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VOL. XXXIV APRIL, 1951 No. 4

A CIRCUS PANORAMA IN TECHNICOLOR

Entered as second-class matter, Feb. 17, 1933, at the Po&t Office at New York, under new Act of March 3, 1879

THE VOICE OF THE"BIG BERTHA"

Roland Butler,chief of staff ofpress relations forthe Ringling-Bar-mini Circus andone of the mostversatile p r e s sagents of all time.

Me possesses amasterly under-standing of cre-

ating Good Will for "The Greatest Showon Earth" and finds th-e hand of welcomeextended in every city and town by mem-bers of the 4th Estate.

New York, April 4th — TheRingling-Barnum Circus openedtheir 1951 season at MadisonSquare Garden to a capacity au-dience. John Ringling North, il-lustrated a new brand of show-manship that makes for good-will and a heart warming regardfor "The Greatest Show onEarth" by generously donatingthe opening nights receipts to theLouise Baer Memorial Fund forthe New York Heart Association,which totaled up to $190,000.

Stars of stage, screen, radioand television appeared in person

to enhance the opening night's performance,thru the efforts of Jimmy Durante. Amongthose to appear were: Lily Pons, Tony Mar-tin, Don Aineche, Buddy Rogers. VirginiaField, Jack Dempseyj Bert Lahr, Ed Wwnn,Celeste Holm, Gypsy Lee, Laraine Day,Jerome Cowan, Walter Abel, Lanny Ross,Constance Moore, Marie McDonald, EllaRaines, Lauritz Melchior, Dagmar, A. God-frey, Joan Savers, Norman Brokenshire, BobHope, Paul Wine-hell, Margaret Lindsey.Dennis James, Cyd Charrisse, Ella Logan,Hy Gardner, Walter Alx>l, Lee Bowman,Police Glee Club, Clem McCarthy, EddieJackson, Nick Kenny, Imogene Coca, SydCeaser, Patrice Munsel. Eddie Dowliug.Francis Langford and others such as TootsShor, Earl Wilson, Frank Farrell, Dot Kil-gallen, Tex McGary, Lou Sobel, DorothyDalton and Bob Considine.

Cecil B. DeMille, one of the most popu-lar of Major League movie producers waspresent, seated in one of the boxes wthmembers of his staff who took notes duringthe show proceedings.

Mrs. Vincent Impellitteri, wife of theMayor of New York City, chairman of thecampaign for the Heart Fund, presentedgold money clips to John Ringling North lor

turn ing over the evenings proceeds and toJimmy Durante for enlisting the aid of moviestars who participated in the opening nightsentertainment. Never in show world historyhas so many stars appeared in conjunctionwith a circus performance as on the openingnight of "The Big Bertha". It was a pleasantnight to be remembered by one and all asa grand evenings entertainment.

At 8:45 P.M. Merle Evans, band leader,with a wave of his hand, started the over-ture, and the show was on. Lights and alleyes centered upon acts in center ring. Per-forming Bears, mixed group presented byAlbert Rix. Roland Tiebor's Seals, withElla Ring assisting er.o ring. Other ringWalkarounds, including Lou Jacobs, Fc-''\Peterson's J(x-key Dogs. Display 2—ClowrAdler, Paul Jerome, Emmc'tt Kelly. OttoGriebling and others.

Display 3—Aerialists presented by The3 Memadas, The Man in The Moon, I.aNorma, The Platos and Lilo Juston.

Display 4—Elephants under the directionof Eugene Scott. Display 5—Clown walk-arounds and a baseball bit.

Display 6—Wire Walkers by HubertCastle, center ring, Loda Dobrite hand Sen-or Tonito. Display 7—clown numbers.

Display 8—Spec "LUANA" one of themany high-lights of the show. A mid-airextravaganza with an all Hawaiian motifand some forty or fifty pretty girl aloft ina musical ballet that proved picturesque andawarded with loud and long applause. Musicfor this number by John Ringling North,Lyrics by E. Ray Goetz and Antoinet te Con-cello, aerial director. Display 9—ClownWalkarounds.

Display 10—Gorilla Duo. Man in gor-illa outfit, while girl works in sarong. Somerope swining, climbing rope, acrobats onswinging rope then Gorilla man leaps intoseats amid audience. Display 11 — ClownCar Dumber.

Display 12—-Superb spectacle, producedby John Ringling North, staged by J. Mur-ray Anderson, costumes designed by MilesWhite, special music by Henry Sullivan andchoreographay by Richard Barstow — oneand all can take bows on "CIRCUS SER-

ROLAND BUTLER

ENADE". Here is another outstandinghigh-lite of "The Greatest Show on Earth"for the '51 season.

INTERMISSION.Display 13—The Flying Concellos, The

Flying Artonys and The Flying Comets.Display 14—Clown numbers.

Display 15—Claesson, breakaway, poleact.

Display 16—The Riding Zoppes, HidingParents and The Riding Romigs. A hold-over from last year. Display 17—Clownnumbers.

Display 18—The Rodolfos, Foot ladderjuggling. The Similis, High perch and theIdnavis, high perch.

Display 19—First t ime in America—MissMara, The Rodry Brothers and KareffManus.

Display 20—"PICNIC IN THE PARK"a novel idea in presenting liberty acts in afine display presented by Gene Lipkowska,Czesland Mroczkowski, Andre Fo.x, FranzAckerl and Luciana & Freidel. Producedby John Ringling North. Display 21 —clo>vn numbers.

Display 22—Acrobatic acts by — TheMartino Family, The Freddi Troupe, TheFredonia Family, The Bokara Troupe andthe Muratti Family.

Display 23—-High wire Alzanas, withHarold Alzana.

Display 24 - - Spec—"POPCORN andLEMONADE" a pageant well done, perfect-ly timed for the final number .of a grandwell-balanced show with the -audience leav-ing their seats high in praise for a wonder-ful evenings entertainment and one and allagreed it is "The Greatest Show on Earth".

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GREATER SHOW WORLDThe Voice of Sltoiv [inxine*.'

VOL. XXXIV APRIL, 1951 No. 4

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Entered as Second Class Matter February 17,1933 at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.,under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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The Editor Sez--HOWZABOUT IT?

Now that a majority of the tented showshave officially opened for tlu> '51 season,we take this opportunity to suggest to own-ers of riding devices who have neglected oroverlooked the importance of having theirvarious rides carefully checked and inspect-ed by expert riding device mechanics,should do so at once.

Each ride shouldget a careful goingover, properly tested,new clutch insertedwhere needed. Newparts replacing oldand a minute inspec-tion of one and allrides before placingthem on the lot forthe safety of men,women and children.

"OUROPEN

LETTER"

The same sugges-tion applies to amuse-ment part operators.

They also should instruct their ride mech-anics to give each ride a careful going over,prior to permitting passengers to ride onany of them. This also applies to all Kiddyrides in their respective kiddy park section.

Summer resorts and Beaches where rollercoasters are installed should have expertRoller Coaster mechanics to inspect eachride. New lumber uprights should replaceold worn out timber.

From a point of safety, each City andTown should have an ordinance, such ;>sexists in Greater New York, whereby CityInspectors should be compelled to inspecteach and every riding device, prior to theshow's opening and none permitted to op-

erate, unless it was passed as Okay by theinspector prior to the show's opening.

The lives of men, women and childrenare at stake. An oversight and accidentsmay cause anguish to relatives and heart-aches to the ride owner.

An ounce of prevention in this case, maysave lives or broken liml>s.

Let's start the 1951 season off — by el-iminating accidents on riding devices.

Another point, which show-owners mayoverlook, is the Firebug. Post signs aroundthe midway and show grounds or amuse-ment park, reading: PUT OUT THAT CIG-ARETTE -- BEFORE ENTERING ANYTENT.

A carelessly thrown cigarette may burna child or destroy a show in its entirety.

Now is the time to take proper precau-tions.

Check on all the above suggestions. To-morrow may be too late!

WHAT SAY YOU ALL?

HEARD IN AND AROUNDCOOK HOUSES

"Quote and Unquote"

"The showman who wants to go brokereal quick — just start living beyond yourmeans!"

"In show business — figures don't lie —but liars can figure."

The way the performers in Miami, Flor-ida Burlesque theatres work — they appar-ently assume everyone in the audience isfrom — Missouri!

Everyone he meets tries to get in h i sgood graces—like cats witli the milkman!

"Oh HIM! He can't fall off the grounds— that's where he's been all his life."

"They now call movie actors salary —the HAUL of fame!"

"A bachelor's life is just one iindarnedthing after another."

"A doctor has discovered that THINK-ING causes ulcers. This leaves showmenwith two choices; Think and get ulcers —or DON'T think and starve to death."

"A fool and his money are s::on parted."YES, who got yours?"

"The Dallas, Texas Fair should advertise— A BIG MIDWAY FOR A BIG STATE."

"IT IS BETTER TO HAVE THEMSWEAR BY YOU — THAN AT YOU!"

