Lewis movie "Hardly Working", to bereleased sometime in 1981. They will also beseen in a tow-hour CBS movie scheduled torFeb. 1981. Starring Christopher Plummerand Elizabeth Montgomery, it will be entitled"The Day The Circus Came to Town."The circus closed its season in Shelby, andheaded for winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla.In the fire is z possible tour of Puerto Ricofor the winter montns.

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Austin. Texas - Oct. 5 - The 33rd annualBen Hur Shrine Circus under the supervisionof General Circus Chairman Alfred 0. Trampkicked off the first of the 1980 Texas dates.Fifteen performances were scheduled in theseven day period, preceded by a fish fry host-ed by Ben Hur Temple for the performers andpersonnel and visiting divans from the otherfour temples involved in the circuit.

The Austin circus was the third to join thiscombine coming in with Houston and FortWorth 21 years ago. Following Austin cameSan Antonio and finally Dallas. Alfred 0.Tramp has been General Circus Chairman for12 years and in an interview with CR saidthat the shrine had received more supportfrom the media this year than from any pre-vious year, certainly more free publicity. Ad-vance prmotion was brisk, but attendanceremained spotty which meant the box officewas off from 1979.

Officials were at a loss to explain this dropin attendance but attributed it to several fac-tors; the Rimjling show had been in ahead ofthe shrine to excellent business, skimmingoff the cream, and there is no doubt that theunsettled economy and an uncertain presi-dential year contributed to this decline to adegree.

For the first few days of the run, Austinwas in the grip of monsoon-like rains whichboosted attendance but then the weathercleared and once again temperatures climbedinto the 90's. The Austin Coliseum is notair-conditioned and it was unbearably hotfor the matinee performances. Mr. Trampsaid that for several years the city has beenplanning to update the coliseum, to enlargethe building to double its length and to in-stall air-conditioning and he hopes the newbuilding becomes a reality in 1981.

The Ben Hur Shrine Circus program ran asfollows: Overture; Spec, featuring Michelleand Nicole Les Moines slide for life; Displaywith Dante, The Laddies, and Isabella; TheFlying Ibarras; Irving Hall, comedy unicycle;The Smahas; Aerial display with the PauloSisters, Billy Barton, the Galambos; Jugglingdisplay with Yahia Awada and Ron Perry;Clown Firehouse; Display with Trudy's Dal-matians and Susan Sheryll's Afghans; CircusClowns; Satani Demon; Trapeze bird cage

display '•••vuring Bridget Ballantine; Inter-mission.

Second half opened with the Great Huber-to, slide for life; Wade Burck and the Haw-thorn tigers; Poco's Little Car; Les Moines,aerial motorcycle; Professor Shappi's cra/vpiano; Clowns with the "road construction";Wire display with The Rianos and Los La-tinos; Johnny and Davide Zoppe's RhesusMonkeys; the Tanger Troupe; the HawthornElephants 15) worked by Wade Burck and (3)worked by Dieter Wichert; Clown Washerwo-men; Space Production number introducingThe Quassars, finale.

Staff included: Alfred 0. Tramp, producer;Bob Atterbury, director; Keith Killinger, mu-sical director with Leo Mascitto and drum-mer Steve Lockwood, plus local sidemen;Ernie Mac Lean, ringmaster-vocalist; RexYoung, producing clown with Irving Hall,Sandy Young, Poco and Slo-Poke; Earl Mi-chaels, assistant to Bob Atterbury, and per-formance director; Billy Barton, aerial dir-ector; Frank Galambos. prop boss with four-teen men and Mike Duke, head rigger; CarolAtterbury and Betty Huber, wardrobe.

The Houston date, following Austin andunder the command of Jim McMahan, willhave a different program schedule which willbe adhered to for the remaining Shrine dates.

Extra acts are also scheduled for these datesand two more elephant acts, bringing the fullherd to 19 bulls will be in Houston - the TonyDiano Elephants and the Bucky Steele andBarbara Tata elephants.

MARGARETE GUTSCHE-GUTIS, died at ahospital in Hamburg, Germany on Sept. 25,after a six month illness. She did an acroba-tic act with her husband, Erich and her sonCharlie and later, after "The Original Gutis"comedy act was formed she was the stoogein the act.She was known to everyone as "Mutti Guti"and was with the Gutis act on Ringling-Bar-num and Polack Bros. Circus, also appear-ing at major fairs and sports shows, both inthe USA and Europe. Since 1968. she andher husband had been living in retirementin Hamburg.

