AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED ENGAGEMENTS

KAYEHOLLYWOOD ELEPHANTS

ContactPAUL V. KAYE

Suite 519 • 1680 North Vine Street • Hollywood. California • 90028Area Code 213 • 462-6001 '

Page?

Show ReportROYAL HANNEFORD CIRCUS

For the first time, the family acts of both Tom-my and George Hanneford have been combinedfora presentation of the Royal Hanneford Cir-cus. The big show is currently playing for theSyrian Shrine Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio (May2-11), which is Tommy's third year as producerof the Syrian Temple Shrine Circus.The circus is being presented under a huge sixpole big top, offering five rings of acts. The topwas rented from Harold Barnes' Florida TentRental Co.The program includes three specs - Alice in Wondertand, Cinderella and a Patriotic Finale. Someof the acts appearing in the circus program are:the Tommy Hanneford circus acts, the GeorgeHanneford circus acts, Don Anderson's horses,the Flying Gaonas and the Flying Valentines,Los Latinos Duo, Miss Tina and Miss Dianne,Gaylord Maynard's comedy horse, the TangierTroupe, Alberto Zoppe's animals, Tajana's wildanimals, the Hanneford and the King elephantsplus a number of other features.

ABOU BEN ABHEN SHRINE CIRCUS

Acts appearing in the April 7-13 Abpu Ben Ab-hen Temple Shrine Circus at Springfield, Mo.,included:

Harry Thomas, tigers; Frank & Estreleta, aerial;The Karinas, trampoline; Bobby's Dogs; TheFreddys, cola bola; Sissy, sword balancing; Da-vid, rola bola; Miss Tina, look walk; the CircusPonies; Hunky Johnson's Bears; Circus Ponies;Jolly and Linda, hand balancing; The Grimaldis,novelty; Francero, trapeze; the Cavanaugh Duo,cradle; Carmen del Molina, trapeze; Prof. Snap-pi, comedy piano; LaVonne, cloud swing; Sissyand David, unicycle; Los Argentines, perch; theKursawes, bicycles; Sir Chadwick Chase and hisRoils Rotten; Bimbo, the elephant; Gene Men-dez, high wire.Announcer for the show was Mike Pike, whilethe clowns were Maxo, Sandy and Pockets.

May5, 1980

THE CIRCUS REPORT is published each weekby Don Marcks. 525 Oak St., El Cerrito, Calif.94530 • Phone: 415 - 525-3332.SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $15.00 for a year. TheOverseas Rate via Surfa'-« Mail 1$ $20.00 a year.ADVERTISING RATES: (Per Issue on a firstcome basis): Minimum Ad $5.00; Quarter Page$10.00; Half Page $20.OO; Full Page $35.00

WORLD'S ONLY HI-DIVINGAQUA MULES, OSTRICH

RACES, CLOWN ACTS,MOVIELAND ANIMALS,

WILD WEST ACTSJONNY RIVERS

P. 0. Box 286 Mclntosh, Fla. 32664

Phone: 904 - 591 - 2076 or 591 - 1053

CARSON & BARNES CIRCUS... by Joe M. Heiser. Jr.

Ted Bowman, vice president of Carson & BarnesCircus, greeted circus fans at the April 17th ma-tinee of the show in Houston, Texas.Especially enjoyed by the fans was the typicalcircus music by the Reynolds family and assis-ted by other musicians. They also enjoyed thespectacular elephant display, and a lively varietyof acts by attractive performers.Our group included: "Tex" Dreyfus, who helpedas he has so often in the past, with the elephantdepartment; Mary Hoppe, who recently movedto Baytown with her husband Or. Robert C.Hoppe, staff physician at the huge Exxon refin-ery complex; Harry Lee Kingston, professionalphotography, listed in the official program book;Bill Henderson, my partner on many circus ram-bles and your reporter, who still recalls impress-ions of his first circus adventure in the year of1903.

April 22 • Mama Hanneford broke an arm whenshe slipped and felt in her trailer, at a New Yoikengagement. After the cast was placed on thearm she had a seamstress make up special sleev-ed garments so she could continue to appear inthe ring with the Hanneford Riding Act.

Joseph C. ReisingerATTORNEY AT LAW

Entertainment Law - Civil Trials - Immigration

For Free Consultation or AppointmentCall: 415 - 4 7 2 - 1050

The Original Car Thrill ActR O S I N I

H A V E SOME OPEN TIME IN AUGUST and SEPTEMBER

Contact: ROCKET CAR2611 Eisenhouer San Antonio, Texas - 78209

PEOPLE NOTES... by Harry L. Graham

HUGO ZUNIGA, who with his brother Manuel, does a rola bola act and a juggling act thisseason with Circus Vargas, has recently com-pleted the writing of a novel about the circus.He is now looking for a publisher.