He: "Will you marry me?"She: "NO! But I will always admire your

taste.""No one has more trouble keeping up

with the Joneses — than their creditors.""Build castles in the air — then put foun-

dations under them.""The smallest good deed — is better than

the grantest good intention.""Success is a fraud after all. By the lime

you're rich enough to sleep late — you'reso old — you always wake up early."

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AMUSEMENT PARK LIA-BILITY LIMITED

By FRANCIS GEORGE

Riverview Park, almost lost four thousanddollars last December even though the parkwas closed.

Last summer a 213 pound customer wastossed over a fence, beaten up and knifedby a 145-pound drunk, and the big oneclaimed that the ride operator where it hap-pened should have protected him. A juryagreed, and it was about to cost the parkthe four thousand when the Illinois Su-preme Court got the case. Here is whathappened.

Business was good; the ride was crowded.Frank Meyer finally got on, but there wasno room for his wife. He asked the starterto save a place for her next, round. Thestarter tried, but at the loading platformpeople pushed for seats and Mrs. Meyerwouldn't have gotten on except that Meyerput his arm across the seat and pushedBradley off. Bradley broke a kewpie dollover Meyer's head, but that didn't seem tobother anyone and the ride went ahead,Afterward Bradley jumped Meyer, hauledhim over the fence and knifed him. WhenMeyer got out of the hospital, he sued tin-park, saying that they were responsible torhis safety all the time he was in the park,and that if they had done their duty, hewould never have lx>en hurt. The juryawarded him damages; four thousand againstthe park because they had it, and four hun-dred against Bradley, the man who did theknifing, probably because that was all tin-money he had. But Judge Schwartz of th:-Appellate Court said that before an amuse-ment park is responsible for this kind ofinjury, four things must happen:

1. There is danger of assault.

2. The park knows of the danger andcan do something about it.3. The park does not use care to guardagainst this danger, in other words doesn'ttry to prevent the assault.4. That the victim does his best to avoidthe assault.

In this case no one had taken the bean-ing with the kewpie doll seriously; Meyer,himself, thought it was in fun. There wasno warning of the assault; the park man-agement, not knowing there was going tobe trouble, couldn't have done anything tostop it. If Meyer wanted protection, lieshould have asked for it at once instead ofslopping to argue with Bradley.

Although this was a close call for River-view, the rules are clearer now. We knowthat an operator should have a few copsaround in case there is trouble, but lit- is notliable for something lie doesn't know about,

can't do anything about or somebody asksfor.

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APRIL, 1951 GREATER SHOW WORLD

NAMES MAKE NEWSTin' b i g g e s t

laugh of t l i t ' weekcaniL1 with the an-nouncement t h a tCLYDE BEATTYwould pay Mrs.Willie Jones, moth-ex of tin1 Los An-geles, CaliforniaSIAMESE TWINS.some SI 0,000 forthe twins to exhibitwith the RealtyCircus in 1951.The twins wereborn 23 months

ago. Picture if you can — Clyde Realtypaying any attractions ten grand a year?

R. M. Harvey has been threatening to re-tire for tile past decade. It took an auto-mobile accident for him to take a niiu.-hneeded rest. He then sent his resignationto Jack Mills advising him to get anotherboy to general agent the show tor the com-ing season!

Harry S. Dube, publisher of the Hingling-Hanimn Circus program did himself proudthis year. It is one of the finest ever pub-lished and in keeping with the- high standardone looks for in a show such as "The Great-est Show on Earth". The cover design byWaller Bomar, is very colorful and attrac-tive. Bomar, was selected also to do acover for Collier's maga/inc. He is ratedas "Top" among artists ami is rightfullyentitled to that rating in view of the finejob he did for Harry Dube's 1951 Ringling-Burnmn Circus Program!

While all honors were lycing bestowed up-on John Ringling North, on opening night ofthe "Big Bertha" he illustrated clearly thatHE, possesses a certain suavity of mannerthat is very becoming to the "CIRCUSKING."

Art Concello was called to Sarasota, Flor-ida, the Hingling-Barmim winter-quartersin important business on April 14th.

The Mills Bros. .Circus personnel tend-ered a dinner to Jack Mills at the Dcschler-Wallach Hotel, Colnmbur, Ohio with some500 people attending, including the CircusFans and Circus Model Buildings and manyprominent personalities such as S. J. Jessopof the United States Tent & Awning Co.of Chicago.

You will go a long way, before you finda better circus general director than PATVALDO. He knows circuses from A to /.In fact he's the TOPS in the field today!

The U. S. Tent Co. of Chicago made anddelivered the largest circus tent size J80with 3 forty-foot middle pieces for RevOral Roberts of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The tentwas erected in Tampa, Fla. this past winter.S. J. Jessop supervised the erection. Anothertent 90 with a 40 middle used in connectionwith the "Big Top" also made by U. S.Tent Co. The cost is reported to have beenabout $.'35,000.00 for just the canvas with-out the poles. The Big Top seats 10,000people. Used as a Revival meeting tent!

Bulletins!BLESSED EVENT — William Allan, a

son born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Sullivan,Jr., March 12th in Jacksonville, Illinois.Father is engineer of Eli Bridge Company,manufacturers of BIG ELI FERRISWHEELS.

Sid J. Jessop of the U. S. Tent & AwningCo., of Chicago, is on the advisory staff ofthe Quartermaster office, representing theCanvas industry. You can rest assured thatSyd Jessop will look after the best interestof not only the U. S. Government, but theoutdoor show business in general!

HERBERT DU VAI.

Adjuster of "The Greatest Show on Earth".A gentleman who rates "Tops in his field.His name is never mentioned by us withoutthe most tender regard and esteem!

'/ORITA, (the dancer) will NOT be wi ththe World of Mirth Shows this season. Shelent car to certain persons and demanded alarger percentage, so General Manager FrankBergen, informed her to accept better offersshe professed to have. The new featurewith the WOM this season will be —DORITA — a new dancer in carnk1 b:/-

n!

Strong protests against the ban of Bingogames in certain towns in New York State-by civic organizations is being fought rightnow!

Charlie (Bingo) Cohen, is enjoying lifeon his yacht in the Miami. Florida watersthese days. He is back with his wife againand living the life millionaires usually dothis time of year!

IF YOU'RE MEANT TO BE HUNG—YOU'LL NEVER GET SHOT!

The Rosenthal Bros, had a nice tie-upwith Harry S. Dube. publisher of the Ring-ling-Circus program. A coupon good foran admission and 5 rides in Palisades Amuse-ment Park was inserted in each programsold during the Madison Square Garden en-gagement!

FLASH! Sam Solomon and Robert (Bob)Parker purchased the Johnny J. Jones Ex-position in its entirety!

It is being widespread that the Show-men's League of America's active members

who have the best interest of the League atheart, were so dissatisfied with the presentclubrooms that it was decided to seek club-rooms elsewhere. So we venture to saythat in the near future the clubrooms willbe. located within a few blocks from theHotel Sherman and by Convention timemembers can pay the club a visit during theconvention!

Jul ius Kuchnel sold his interest in SavinRock, Conn, concessions to Jimmy Hurd,who will operate a pay show there this sum-mer!

Last Press Notice: Archie Blood, associa-ted with his brother George in the opera-tion of the Ringling-Barnum cook housepassed away suddenly in Sarasota, Fla.

April 26th will mark the 25th year thatDorothy Packtman has been with the GeorgeA. Hamid Booking Offices.

Mrs. Ada Dufour, wife of Lew Dufourentered Jewish Hospital, St. Loiu's, Mo.,for further treatment.

Business for the Ringling-Barnum Circusat Madison Square Garden, New York ison a par with last year!

Last Press Notice: William Ketrow, 77,former owner of Kay Bros. Circus passedaway at Miami, Fla., April 8th.

James McGinley, has been appointed as-sistant secretary to William (Bill) Hirsch ofthe Louisiana State Fair, Shreveport, La.

SAM SOLOMON AND BOBPARKER BUY JOHNNY J.JONES SHOW PROPERTYli.iinbridge, Georgia — Flash! Sam Solo-

mon, former owner of Sol's Liberty Showsand other shows who reported several yearsago, he was retiring after disposing of hisinterest in the Royal American Shows andRobert (Bob) Parker purchased the showequipment of the Johnny J. Jones Showsfrom Morris Lipsky, Harold Paddock andit is assumed E. Lawrence Phillips on April10th.

Messrs. Solomon and Parker appeared inperson at the shows winter-quarters here toconsumate the deal.

Up to time of going to press no confirma-tion at hand as to whether the new ownerswill use the Jones title, or one of the titlesformerly used by Solomon during his longcareer in carnie business.

No statement is forthcoming whether ornot Lipsky & Paddock combination will op-erate the concessions on the show this season.

A number of Fair contracts have beensigned with more ni the offing.

An announcement from Messrs Solomon& Parker as to their plans, title of show,etc., will be made shortly!