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PEOPLEIRMA CRISTAL, hair hang act, was one of theperformers mentioned in a newspaper story onthe upcoming Beany-Cole Circus indoor tour.

MIKE MCCARTHY, advance clown for CircusVargas, worked at a school for the Handicap;ped in Beaumont, Texas, which was coveredby the local TV station. He reports that thecameraman is a circus fan and regular readerof Circus Report.

DONNA MARIE (Wallen) and "Cabaret"werefeatured on the Bozo TV Show in Chicago onOct. 21st. Then on Oct. 23rd the Wallens ap-peared with "Suzie" their educated midget al-bino Missouri mule.

DON COVINGTON and family. DUNCANand Irene SMITH, RALPH MORTON andother circus folks from the USA, were seenon the lot of Circo Hermanns Bells at Ti-juana, Mexico late last month.

BOB MOORE and his "Mongrel Revue" tapeda segment for the TV show "Those AmazingAnimals" on Oct. 21st.

CLARK McDERMOTT and his "Cold NoseFive" act were featured at the recent Ventura(Calif.) County Fair. Later they visited withLOUIS GOEBBELS and WALLY ROSS inSouthern California.

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JAY and KEN JONES, along with JOHN LE-WIS visited Circus Vargas and REX WILLIAMSwhen the show was in the Chicago area.

MARK WILSON, illusionist, opened with avariety show in Peking, China, on Oct. 9th.The show will play all of the major cities inChina.

BARBARA EDEN, of films and TV, recent-ly visited Circus World Park in Florida andmade an appearance as a trapeze performer.

DON and FRAN BRIDWELL and FREDMARCO recently visited with PHIL CHANDLER and DOREY MILLER when the Carson& Barnes Circus was playing in S.E. Ohio.

DIETER TASSO. juggler, will spend a fewdays at home in .Florida resting after his re-cent summer work and then he'll start workaboard cruise ships for the winter months.

MARK ANTHONY, clown, was the guestspeaker at a meeting of the Bluch LandorfTent, CFA, at Hartford, Conn, on Oct. 1st.

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In mid-Sept., I was fortunate, along with myfriend and house guest Fred (Merlin) Marcoof Rhode Island, to visit my old "alma ma-ter", the Carson & Barnes Circus.I toured on the show in 1968 in Clown Alleyas well as handling the side show magic andP.R. work; and was also on Kelly-Miller witha lot of the same folks in 1963.This was the first time I'd seen the show ina good many years and was quite impressedwith it. My old boss Dorey Miller, as well asTed Bowman and all on the show were mostgracious, and the new Italian-made big topwas a sight to behold and quite a changefrom the "recycled rags" we had played un-der in years past.It was great to see my old pal from Hubler

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Roy Huston, magician and illusionist, work-ed a special promotional date in San Gabriel(Calif.) for Bill Rice Productions on Sept.24th.

The show, presented in the auditorium, fea-tured: Huston & Co.. made and illusions; TheMargo Temby Dancer; (5); Norton's GorillaParody and balancing acts; Howard Hardin,juggler and MC, with music provided by theVirginia Lee Fenton Combo.

The Hassani Circus of England, the show thatcarried no animals for its performance, whichwas backed by the SPCA of England, has fold-ed and is no longer operating.

Shirley, the Cirtus Vargas elephant underwentnew surgery on Oct. 14th, when an aluminumplate on her leg was removed. A new specialbrace was put on the leg which permits her toput weight on it, but yet the foot does notquite touch the ground. At press time she wasreportedly doing very well.

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TEXAS CLOWN NOTES

ROSALIE (Superstar) PERRYMAN receivedthe first annual "Al {Ding-a-Ling} Armstrongaward as the Texas Mid-Cities Clown AlleyNo. 85 member who did the most for clown-ing during the previous year.Al passed away after suffering a massive heartattack in his home in March. The presentationwas made by Al's wife, Jeanette, at the awardceremony on Clown Day, Oct. 4thf at theState Fair of Texas.

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POPPY BENNER (Poppy the clown) fromRichardson, Texas, won First Place in theWhite Face Clown Contest at the State Fairon that same day.