RUSSELL "Russ" MANNING, Star Wars car-toon strip artist and for 14 years the writer andcartoonist for the "Tar/an" funnies, has flippedhis hat into the political ring and is running for3rd District Supervisor in Orange County, Calif.In addition to his art work, Manning has pre-viously served his community as chief of thevolunteer fire dept., water district president

and planning committee chairman.

JACK KELLY, best known for his role as BartMaverick in the popular TV series of the late1950's and 1960's "Maverick" is another of thecelebrities getting into politics. The 52 year oldmovie and TV star was elected to the city coun-cil of Huntington Beach, Calif. He said he gotinto politics because he has been upset with thelack of efficiency in the operation of city gover-nment and he hopes to rectify that.

LORNE GREENE has been named Grand Mar-shall for the annual New Year's Day Rose BowlParade in Pasadena, Calif.

Page 4 May 5, 1980

Show DatesBeatty-Cole Circus

May 5-7 Charlottesville, Va.8-11 Richmond

Canon & Barnes CircusMay 5 McAlester, Okla.

6 Okmulgee7 Bartlesville8 Coffeyville, Kans.9 Parsons

10 Chanute

Hubert Castle CircusMay 5-11 Winnipeg, Manit.

5 North Battleford7 Yorkton, Sask.

9-11 Saskatoon

Circus Arts TroupeMay 7-10 Wheaton, Md.

Fiesta de CircoMay 5Camarillo, Calif.

6 Palm dale7 Indio8 Brawley9 El Centro

lOSomerton, Ariz.

Great Youth CircusMay 9-11 Redlands. Calif.

Hamid-Morton CircusMay 8-11 Springfield, Mass.

Hoxie Bros. CircusMay 5 Statesboro, Ga.

SBeaufort.SC7 Georgetown8 Sumter9 Marion

10 Myrtle Beach

Hubler Int'l CircusMay 9-11 Cedar Rapids, Iowa

McCary's Shrine CircusMay 8-11 Presque Isle, Me.

Ringlging-Barnum - Blue Unitto June 1 New York, NY

Ringling-Bamum • Red UnitMay 7-11 Providence, R.I.

Royal Lichtenstem CircusMay 5-6 Cincinnati, Ohio

7 Iowa City, Iowa8 Des Momes9 Council Bluffs

-10 Lincoln, Nebr.

• • • -MAGIC • • • -

David Ginn LecturerMay 5 Morgantown, W.Va

6 Oshkosh, Wsc.7 Decatur. III.8 Indianapolis, Ind.

9-10 Chicago, III.

Stu Miller's Magic Time USAMay 5 Norwalk, Mass.

6 Bedford, NY10 Mystic, Conn.

Babes In ToylandMay 6-11 St. Louis, Mo.

The BisbinisMay 9-11 Des Moines, Iowa

Billy Burr's Fun-0-RamaMay 5-10 Manchester, NH

Bryons Clowns. Inc.May 10 New Bedford, Pa.

Harlansburg

Dondi, the ElephantMay 6-10 Greenville, Miss,

James H. Drew ExpositionMay 5-10 Mt. Airy, NC

Gutis Family - Jungle ParodyMay 8-11 Presque Isle, Me.

Ice FolliesMay 7-11 San Fran, Calif.

j Kaye Hollywood Elephantsto May 17 H. Castle Circus

Old Time VaudevilleMay 6 San Jose, Calif.

Rolling Diamonds - SkatersMay 8-11 Presque Isle, Me.

Tommy Scon's Medicine ShowMay 5 Muleshoe, Texas

6 Hereford7 Pampa8 Clovis. NM9 Dalhart. Texas

The Sikorskys - JugglersMay 9-10 Baltimore. Md.

Harry Thomas- TigersMay 9-11 Des Moines, Iowa

White House in Miniatureto May 10 St. Louis. Mo.

The Circus Report Page 4- A

OSMAN SHRINE CIRCUS • Produced by Gar-den Bros. Circus at St. Paul, Minn. Apr. 8-13.Spec "Razzle Dazzle"; Lilli-Ana, leopards; theWinn Bros, inclined wire walk; Smiley Dailey.clown bike; Michael & Co.. and the Androme-das, balancing; Clowns; Gee Gee's ponies; IanGarden, Jr., ponies; Web number featuringJo Ann Jennier on single trapeze; Princess Tan-ya, clowns; The Flying Lanes; Intermission;Toyland production number; the Pirates of theSky; Cimses' dogs; Morton's Bears; The ColdNose Five dog act; Clowns; The Cyclonians; theBruskis; Joanna Hall; Gee Gee's elephants andthe Astros, aerial.