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By ELSIE MILLER

GREETINGS and HELLO to all you d< arshow folks, here, there and everywhere.Just imagine, this is April and we have hadquite a snow fall in our big Windy City.Do you think Spring will ever show uparound this neck of the woods? Sure hopeso. A lot of your friends and mine areSack in Chicago again and New York, ."ic.,after an extended vacation in Florida, Cali-fornia, Hot Springs, or most anywhi "•••where the sun was shining. PHOEBECARSKY and daughter LYNN spent sometime in Florida. Met all her wonderfulfriends out there, many show folks and en-joyed their stay immensely. Hello thereFAY KELLEY. Fay will be with the JohnH. Marks shows again this Season and here'sgood luck to you Fay for a good Season,you and your hubby. Mr. and Mrs. Kellcyat this writing are visiting Gash and GertieMiller in Daytona Beach.

And to mine and your lovely friendLOUISE WARNING, hello and gosh whata time yon folks did have with the Mr.Roberts Co. HENRY FONDA, leading manof the show, personnel and Stage Crew hadto make up for forty-three (43) hours oflost time. The show was snow bound, be-tween Minneapolis and Omaha, actually anine hour trip turned into a nightmare. Thefolks ran out of food and water, so the Stew-ard of the Dining Gar saved the day andbought up all the food he could find in somelittle town where they were stranded. Theyall deserve a lot of credit, also the poor menwho cleaned the tracks and got the plows towork. Omaha is Mr. Fonda's home town,after they reached that destination, theyplayed two shows without scenery, as theTheatre has been sold out days ahead oftime. Poor Arthur Warning and Crew hadto work all night to get the show up forWednesday Matinee and the evening per-formance. Sounds like the olden days,when the shows would get stranded, only(his time it wasn't the show's fault. Guessyou could fill a book what happened in those43 or 58 hours. Am glad you finally madeit and hope your spot at the Orpheum The-atre in Kansas City will be different.

Since I chatted with you folks in my lastcolumn, I have had the pleasure of beingthe guest of LOUISE R. DONAHUE. Weattended SOUTH PACIFIC with JANETBLAIR and RICHARD EASTHAM, DIOSACOSTELLO and RAY WALSTON. We haddelightful seats in the 8th row Center and

what a show. Don't miss it. Louise andI had cocktails and dinner at the ChicagoAthletic Club. Louise's hubby is a mem-ber there and well known. HOSTESSETHEL LYONS and ANGELINE RADOS-TA were so charming in the Pink Cocktailroom which is positively gorgeous and thoseof you who have been there, know what Imean. TED HENCLEWSKI sure knowshow to shake up those drinks and cocktailsand Ted, I like them frosted. Hmmm. . . .We had a delicious dinner in their spaciousdining room upstairs and that is one day Ican say was well spent with ideal Companyall around. Louise looked perfectly stun-ning in her gorgeous BLUE MINK COATand what a dream of a hat she had on, inpale blue and contrasting colors of Cornflowers. Most becoming to her type oflx>auty. THANKS SO MUCH for a delight-ful time Louise.

NAN RANKINE one of our Chicago pals,your friend and mine, is still in Coral Gables.Fla., with her son Tom and family. Wassorry to hear about Nan's manager in showbusiness W. A. (Doc) Johnson being hos-pitalized for a few weeks and do hope he iswell on the road to recovery. And say Doc.hurry up and get well, as you know, won'tIx1 long and you will be out in show busi-ness again, like your old self and a realshowman. Nan has a very clever Mentalistact and Doc and she are a team which can-not be found anywhere.

LILLIAN and RALPH CLICK have justreturned from Florida after a three month'sbusiness trip. They had a lovely visit withMrs. HELEN WILSON and husband DOCat their beautiful Motel Santa Carlos atFort Myers, Florida. They reminisced aboutold times in show business. The Wilsonsare off the road twelve years. They alsovisited with ESTHER FELKE of Tampa,Fla., and VIRGINIA KILLIPS, formerly ofChicago and now of Tampa, Fla., alsoADOLPH KOSS of Tampa, who has Con-cessions in Rivervicw Park here in Chicago.Am sure you had a wonderful time whileyon were away folks. Lillian and Ralphhave concessions and rides also in River-view Park, Chicago, and are two peoplewho sure keep busy. They are building agorgeous Ranch Home way up North some-where, as they have sold their immenselarge home, which has Ix-en a problem tohandle, as they are on and off the roadmost of the Season. DORLINDA REED

AND FRED in New Orleans, La. Two showpeople who also are on the go most of theyear. Hope you two are fine at this writing.

Well, Hi' DOLLY SNAPP. Dolly andhusband are owners of the Snapp's GreaterShows and are having a good time downFlorida way. They went as far as KeyWest and found it very warm during theirtrip, as it is really a beautiful City. Theyleft for home via East Coast. Nice tripdear?

Now let's see on the sick list so far haveheard that GRACE GOSS who has had sucha bad spell of the FLU this winter, is wellon the mend again, also MARGUERITESHAPIRO, when last heard of is making atrip to the West Coast for her health. BillicLou Wasserman is still confined in ChicagoFresh Air Sanitarium, 2451 W. Howard St..Chicago and will be for some time. Billicis crocheting a lovely lace table cloth whichshe will donate to the Ladies' Auxil iary ofthe Showmen's League1 of America to !«•used for a raffle or on Summer activities.Nice gesture, Billic. Get well, that is themain thing right now. Then we had ANNSLEYSTER who was very ill with the Flu,Jeanette Wall, also, Lena Schlossberg hasIjeen up and down with colds, MARGARETHOCK also. VIOLA PARKER was inMartha Washington Hospital and is up andout again, fit as a fiddle and oh say, we areso very sorry to hear about RUTH MAR-TONE, you all know Ruth, show girl oflong standing. She was confined in hos-pital in Kansas City and is well again. LI-LIS CHILDS is in Vet's Hospital (9) DesMoines, Iowa. lilis served in the U. S.Army for a long time. We are so sorry youfractured your hip Lilis and good luck fora speedy recovery.

Our deepest sympathy went forth this pastmonth to CLARA ETTA BARKER, wholost her dear father, Mr. Arnold, who hasIx-cn ill so long. BLANCHE LATTO whoowns the Lynch's Bath House in downtowndistrict, Chicago, in Palmer House Build-ing, too has been ill, but we are glad she isalright again. CONGRATULATIONS toMr. and Mrs. A. L. Filograsso in the mar-riage of their daughter MARY LOUISE toROBERT FREDERICK CALLBECK, QMC3, USNR, on Saturday, March 31st, 1951,at onr Lady of Lourdes church, LeUcnd andAshland Ave., Chicago. May all your troublesbe little ones, Mary Lou and Robert.

VIOLA and NOBLE C. FAIRLY left torwinter quarters in Eldorado, Ark., with theTWENTIETH CENTURY SHOW. Goodluck to you both for a prosperous SeasonViolu and Noble.

VIRGINIA KLINE was last heard of inLos Angeles, Calif., visiting friends and rela-tives and then making a trip to Mexico.Hopi you had a nice time Virginia. FRAN-CES and LOU KELLER have spent most ofthe hazardous winter in a warmer climate inHot Springs, Ark. and are anticipating re-turning some time in April.

MAE SOPENAR and CLAIRE SOPEN-AR are motoring to New York City, N, T.and Vlae will head on alone then to Provi-dence, R. I. for a vacation with relativesand friends. Mae's hubby Eddie will plan

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to fly down shortly thereafter to visit withall the folks. GERTRUDE MORRIS andhubby who live- hen- in Chicago have spentmost of the winter here and had a good timeat the Shrine Circus in Chicago. Am sorryI didn't get to go Gertrude, perhaps nextlime.

A number of Showmen's League of Amer-iea folks and Auxiliary attended the Circusalso.

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Miami Show-men's Ass'n and the Miami Showmen'sAssn't held their MEMORIAL SERVICESon Sun., March 11, 1951, at 1:00 p.m. Thefirst one that was evor held by these won-derful show people. Order of Service wasas follows: ORGAN' PRELUDE, ReginaMcLindon; INVOCATION by ChaplainCLARICE DUNN, LORD'S PRAYER byLadies' Aux., led by chairman of MemorialService, ETHEL WEEK. TALK, GEORGEA. BEAUT1GAM, SOLO by Regina Mc-Lindon, SERMON and EULOGY, ChaplainPhil Cook, SOLO, Regina McLindon. Pre i-dents George Golde nand Dolly Young,BENEDICTION, William Bryant andCLOSING CEREMONIES "The Reading ofthe 23rd Psalm. How wonderful, and whatGood work all these show people do yearin and year out.

Saaay . . . My Pal IDA CHASE is cutagain. This time she is in Webster, S. Dak.having a good time. Her niece was beingmarried. She went via plane. HappyLanding on your return Ida.

ALICE and HARRY HENNIES havebeen going back and forth to Hot Springs.Ark., together on business and now thatmost of it is taken care of perhaps they canremain in Houston, Texas where they havebuilt a wonderful Kdddieland in a beautifulPark in Houston, Texas.