Capturing Second Place was ANNETA (Jing-les) MOE'RBE, while CHERYL (Cookie) RO-GERS took Third Race. JAMES (Jimbow)DECKER received an Honorable Mention. Allthree clowns are from Dallas.

ANTHONY (Freddie the Freeloader) ALBAof Irving, Texas, was awarded First Place inthe Tramp Clown category, while DAN (Ro-bo) SIMPSON, of Kerrville, Texas, took Se-cond Place. ROBERT (Wiggle) H IGGLE, ofGrand Prairie, Texas, came in Third, andCHRIS SIMPSON (Mrs. Robo), of Kerrville.Texas, received Honorable Mention.

SUSAN (Bo Bo Brown) CORONA receivedthe top honors in the Auguste classification,while ROSALIE (Superstar) PERRYMANtook second place. LODDIE (Lo Lo) BRIDGESof Ft. Worth, Texas, earned third place, andDONALD (Ajax) PERRYMAN, of Irving wasawarded an Honorable Mention.

BOB and LOU FLOWERS STODDARD re-ceived a surprise in the form of a SpecialAward for their contributions to the successof the Clown Day event.

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Show ReportFROM DON COVINGTON

My family and I were recently on the EastCoast and while in New York attended a per-formance of the Broadway show "Barnum."The musical, co-produced by Judy Gordon,Cy Coleman, Maurice and Lois Rosenfield,and In/in and Kenneth Feld, is a real delight.Jim Dale, the British star who fills the titlerole is one of those rare talents who can elec-trify an audience whenever he's onstage; luckity, he's present 80% of the time during "Bar-num". His selection as the year's best actorby both the Tony and Drama Desk Awardsis well deserved. Also winning awards wereDavid Mitchell for the set and Theoni Al-dredge for costumes.From start to finish the audience is caughtup in the excitement off the show. Bamum'senthusiasm for life and show business is con-tagious. Circus fans will appreciate lots ofnice touches in the framing of the show.Before you enter the St. James Theatre youare greeted by the sound of calliope musicdrifting down Broadway from a speakerover the marquee. Outside the doors to theshow, R. J. Lewis extols the virtues of what's"on the inside" from a bally platform fromwhich he also performs some captivating ma-gic.Once inside you're greeted by the curtainlessstage containing an array of props and rig-ging, including trapeze and high wire. The or-chestra is located on stage for most of theshow, though they occasionally move up totake part in the plot and lead off the secondact with a rousing parade down the aisles.

The entire performance, as a matter of fact,frequently moves about the theatre to the de-light of the crowd. As you are seated, actors,mimes, musicians and clowns are everywhereentertaining early arrivals and escorting late-comers to their seats. The boxes on eitherside of the stage contain upright pianos andthe costumed piano players in each play cheerful rags before, during and after the show.It appears as if everyone in the cast has a var-iety of talents, for in addition to singing, act-ing and dancing, which everyone does excep-tionally well, there are jugglers, mimes, acro-bats, aerialists. clowns, and even a one manband.Jim Dale, whom the program notes had ne-ver been on the wire before, even manages tosing a very convincing love song while walk-ing a tight wire from one side of the stage tothe other.Credit for the circus training is given to theBig Apple Circus and The New York Schoolfor Circus Arts; however, circus fans will no-tice quite a few alumni of the Ringling ClownCollege and the Greatest Show on Earth. Wil-liam C. Witter, who plays the ringmaster, Ju-lius Goldschmidt, and James A. Bailey; tour-ed with RBBB for three yean, as did StevenMichael. Sophie Schab, who was the worldchampion baton twirier while at Northwest-em gets a chance to show her style while dancing in the chorus. Perhaps the best knownRingling almunus is Barbara Nadel, who wasRingling's second lady clown.Though prices are steep ($12.50427.50) andtickets are difficult to get, I whole-heartedlyrecommend the show. Go expecting a light,stimulating evening and you won't be disap-pointed.