SOPHIA CARLOS is still in Miroa Loma.Calif, on a ranch with her relatives and lookslike she loves it out there and expects tostay until she hits the road again.

Our BESS HAMID had a siege of illnessand tried to relax in Miami, Fla.. but amafraid she and George have too many fr iendsout there to be able to relax much, nor any-where for that matter of fact. But Bess isback in Flushing, N. Y. again and I do hopemuch better than when last heard of. Youknow I've had mail returned to me friimsome of the following: Kathleen Sutton.Emma Wagner of Montreal, Que., Can.,Florence Aron of Canada. Where are youdear??? Grace Weincr, and many others,would appreciate it if you folks would getin touch with me at my home address."4215 W. 5th Ave., Chicago 24, 111. Pleasedo.

Hello HELEN B. SMITH. Do hope :.oufolks all had a good t i m e as gues ts of l i eOrange show at San Bernardino on a spe-cial invitation of Orville Craft, who has theMidway. Nice that he served a free lunchand Refreshments. There were (57) fitty-seveh in the Caravan which left Los An-geles and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Pa-cific Coast Showmen's Association also wrcinvited. Know you all enjoyed it. i'hefolks also had an Easter Party and paraded

with special hats. Prizes were awarded tothe ugliest and prettiest. Sounds fascin-ating Helen. See where your sister Vir-ginia Kline and Marie Kortes left for MexicoCity.

The entire Show World regrets the lossof one of the Finest and First Women Ani-mal Trainers in the world. She was BigTop "Princess, Dixie King. She was 73years old when she passed away this monthand performed with the Ringling Bros. Cir-cus for many years. Princess Dixie is sur-vived by two brothers, L. E. Bennett ofHouston, Texas and T. R. Bennett of LosAngeles, Calif. Ringling Bros. Circus, senta Colossal bouquet of Orchids to Dixie, in-scrilx-d "TO THE BEST" which was placedin her hands at burial. Our deepest sym-pathy goes forth at this time to the be-reaved family. MYRTLE HUTT is still inSan Francisco, Calif. Myrtle has her Needlesconcession with one of the large stores thereand doing fine. Hi' Myrt.

Oh yes, would like to mention our PalsGRACE and CHARLES GOSS have ac-quired a gorgeous new 30-foot trailer. Itis very modern, has three closets, a keenDixie Gas range with oven light and tinier,a five foot electric refrigerator and doublesinks. Even has a broom closet, and pic-ture windows in living room. GRACEBROWN has been hospitalized in San Fran-cisco, Calif., however, is out again and re-cuperating nicely. Grace says she will planto go to Texas where it is real warm whenher doctor will allow her to travel.

MRS. LYNN GRECO is with the GemCity Shows this Season. The Ladies' Aux-iliary of the Hot Springs Showmen's Ass'nreally had a St. Patrick's party March the17th and GRACE GOSS had it announcedover the Radio Stations in both morningand evening papers. Some publicity, ell???Am sure it proved most successful. Howdid they do York??? Pretty good. I'll say.from the reports I have received. Yorla isthe President of the Aux. of Hot SpringsShowmen's Ass'n Aside to ROSE PAGE.. . . Say Rose, where are you hiding???Most any day will be expecting to hear fromyou out there in California.

MR. and MRS. HENRY T. BELDENand daughter DOROTHY who have beenvacationing in Miami, Fla., will be back inour midst sometime this April. We surewill be glad to see you folks again. ETTAand TOM HENDERSON, where are you???Last heard from you dear folks you were inNew Orleans. Did you get to California?

Heard that our good friend Madge Buck-ley is ill in California? Do hope she isgetting along much better. Best wishesfrom all the folks in Chicago and every-where to you for a speedy recovery Madge.You will be hearing from me soon.

Understand the Ladies' Auxil iary of theDetroit Showmen's Ass'n also had a lovelySt. Patrick's day party with about (200)two hundred in attendance. Program andparty was handled by Margie Mansell. Onthe committee were: Frances Moran andTina Wiener in charge of buffet lunch.Lottie Johnson, refreshments. Berniee Stahlacted as cashier and Betty Gree'iey, Clara

Silber, Grace Zeigler and Charlotte Rich-ardson assisted. Dancing lasted until allhours with a. real band. Entertainment wastops. Al Werner and orchestra furnishedthe music. Hello EDITH HARGRAVEand PEGGY FORSTALL, on the WestCoast. Hope you all had a nice Easter.

Will close my column for this issue anddon't forget to take the GREATER SHOWWORLD MAGAZINE with you whereveryou go. It contains interesting news aboutyour friends and mine and show people allover the country. Good luck for now andGOD BLESS YOU ALL.

EASTERN STATES EXPOS.Announcement of a net profit of $96,-

589.67 for all operations in 1950, after de-preciation on buildings ami equipment, wasa highlight of the annual meeting of theEastern States Sxposition held in the BrooksMemorial! Building on the West Springfieldgrounds. Fifty trustees from six New Eng-land slates were in attendance and unani-mously reelected Howard W. Solby of New-ton as president of the institution.

J. Loring Brocks, Jr., of Springfield, Mass.,was elected a vice president, as was CharlesH. Smith of Pawtucket, R. I., who was alsonamed chairman of the Rhode Island groupof Exposition trustees.

MILAN FAIR ENTRIESREACH NEW HIGH

Milan — The International Milan SamplesFair opened here and all signs to date in-dicate that rlie number of participants willbe well over 9,000. Although final tabula-tions have not yet been made, fair officialsseem well pleased with the turnout. Lastyear 8,428 participants took part in the fair.

Foreign entries, which last year amountedto .3,096 exhibitors, increased considerably.Over 80 countries are Ix'ing represented.

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GREATLY SHOW WORLD APRIL, 1951

Show Business and Show Folkon the West Coast

By PEGGY M. FORSTALL

The San Bernardina 36th Annual OrangeShow has conic and gone. Again no onemade enough to write home about. In factit was worse than ever. Many of the con-cessionaires, didn't get off the nut. The Sil-ver Dollar gate didn't help to bring in thepeople and those that did come in, just didn' tspend. The dollar gate, evidently kept thefolks away. The twenty bucks a foot tothe concessionaires, was more than theycould make. They all felt like they we'.vbeing hit, coming and going. Most likelyseveral will he missing next year unlessprices are changed both ways. Orvi l leCraft and his 20 Big shows there ar>d mostrides were empty during the engagement.The PCSA Day, found practically only mem-bers there. A good crowd turned out anda very nice lunch was served. Leave it toOrville and Mabelle to do things up ri^l•:.Everyone had a very nice time and fel f

sorry for those, who was working hard try-ing to get a dime. The Cavalcade cot'.s'-.t • 1of 72 cars, with Sammy Dolman in chargeand he did a good job geting it organixi Iand on its way. The old saying "Next yiv:it will be better, wasn't so this year at leas'.NOT at this spot.

Calvin Enfield, opens his Fiesta Shov.'sApril l()th with 6 rides, 20 concessions, 2side shows and 2 grind stores. Cal, is own-er and manager of the org. W. A. Craw-ford, is boss mechanic. Darlene Jandt,Secy, and Treas. This will mark their 4ti iseason and according to all reports, it's ..swell outfit to be with. We all say C-o-.xiLuck, Cal.

Regular Associated Troupers had a sw. i!time at their Easter Parade, held in t h . v rchili-rooms. Sunshine Jackson emseed theshow. Lillabelle Williams, Tillie Palam.i-teer and Mora Bagby donated pri/es. Lu-cille King, donated the caster eggs, whichwere colored by Jetta Clancy and DaisyMarion. Bable Miller won first prize forthe most original hat. Nell Robiteaux won2nd prize for the prettiest hat and Phil Dar-ling won the Booby prize. Clara Trotter,Shirley Hickox, Irene Hester and Bog Les-lie were visitors. Myrtle Ilutt and LarryNathan, came down from San Francisco toattend the affair.

The Showfolks of America celebrated wi tha Big Party on St. Patricks Day. Bill Colesemseed the show. Cornbeef and cabbagewas served and a good time was had by all.We were all sorry to hear about the Jamesand Robert Shiver car accident en route toCalifornia. The boys were on their wayhere to go to work for the Velare Brothers.. . . All our ANXIETY OVER THE JOEKRUG heart attack has been put at ease.Seems Joe had a very bad case of poison-ing and is back with us again.

Craft's 20 Big will again play the FresnoDistrict Fair this year, this being the first

time since 1948. . . . The West Coast Showsmade it in '49 and Larry Herri's in '50. LeeBrandon, closed the deal. . . . Myrtle I l u t t .who was here dur ing lh :> w i n t e r is reportedto be doing very well with her punch-needlebusiness in San Franeiseo. She has f u l l yrecovered from her recent illness. . . . Elsie(Calvert) Brizendine, l e f t here for Seattle,Washington to be with her mother. Elsiehad a very nice1 job here all winter workingfor a Lerner Dress Shop. She at tended theAuxi l ia ry and Troupers club every meeting.. . . Benny Samuels left here to look afterhis rides in and around Chicago MikeDoolan will be leaving his nest here forChicago to look after his Kiddyland in theWindy City. Ann and children will joinhim later.

Matt Herman, is leaving us to join theRoyal American Shows in Florida. Mattwill take his Mother back to St. Louis, Mo.She spent all winter here in their new htiuie.Morosa expects to join him later! . . . PeteKortes is in Mexico City with his side showand is reported to be doing wonderful busi-ness. Wife Marie and Virginia Kline mo-tored to be with Mike and to explore thecity. They are expected back almost anyday now. . . . Prince Dennis and Lady Eth-1.midgets, just recently joined Pete! . . . MikeKrekos, that grand showman out here hastaken himself and wife to Athens, Greeceto lie with his mother on her 90t!i birthday.Leo Myers and Coe will see that the WestCoast Shows will do better and bigger thanever while Mike is away. Max Hillmanis on the show this year. Al Rodin w l i > iswith the show and who has been a verysick man, is reported much better sine" hisoperation. The Flying Berratti's is ngainthe free act on the show for the 3rd ye:r.

Betty C. Coe came in for a short visitand attended the Auxiliary. Said businessso far was okey, when weather permits. . . .Sammy Dolman made a fast trip home tobe with Lucille and he also attended, paida visit to the club! . . . The ladies wso soldtickets at the Orange Show were: MorosaHerman, Ann Doolan, Mabel Brown, NinaLcvine. The Mon;es collected on this salewas for the PCSA building fund! . . . Bythe grapevine I heard George Perkins has10 weeks booked with the Industrial Show,that will set up near the Santa Anita racetrack. George will have his funny Fordon the spot. Several attraction's, conces-sions and shows are being booked for th"affair . . . . Helen Ilenn reported doing verygood on Martin's Shows in Comnton. Sheis doing better there and works less than atthe Orange show.

The Doolans and The Hermans, wentover to Bakersfield to visit the West CoastShows opening. Weather was a l i t t l e chilly,but the night tip was okay. . . . Ann andMorosa had a nice visit with "our missinglink" Lille Shue! . . . Peggy Steinberg, who

has been under doctors care all winter isnow able to join Joe on the Siebrand Show.Peggy took a fast trip to Yuma to visit lastweek and on her way home stopped and hada nice visit with Madge and Buck Buckley!. . . Lee and Jcane Branson in Parker, Ari-zona where they are fishing and enjoyinglife, before starting out this year! . . . Caland Betty Lippcs and the Hobdays arcacross the river, fishing in the same river.They visit back and forth by motor boatand next week yours truly will be fislungand rowing too. It's a long time promise,that is finally being fulfilled. Am goingover with Elsie and Harry Sucker and look-ing forward to a swell trip and a very nicetime.

Babe and Moxie Miller arc going to behome guards this year. . . . Estellc and El-mer Hanscom are in from San Francisco,where they have been most of the winter.Estelle has been on the sick list, but isokey now! . . . Dutch and Bertha McCarthyare seen around the club a lot! . . . Mar.'eRliodes is now working in one of our de-fense plants! . . . Patti Cook who was insuch a terrible car accident some two yearsago is her darling self again. All her braceshave been taken off. Nina Rogers Levinewas called back home to Los Angeles onnews of an accident to her mother.

Circus

The Clyde Realty Circus is with us rightnow. Our Eddie Brown is there out frontevery day. The weather has lieen won-derful and business has been very good.The P.C.S.A. and Auxiliary were Clyde'sguests opening night. The following Mon-day night the personnel of the Beatty showwere guests of the PCSA and the Auxiliary.A nice lunch was served. Dancing and anenjoyable time was had by all. The showopened in Shreveport, la. Very short onworking men, but picked up a few. Leon-ard Aylesworth was to lx> superintendent,le f t a l te r the 3rd day. Lee Spain has nowfilled his job. Archie Johnson, assistant.Edward E. Howe, chief of press with J. R.Hervey. Jack Knight and Ray Smith as-sis t ing. Norman Carroll and his wife archandl ing radio and TV, Jack White, uptownticket seller. Harry Brown and Pat Gra-ham on the lot. Tom Planck, contractingAgent, Claude Lee, 24 hour man also DanDiv. George Davis, Cook house. Vic Rob-bins band. The show plans are going intoCanada this year. Ted DeWayne acts whohave been playing indoor dates and openedwitli Julian West is now with this show. TheCaudillo's arc again with the show. DorothyHerbert working the riding Tiger and Ele-phant act. The1 show is practically the sameas last year. The Ivanovs, The Fantinos,The Ezquedas and Pape & Hence are nowacts. We all miss Jack Doyle who was withit last year. Harry Golup, manager sideshow. Clowns on the show are the old standbvs: Mel Rcnick. Eddie Harris, Charlie Hil-derra, Charles Rainor, Arden Beedier, FrankCain, Jerry Lewis, Len Keeler, Dick Bond,Lany Herveyn, Theo. Haussmann, PeggyWaddell, Hugh & George Perkins, George

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Acaris is breaking 3 new tigers. Charles S.Cox, Jr., the announcer. Saw Murray Fineand his Mitzie, also Everett Harrt and FayAllen. About every one that has ever beenconnected with show business has Ix-cn onthe lot visiting. George Anderson, studioanimal trainer, has been seen almost even-day. The two baby elephants really holdthe crowd in the menagerie. Scottie Saf-ford is train-master. Johnnie Kline, eques-trian director, George Smith, manager.

The West Bros. Circus has come and gone.This show is owned and operated In- Ju l ianand Clara West and Frank DuKiie. Wasgood to see Julian and Clara, even if it wasfor a very short visit. Harry Doran. bill-poster, Douglas Miller and Charlie Jabson,advance. Roy Bible and Clara West dothe announcing. The show plays sponsoreddates. Business around this vicini ty wasrather spotty, but reports are, they are do-ing very good around Nevada and Ari/ona.The show consists of Marvin Wicks, mi l i ta ryponies, worked by Delores Wicks. MissBarbara does Webb. Roy Bible l ias t l i -chip terrapin. Mrs. Wicks on Ir-r horse"Silver Moon", Paul Gordon, cyclist. HayHenry, juggling. Ruby Muller, elephantruby. The Piema, teeter board and highperch. The 4 Renaldos, risley and footjuggling. In El Monte a native PennyParker, assisted in clown alley. The firstday in El Monte, (Sunday) they gave' amatinee only.

Siebrand Bros. Circus opened in Phoenix.Arizona. Doc Zeiger is back with the org.But Clara is home trying to get well. Thisshow is a combination circus and carnie.So they usually play a week in a town. Actsare: Ivan, Mary & Clif Henry, rolling glolx'.Tony Annida and Alice Gutierrez, web,wire and ladders. Harry Ross. dogs. Bon-nie and Phil Bonta, perch. Harry ('larkmanages horses and pony drills. Artie &Ed Weidermann, elephant and dogs, poniesand monkeys. Maurice Marmolejo, wire andDenita & Poneha, Spanish dance. Th"Grace and Jack Fairburn, Harry Ross, Cokoand Moko. . . . Business in Phoenix wasvery good. From there they went to Yuma.

Wallace and Clark have the Big Top upwith 3 rings on their winter-quarters loton Del Rev Avemic in Venice, Californ'a.Their 18 trucks and trailers have been newlypainted. A special job was done' on thehippo wagon. Hippo is onw enroute fromNew York, is supposed to be a very big oneand weighs 7,000 Ibs. Elsinore, Californiawill be their opening date, with HeiH't andParis to follow. Norman Anderson and hismother are owners and operators. P. Halland George Leonard, have the side show.Joe Wilcox, boss billposter. John Foss, gen-eral agent. Ernie Merrill and Jack Wilcox.advertising car. Jack Turner, fixer. \\ a l terJenier, has his 3rd "Buddie" seal act. U swife Ethel will join the show later. BernieGrieggs and Family will handle the clowns.Two elephants supposed to be about 80 yearsold, Willemina and Cross Country Babeare with the show. Dale Petroff, well knownhorse trainer has two Liberty act of 1 horses.M. E. "Shreveport" Etheridge has Big Toptickets.