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NEW FAMILY SHOW FOR 1981

Launching of a totally new touring familystage show in 1981 has been announced byits producers, Philip Morris and William J.English. Titled "Amazing Adventures inCartoonland" the production will feature liveand on-stage performances by Popeye, OliveOyl, Bluto, Flash Gordon, Tom and Jerry,Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle and a num-ber o f supporting characters in a plot-linemusical.Licensing for use of the popular cartooncharacters was arranged through RodgerHess Productions of New York. Copyrightowner of the Popeye and Flash Gordoncharcaters is King Features Syndicate. Tomand Jerry are a property of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Heckle and Jeckle and Mighty Mouseare owned by Viacom International. A spe-cific no-comete routing agreement has beenentered into to avoid any conflicting dateswith the Bugs Bunny shows, which are pro-duced by Hess and toured by Madison SquareGarden Corp.Show will be a proscenium-type stage attrac-tion framed especially for 2000 to 4000 seatvenues in intermediate markets. Producersare assembling a strong in-house promotionalstaff, although a few dates may be co-promo-ted. Promotional techniques will be in linewith those employed by the larger circusesand ice shows, with heavy emphasis on tele-vision in Saturday morning and fringe timesegments. Opening is scheduled for late Feb.1981 and a tour of 36 weeks is projected.Morris is head of Morris Costume Co., Char-lotte, NC and a well known costumer, illu-sionist and producer of children's attractions.English, a veteran theatrical and circus executtve, is president of Greater American Enter-tainment Corp., Sarasota, Fla. The two men

MAGIC STAR IS GONE

BY PHILIP MORRIS

Jack Baker, known to millions of fans as Dr.Silkini, passed away at his home in Toledo,Ohio., on Oct. 5th, after suffering a heart at-tack.Jack's magic horror stage show, was a topbox office attraction throughout the U. S.and Canada in the 40's and 50's. The showfeatured the Frankenstein Monster in personand movie stars such as Glen Strange and BelaLugosi who toured with him.His show was called "Ayslum of Horrors" andwas so popular at its peak, there were as manyas five units of the show playing major theatrecircuits at one time. The show also played inSouth America and England, where it was verysuccessful.We will miss this great artist of the magicworld.

, have been associated for the past fourteenyears in producing and touring children'stheatre productions, playing over 200 citiesin 32 states annually.The producers state that the new show willbe very strong in the area of illusions andspecial effects. The set, now under construc-tion in the Morris shops in Charlotte, is bord-ered by 1200 reversing racer lights. Speciallighting effects are being provided by Atlan-tic Stage Lighting. While most engagementswill be in proscenium-type situations, set construction will permit use of arena facilitieswhere suitable theatres or auditoriums arenot available. Most dates will run two to sixdays, but show will be geared to do one-nighters and move overnight when advantageous.

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MOROCCO TEMPLE SHRINE CIRCUS

The Morocco Temple Shrine Circus, present-ed at Jacksonville, Fla. (Oct. 4-5) was produ-ced by Wm. Kay. The show used a strong ad-vance program with Shrine publicist JohnJetiner working with Dottie Robsinon of theKay office. There were several tie-ins withCoca Cota and chain stores, resulting in newrecord-breaking crowds.

Acts featured in the show were: The Rod-riguez Troupe, The El Kardis, Pablos & Ro-bertos, Irene & Tongo (gorilla), the BoxingKangaroo (Fossetts), Christine's Chimps,Barbara Lee's dogs and ponies, Schmitt's ti-gers, Roman Schmitt's elephants, The Ber-tinis, cycles, Monica and George, low wire,Fay Alexander's comedy car, Tino WallendaZoppe, high wire, Miss Olinka, trapeze, withproducing clown Alfredo Landon, "Bubba"Hastings, Jr., "Bozo" Miller and "Fuzzy"Hughes and the Shrine clowns.

The circus staff included: Bill Kay, produc-er; Patricia Kay, talent coordinator; BobJohnson, lighting; Oave Pruyn, musical dir-

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H U M B O L D T E R S LOVED CIRCUSES

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Northwestern California's old-timers lovedthe theatre and circuses. When entertain-ment came to town, the visiting companyseldom failed to draw an enthusiastic crowd.Circuses had trouble getting to HumboldtCounty. For a long time, few elephants reached this part of the state, unless they came ov-erland. Ships couldn't accommodate the bigniimals. It is more likely shipping companieswouldn't consider pachyderms as passengers.It was good news when trie Robinson & Wes-tman Circus came to Humboldt County inSeptember 1882. The show had appeared inFemdale a day or two previous before a $600muse, which was considered good for the

small town.Robinson & Westman's Circus gave their firstperformance in this place (Eureka) last night,the Humboldt Times reported. "As is custo-mary when a circus comes to town the crowd

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