The Flamante Circo will make their open-ing in Phoenix, Arizona. This show is ownedand operated by Herbie and Chatta Webber.Chatta is a former Escalande, who are wellknown circus folks. The Escalande Familyhad their own li t t le show in and around LosAngeles for several years. This year theywill specialize only in Mexican acts and playMexican towns near the border. The showwill lx> announced in Mexican. . . . EddieGrady who worked several spots with AlMoss, has returned home to his Golda andSon! . . . Al Moss left here last week to jointhe Rogers Circus in Jacksonville, Florida.Al will be Supt. of the show. . . . J immyMcGee, is now with the Polack (Eastern)show, working phones for Clyde Harris! . . .Ben Morris closed with the West Bros. Cir-cus and is now making h's home in LosAngeles. The Amazing Monahans, tisleyact are now resting in San Fernando Valley,visiting friends, while one of their boys isrecuperating from an operation on his arm.The act has several fair dates booked in ourterritory! . . . Mabel Starke and Eddie Treesare still in South America with the CircoAmericano. Mabel expects to be back soon!. . . It W;LS good to see Grace and PoodlesHannaford who are now doing picture work.Dotty and Phil Phelps have gone back toChicago after playing several spots aroundL.A. They have a very nice balancing act.

Harry Quillen was voted an Honorary LifeMember in the Circus Clown Club as theirofficial photographer! . . . A letter fromSteve Fanning on the King Bros Circus say-ing "He now has 12 elephants. Five havejust been purchased from the' Daily Bros.Circus.

Theo. Forstall is back in the saddle onthe Ringling-Barnum Circus in New York.Theo left here feeling beter than ever, afterhis operation and are we glad that 's over.

BE WITH YOU AGAIN IN THE NEXTISSUE. ADIOS. — Peggy Forstall.

MID WEST NEWSBy A. E. DUMONT

Chicago — Polack Bros. Medinah Templedate proved to be a financial and artisticsuccess. The show was studded with staracts and the whole bill was top bracket, ex-pertly balanced and presented. MainS.L.O.A. memlxTS attended one of the per-formances as guests of the management andthey collectively voted it tops in Circusentertainment.

The Cole Bros. Circus opens at the Sta-dium on the 20th. It features Tcrcll Jacobsand his cats.

The Show Folks of America is still pro-gressing at the Sherman Hotel with newmcmlxTS, benefits and their resale shop.Harry Bartron of Pantomine fame appearedin legit at the Eleventh Street Theater in"Detective Story". Rivcrview Park is doll-ing up for its grand opening on May 16thand it looks like a bang-up season in thoffing.

The Hobby Show at the Coliseum didnot do so good.

WORLD TRANSPORTA-TION FAIR

The World Transportation Fair broke itslong silence today on the City of Arcadia'srefusal to issue a business license, under theguise of exercising police power.

"We have striven, perhaps to a fault , toavoid any controversy in print regarding theWorld Transportation Fair, Ira W. Curry,producer, said. "But now the time has conicwhen the citizens of Arcadia and the worldat large should know how a small, but vocalminority has swayed the Mayor and certaincity councilmen, to impose its selfish willon the community without due regard forthe established laws.

"The legal department of the WorldTransportation Fair has been instructed tofile suit to prevent the City of Arcadia frompursuing its discriminatory action againstthe Fair in passing legislation under theguise of police power."

In support of this suit, Curry revealed, thelegal department has in its possession swornaffidavits attesting to a statement made byMayor Sullivan to the effect that thoughno legal grounds exist for refusal of a li-cense the Fair will be prevented fromopening just the same.

It also has knowledge of misrepresenta-tion on the part of persons circulating peti-tions opposing the Fair and of threats of theuse of boycotts on merchants who standfirm in their support of the exposition.

The Mayor's statement was made at theclose of last Tuesday night's council meet-ing at which the City of Arcadia put offuntil May 1, 1951 the hearing on the newlyfiled permit after Curry had Ix'cn assuredby a city official in the presence of witnesses,that if the amended application for the li-cense was filed by April 5, it would beheard on April 17. The amended applica-tion was filed April 3.

"It is obvious," Curry said, "that this isthe start of a series of delaying actions cal-culated to prevent the Fair from opening.It was this action and the Mayor's subse-quent statement which convinced the Fairmanagement that there was no course leftbut to seek to negate the council's arbi-trary actions in the courts where we knowwe will receive a just and unbiased hearing.

LOS ANGELES COUNTYFAIR TO BE HELD ASSCHEDULED THIS FALLLos Angeles County Fair will lx> held as

scheduled this fall in its big exposition park-in Pomona.

This statement by President-Manager C.B. (Jack) Afflerbaugh follows a1 previous re-port that representatives of a division of(lie Howard Hughes Aircraft Corporationwere negotiating for a lease of th? groundsand buildings to provide additional plant fa-cilities. President Afflerbaugh said tha t allnegotiations between the fair and the com-pany had been dropped and thai prepara-tions for the annual event are now enteringthe intensive phase.

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HATS OFF TO THE CIRCUS BANDHow They Play The Show

By Lewis Belmorc

It has often occured to me thatr sonic reviewer, myself included,ought to take enough time onsometime to review tin- CircusBand. This reticence on the partof reporters may be attributed tothe fact that they do not consider

themselves music critics. Rightly so. TheMusic's field is a highly specialized one re-quiring a thorough knowledge of music ofall schools from Bach down to jazz orchestia-tion, correct cuing, the various instruments,tone, and the highlights and shadows of amusical score, to mention j u ^ t a few i t e m ,that are part of the music critic's business.

Music Critics do not review Circus Bands,as a general rule. In fact, I doubt if anysuch review can be found in the files ot anewspaper office anywhere. These bandsare damned with fadnt praise consisting ofa few lines, such as, "the band, under so-and so's direction, played well throughout."We believe the Circus Band is deserving ofmore than just passing mention. We be-lieve it is entitled to. and should be accordeda full scale review of their work. So heregoes.

Ringling Bros Barmmi-Bailey Circus Band,•>() in nunilxT, and under the competent di-rection of Merle Evans, is an ins t i tu t ion initself. It's strictly big-time in every particu-

lar.Consider for a moment what it requires

to play the "Greatest Show on Earth." Everyact, even- piece of business calls for accu-rate timing. The Baud is an important p ;r!of this colossal undertaking. Like the ex-ecutives on top, and right down to the razor-backs, the musicians have the i r work laidout for them. The Circus is run with theprecision of a huge machine.

Boland Butler, noted General Press Rep-resentative of the "Big Show," has on num-erous occasions released for publication tlvful l facts with regard to figures, numbers,tonnage, food expenditures, transportationdifficulties, and the hundred and one detailsand problems that come up d.illy and requireconstant attention and expert handling tokeep the Greatest Show on Earth mo\ing.

The Circus runs on schedule come helland high water. It defies the elements, andlaughs at Father Time. The various groupsthat make a circus function are like an in-tricate system of telephone wires all send-ing their messages at the same time. TheBand is an important part of t l rs scheui"

of tilings.Without the Band, any show, no nr.itter

how elaborately, efficiently and sumptuously

staged and mounted, would be Hat and offkey, so to speak.

The Circus Band keeps audience' interestat high pitch at all times. It cont inues todo so throughout the performance. 'Un-important part it plays in the co-ordinatedwhole of a smooth running performance is

told here for the first time in HOW THEYPLAY THE SHOW.

The Conductor and 30 men comprise theCirciis Band of the Greatest Show on Earth.

They are attired in grey-blue uniformswith gold braid trimmings befitting theirexalted position and place of importance inthe Show.

The Band Box at Madison Sq. Garden issituated in the extreme Northwest cornerof the upper tier or circle of audience seatsclose to the main performance entrance tothe hippodrome track.

As the hour approaches for the openingintroduction the bandsmen, one by one, taketheir seats. When all the seats are occupied,the conductor, nattily attired in a uniformsimilar to his men, enters. With quick stepshe takes his place in the Band Box overlook-ing the entire arena.

The lights of the auditorium are loweredand silence settles over the Garden—butits a silence of expectancy. The momenthas come for the Circus to get under way.

The Conductor raises his baton — the In-troductory Music is played, and the Show-is on.

From the opening Fanfare and March tothe closing Grand Finale Circus Jamboree"Popcorn and Lemonade," every action, col-or, mood and expression as depicted by thepageantry of the Greatest Show on Earthwas highlighted and minutely followed bythe Circus Band.

Henry Sullivan composed and arrangedthe musical score.

The Circus Band is very strong on AT-TACK and ACCENT.

Rhythm — a Greek word meaning 'returnof accent' can be likened to the groundswell of the ocean. The circus bandsmenknow their rhythms.

The Circus Band in stressing the strongaccents of a musical group (there are basic-ally one two, one a duple or 2 group, theother a triple or 3 group) convey strength,courage and poise to performers. Also thet iming of acts.

In an aerial act the gymnasts synchronizethe down drop of their trapeze and theirhand contacts, leaps and swings, to thestrong accents given them by the Bands'playing. The music is played in a rhythmof 3.

A spiral whirl is taken care of by a rollplayed on the snare drum.

Agitation and mounting suspense is con-veyed by an increase in volume (calledcrescendo in musical parlance). When sus-pense is at its height, the drummer ceasesthe roll, muffs the drums snare, and thereis musical silence. The drummer plays thesame part in the leaps of the Equestrianseither working in groups or from horse tohorse.

Leaps through hoops are cued in thr sameway, with the roll drum predominating the

musical setting, as a general rule.Anything of a running nature — like a

horse being driven around the ring —- isaccompanied by music either in 2/4 or 4/4time, which is a duple rhythm. Why?

The reason for the Circus Band accom-panying ground acts with Marches Galops,and Musical Groups in a 2 rhythm, andaerial acts and anything above ground withWalty.es (a rhythm of 3) is laid to historicalfacts of great ant iquity.

The rhythm of two, basically, has itsfoundation in physical man — he havingtwo arms, two legs, two eyes, two nostrils.two lungs, etc. So, any action of the bodyis best accompanied musically by a duplegrouping. This grouping we find in March-es, Galops and in 4/4 time.

The rhythm of three (triple) came laterwhen man, in order to honor his God, addedanother Ix'at to the two founded on theorgans of the bod)' (mentioned above — andthus created a rhythm of three.

T:>e music throughout the Show was inkeeping with every action taking place inthe vast hippodrome. Every performer ofthe Circus from the swinging trape/e, slack-wire, wire-walking somersaulting, tumbling,death-defying aerialist artists — from tum-blers, jugglers, acrobats and buffoonery ofclowns — through to the animal acts whereSea Lions, Bears, Dogs, Horses, and Ele-phants performed, had its own individualthemes and cuing.

The Circus was a living phantasmagoriaof color and tone throughout.

The underlying basic rhythm was theBolero of Spain. Many of the numberswere founded on the 6 tone oriental scale.

Besides the various individual and groupacts, diere were four pageants interspersedthrough the performers.

The music of the theme songs of three otthese were specially written for this 81styear presentation of Ringling Bros.-Barnum& Bailey Circus by Henry Sullivan. JohnMurray Anderson was the lyracist of al l .

John Ringling North, President and ChiefExecutive of Ringling Bros, and Barnum-Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., wrote thetheme song for the Fourth Pageant "Lua-wauna" — a single swinging trape/e actaccompanied by an aerial ballet and xylo-phone orchestra of 60 girls performing inmid-air. E. Ray Goety. wrote the lyrics.

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A Modern Exposition Styled for A FairBy R. J. PEARSE

Styles for fairs change almost as often as

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do styles for woman's hats. The d'ftcr-enec between tin1 two is that women desirea change, while with fairs it is tin- publicdemanding a change. ' ,,x ;i The statement is

often made thatfairs art1 as ol.l ;;shistory, but wlvih-cr this is t in ; 1 ornot the modern f.riris tremendoiut)different from th?ancient tail's. KadiytHar 'her;1 are avariety ol changes\ \ l i ich 111:1 1 I) •i n . id l . i I n nu !h •modern f a i r up todate. A modern

fa i r is planned to provide for these changesadapted to the basic principles of th:' in-i t ia l Master Plan.

The basic principles of tlr.1 modern fairremain move or less stalk1 but th;1 arrange-ment of the buildings, the 1 /.oiling of thevarious groups, the planning for traffic fa-cilities and the routing of t raff ic throughand by certain buildings are problems wh'chmust l>e planned unit by u n i t always keep-ing in mind thai each unit is just one p;;rlof the entire fair yet that unit must fit intoits place in tlr.1 over-all plan.

The New . Cotton Palace Exposition inWaco, Texas, brings us up to date on thelatest arrangement for fa i r buildings andplans for the layout of the grounds. Asshown on the plan this new exposition islocated on a ninety acre tract of lan;l whiclislopes gently to the north and east from ahigh point near the- water lower area. Th •surrounding area consists of one hundredand thirty acres which will be used whenfunds will permit, cither for fair expansionor for recreation purposes in connection withthe year round use of the fair an:l the cnt i r i 1

area.The approach from the city when one

travels west along Mosque Boulevard showsthe new fair buildings and grounds laid outalong the top of a h'll forty feet higher th mthe cast side of the grounds. Th;1 distanceof some two thousand feet makes th i s avery gradual incline which in turn providesrapid drainage of the grounds and a sight-ly location for the large buildings.

The coliseum being the largest bu i ld ingis given the most prominent location with apark area in front, parking area at the westside, stock barns and rodeo pens at tin-

rear and the main avenue of the fair on thecast side leading from the main entranceto the livestock, agriculture building, in-dustrial exhibits and recreation areas. Theserecreation areas include a permanent amuse-ment park with rides and picnic areas forall year use.

The size of the main avenue is evidentwhen one considers that the measurementof the drives leading from the front entranceto the grandstand and return is just overfive hundred feet almost a mile in length.

The question is asked, "Where is the race-track." Strange to state but there are somefew people in the country who can exist

without having to attend races. It seemsthat the natives of the Waco territory andthat holds good for most of Texas are muchmore interesled in a rodeo than in a raceof any kind. By placing the grandstand onthe main avenue of the fair it is possibleto add a racetrack later if desirable andthe grandstand acts can be presented on thestage.

Ik-sides the Coliseum the other five build-ings to be included in the initial set up ofthe exposition arc in turn, Agriculture,Youth's Activities, and three livestock barns.With this setup the citizens believe that asuccessful fair can be staged at a specifictime allowing a year round use to Ix- madeof the entire area. The zoned areas of thefair are easily recognized as agriculture,youths activities, livestock, industry andmachinery and the recreation areas of theamusement park, grandstand and carnivalarea with two entrances from the main av-enue into the carnival unit.

The main entrance to the fair is locatedso that it can be used for both the fair andalso for the coliseum when the fair is notin operation. A fence enclosing the coli-seum, future auditorium space and a portionof the parking area to the cast makes anadmirable set up for eiv'c use throughout th •

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year. This unit would provide lor llu- pro-tection of the other lair buildings duringthe portion of the year when the coliseumand auditorium are being used lor c iv i cpurposes.

The parking area and the service road arta vital part of the modern fair . The serviceroad is essential in order to provide serviceto the rear of all the buildings and to pro-vide access to and egress from all of t inparts of the fair without having to passthrough any of the congested areas duringthe fairs operation.

The parking areas set up is almost ideal.Fair patrons approach the entrances and en-ter the parking zone through auto lanesplanned to handle 1500 cars an hour. Uponparking the car in zones areas ami w i t hsections marked and lighted at night, th •patron moves toward the fair buildingsconfident that his car will be protected andthat he can return to it wi thou t diff icul ty.From where it is parked th:1 patron canleave the grounds and move upon the boule-vard without having to pass through anycongested traffic lanes. The entire east sideof the grounds will be \ised for parking areaas far north as it is necessary to park cars.A smaller parking area is located just \\cslof the coliseum for continual coliseum pa-tron use and just to the south of this is asmaller area for official cars which can en-ter and leave the fair by means of a sidero-ad.

The additional convenience at the en-trance is that for a bus and taxi terminalwhich can be used at all times of the yearas well as during the fair operation. Thisprovides not only ample space for unload-ing and loading passengers but also pro-vides lor taxi parking within the loop drive.Only taxi drivers and the public who usethis facility can appreciate how desirabl •this arrangement is of having taxies andbuses ready for call at all times besides giv-ing them the opportunity of off street park-ing and unloading as well as loading priv-ileges.

Thus we have laid before us a completeplan for a modern fair, buildings, drives,recreation areas, entrances and parking fa-cilities.

Here the basic principles of the MasterPlan have been established and from tim;to time adjustments will be made to meetchanging conditions but unless some un-forseen decided changes create the need ofexpansion of added facilities and new build-ings this plan will stand as a 1951 "Ex-position of the Year," plan of a modernfair for some time to come.

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AGAINST TELEVISIONBy FRANCIS GEORGE

When a producer agrees to allow tele-casting of his shnw, he has not given awayall of his rights. He can, in some eases,stop a public viewing of the show. Thatis, if someone sets up a large television s:vtand tries to sell tickets to watch the showby television, the producer can get a courtinjunction to prevent it. This has happenedat least four times already, and there isevery indication that judges plan to protectshowmen as much as possible here.

The first case came up in Massachusettsin 1948 when a union rented a ballroomand sold tickets for fifty cents to watch aboxing match. The promoters, th:1 Twen-tieth Century Sporting Club, thought thismight hurt their business and got an injunc-tion. The judge decided that when the pro-moter sold the television rights, be intendedto sell them to private owners of sets andnot to allow rival public exhibitions. I leclosed down the ballroom for that night andforbade the sale of tickets. The same thinghas happened in Xew York and Pennsyl-vania.

There has been some talk that the pro-ducer has the right to restrict the reproduc-tion of his show in bars as well as theaters,halls and ballrooms. The idea is that noone should profit from a show for whichhe has done nothing. When the producersells the television rights, he is selling themat retail, the same as a radio broadcast.Selling admission tickets to watch a tele-vision set not only lets sonu'one get some-thing for nothing, but it may hurt the pro-ducer directly, as the television showingcan sell a better seat for a great deal lessmoney. All these reasons apply to tele-vision sets in bars. The bar gets a floorshow this way without paying for it. Itcan charge more for its drinks or sell moreof them, and it is stealing customers fromthe original show. It is getting a Iree rideand stealing someone else's profit, and no-body, except the bars and their customers.likes it. In Philadelphia bars with televi-sion sets have to get motion picture licenses,and this is the only practical way so farfound to control them. It is impossible tosell each bar the right to resell a particularshow; where license fees arc high enoughand licensing board policies strict enough,this device can be a real protection.

The buying and selling of television rights

tu any production is st i l l in the guessworkstag1 Nol>ody really knows what they arewcri.li or for sure what he is selling. Thefew court decisions say first that you don'tsell the right to make any commercial useof the telecasting in an ordinary contract.Broadcasting and television rights are separ-ate; when you sell one, the other does notautomatically go along, although motionpicture rights include television rights. IIyou have the broadcast right for an event,under a long term contract, the televisionrights can be sold separately, but nei therthe producer nor the theater owner cando it alone. As an ordinary theater leasedoes not include the right to televise, theproducer can't sell wi thout the owner, andthe producer owns the right to see th:1 show,so the owner can't sell without the producer.In other words, they have to bargain, or f lu-producer can arrange to buy the whole thingat the beginning.

The best rule with television rights isto take nothing for granted, hut get into theoriginal contract exactly who can do whatwith television; these rights are valuablenun can be protected!

NO FREE DUCATS FORSERVICEMEN

A nat ional maga/inc de-voted to showwoild coverage recently carried a noticeth i t mam fairs were planning to compli-ment men in uniform with free admissionsor lav exempt admission tickets.

We have been officially advised by Mar-tin I. Tiirney, Chief of Wage and ExciseTax Division of the Treasury Departmentoffice in San Francisco, "that the formerprivileges with respect to taxes allowed ser-vice men during the last war were repealedby the Revenue Act of 1947. However, wehave requested that the Bureau of InternalRevenue in Washington advise1 this officeas to action taken to restore these privi-leges."

At present time it is inadvisable for fairswho charge gate admissions to extend pass-es to servicemen in uniform, unless suchservicemen are on duty, or are entitled toworkers' permits because they have a busi-ness function with the fair's program.

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The Pantomine and The CircusBy HUGO ZEITER

Pantomines andcircuses have manythings in common.One realizes thisparticularly at Xiuastime in reading aLondon newspaperwhich describes the

offerings of the entertainment world at tha ilime.

Pantomines and circuses share the spot-light on the same pages in their lavisl. de-scriptions of the ideal happy holiday atmos-phere created by a visit to a paiitomine orcircus.

In London, the famous Bertram Mills Cir-cus at Olympia and the Harringgay Circusat the Harringgay Arena right outside ofLondon have become the mecca ot circustans who make 'their annual palgrirnrnageto the halls of the sawdust ring.

Circuses are publicized equally as muchas the traditional pantomines which are pre-sented at such old music halls and stagetheatres as the Scala, which this war pre-sented Peter Pan or the Empire Pool atWembley which presented Dick Whitting-ton, a pantomine on ice, or Mother Gooseat the Princess Theatre and Robinson Cru-soe at St. James's Theatre.

Every fall, the old stage properties andcostumes for these pantomines are broughtout and re-furbished and old scenery i., re-painted so that a new production of the oldpantomine is presented with the same oldcharacters in a new setting and a new castof performers.

Goody Two Shoes; Beauty and the Beast;Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp and Cin-derella all come to life to carry off theyoungsters of all ages to the mysteriousnever never land of enchantment and magic.

The circus has even more thrills and var-iety to offer in the new of new artists andattractions from two continents, for it is atChristmas time that the performers from thebig continental circuses carry their animalsand paraphernalia across the channel andthe outstanding performers of America acrossthe pond to participale in the various indoorcircuses of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia op-erated by the two Mills Brothers Cyril andBarnard, usually runs its winter season fromDecember 19th to February 1st. The Lon-don Times gave an eloquent description ofthe Mills 1950 opening performance in thefollowing distinctive circus press fashion:"The performance this year has the smoothunity which pleases the experts lx-causc theyknow how difficult it is to achieve. Eventfollows event with seemingly effortless ease,as though belonging to the same brightlycolored display, and the very innocent maycarry 'away the impression that in a verygood circus there has been nothing of out-standing merit. Yet it is less easy than itlooks for a ballerina to stand on a galloping

horse juggling with silver balls while shebalances at the end of a stick a glass ofwater which does not spill. This feat MissMargot Edwards brings off with an air olcareless grace. The Freedonas are jugglerswho. though they use human Ix-ings insteadof Indian clubs, are extremely neat andworkmanlike; and the Schaller Brothers dothe same sort of thing, with the trampolineto help them make streamlined comedy ofit. Cleverness is to be found wherever youlook closely enough to perceive it beneaththe smooth efficiency of the whole perfor-mance.

"The animals contribute their share. Shet-land ponies do all that is asked ol them, andseem to enjoy their own display, and thejockey dogs do even more and put up aneven more persuasive show of enjoyment.Arab steeds with dummy Beduin in thesaddle obey every gesture of the ringmaster.and Fischer's elephants whether walkingon a line of smallish wooden bottles or shav-ing the luckless human 'stooge.' give animpression of the wisdom that comes onlywith age. an impression which their turneddown ears probably confirms. Only thelions seem to lx> there to uphold a circustradition rather than to do anything in par-ticular. Trick cyclists, trapeze, acrobats onladders and on the triple bar, and, of course.the clowns, round off an entertainment whichhas something of particular interest for ev-erybody who likes a circus."

The Harringay Circus is also describedin words which would baffle Daniel Web-ster. The Daily Telegraph printed the fol-lowing article, but did not mention the Ho-rnan chariot race in which one driver wasfatally injured during a rehearsal. "Thecircus," says the article, "is by definition thequintessence of the improbable." Tom Ar-nold's Circus, which opened at Harringaylast night is the quintessence of the im-possible.

"Edith Crockers Teddy Bears ride bi-cycles, 6 ft. high bicycles, motor-bicycles;Chipperfield's elephants, gravely avuncularto amuse the children, parade around witha woman mahout in the month of one ofthem; Oscar Konyot cheerfully turns hisback on his lions.

"Bert Holt juggles with hands and feetwhile hanging by his teeth from a singlewire; and the three sisters Roggs toe-danceon large spheres and proper them up andthen down an elaborate switchback. Leonde Rosseau somersaults to the ground froma platform 50 ft. above the arena, and ifthat does not give you jim-jams enough.there is an exquisite aerial ballet performedby the Five Varias.

AH circuses are colorful, but Mr. Arnoldhas called to his aid all his musical comedyexperience to embellish the sheer naked skillof tile ring with show girls who changedtheir costumes between every turn.

"The show runs for three hours and a

hal', plus a quarter of an hour intermission—what a party!"

Other circuses which should be mentionedinclude the K e l v i n Hall Circus at Glasgow,Ireland; the Prince's Royal InternationalCircus at the \\averly Market. Edinburgh:and the Liverpool Stadium International Cir-cus which presented from Cirque d 1 liver.Paris—Jackie Rex, the modern Tarzan andhis sensational group of lions. Also Boug-lione Freres liberty horses presented byMarquie; and SherriH with the mighty polarbear group and thrill ing tiger act.

The 22nd Christmas programme present-ed at Belle Vuc included Krone's jungletigers and the Lord George- Sanger horsesas well as the usual circus fare of clowns,etc.

Birmingham had the British and Contin-ental Circus at Bingley Hall presented byStanley V. Parkins and ring mastered InFrank Foster with a well-rounded circuspjvv'ram including Fossctt's tigers and manyotin-r acts.

The llth annual Xmas circus at Belfast,the Royal Hippodrome circus was presentedby G. L. Birch with plenty of var ie ty in-cluding the famous Franz Trubka and hisfive Abyssinian Lions. Duffy's elephant anddonkeys, also Emily Paulo's ponies.

As you will note, each circus has its ownproprietor and individuality, and is largelyinfluenced by the tastes and needs of thelocal community'. This is particularly trueof the South-end on Sea Kursaal PleasureGardens which produced its 1st Christmasseason circus in a circular building whichformerly served as a roller skating rink andhas housed a carnival ride in the past nowtook on the appearance of a first class cir-cus which presented two lion acts, Chipper-fields dogs, sea lions, the Jeserieh elephant,ponies, and many other outstanding circusacts of merit.

Whether it is a ballerina in a circus, ad-mired and popular as an attraction even inthe days of Astley, or Cinderella in one other unforgettable scenes where she racesdownstairs to meet the Grand Duke; "butas the Grand Duke stoops to put the slipperon her foot the Stepmother trips him and theslipper shatters on the floor." The fact re-mains that you can change the props toconform to modern times, but you cannotchange the ingredients of the performancewhich appeals to the hearts of all mankind.We love the same sort of thing our grand-parents loved. What matters is the wayit is presented, and that requires genuiiv--publicity and showmanship!

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