MIDIAN TEMPLE SHRINE CIRCUS • Produc-ed by Kaye Entertainment Enterprises at Wich-ita, Kansas- April 17-20.Pre-show clown warm-up; Spec, "Circus onParade"; Aerial display with Carol on trapeze,Patty on loops, Rose Ann on trapeze and loraon loops; the Hawthorn wild animals; Clowns;The Dolly Sisters, aerial cradle; O'Oonnells,wire; Little John, balancing; the Wayne Trio,acrobatic; Cook's Comedy Car; Moore's Mon-grel Revue; Clowns; Anderson's Liberty Hor-ses; the Hofmeister Liberty Horses; Aerial Bal-let featuring Lorelei on trapeze; My-lmmbas Af-rican Baboons; Clowns; Johnny Luxem with tinWheel of Destiny; Intermission;The Flying Russells; Clowns; the Hawthorn Circus Elephants;Valentino, high wire; The Wainwrights, trampo-line; The Navarros, cycles; The Neils, trampo-line; the Four Nerveless Nocks, sway poles; Fi-nale "Salute to the Stars and Stripes."The ringmaster was Paul V. Kaye and the clowncontingent consisted of: Neil Kay. Bruce War-ner, Steve Lucas and Fred Lavine.

March 30 • Lakeland, Fla • Carla Wallenda Guz-man, escaped serious injuries when a rigging boltsnapped and dropped her to the ground at theend of her slide for life presentation. She wasdropped about 20 feet and landed on her backand side.She slides down the inclined wire while suspend-ed by an ankle. Several ropes helped to breakher fall, acting as a brake.

RAY6RETHOUR, artist and painter who livesin Yucaipa, Calif., is the man who did all of thecolorful art work on Big John Strong's "Fiestade Circo" this year. He was also the man whopainted the show for the past two seasons, andhis work includes paintings of performers andfamous clowns which are prominent on the bigshow trucks.

ROGER BO YD, Jr., and family, spent a fewdays at the Glenwood Mobile Home Park inTampa, while visiting the Diaz Family beforestarting his tourwith Hoxie Bros. Circirs.

THE VALENCIANOS attended a performanceof the 15th annual Egypt Temple Shrine Circusproduced by Carden-Johnson.

REDSKELTONr as pictured with one of hispaintings in the "Star" magazine under the cap-tion "Red Skelton, King of Clowns, is also a dis-tinguished painter of clowns and an apostle ofgood causes."

JOE "Jo-Jo" VINEYARD and EDDIE "Crash"KAHAN, members of the Texas Mid-citiesClown Alley No. 85, and many of the HeltaTemple Shrine Clowns, along with the KuntzBrothers (Gar ry ! and Frank) worked the "Springthing"- home and lifestyle fair sponsored byWFAA Radio at Dallas, Texas, on the state fairgrounds.

Students$2.25

9>

*' Adults$3.25

1980 — 42*: ANNUAL

MAY 9, 10,11,16, 177:30 p.m. 9,10, 16, 173:00 p.m. 111:00 p.m. 10,17

25c Discount on Tickets Purchased Before First Performance

Reservations and Performances at the Redlands YMCA500 E. Citrus

BEFORE I CROP UPin the Mailbagagain,se-veral mistakes appeared in my April 14th Col-umn, which were my own fault. One, when I re-ferred to JOHNNY ZOPPE I Meant JOHN ZOPPE, Sr. Two: The rhesus monkeys and afghandog acts will not appear at Cape Cod (unfort-unately) as these negotiations apparently did notjell but certainly these two great acts WILL ap-pear with Circus Odyssey in the future. Three:I appear at the St. Louis Shrine and not the Po-lice Circus which having played the now defunctPolice date for the late AL DOBRITCH I alwaysconfuse, especially when I have to get a columnoff in a hurry and, lately, that seems to be thecase.

In an earlier column I already retracted the bitabout CV's not doing the Gay Night in L.A. asthey did last year. About the kids' tickets, I waspassed along erroneous information from sone-one on the West Coast who'd been visiting Var-gas and who had gotten that impression. Sorry.

LA.'s HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST BET-TY ESC A L A N T E is just getting over the flu bugand writes that she has been tired and listlessand suffering from too much tretacyclines (hopethat's spelled right as I copied from the le t te r ) .That column devoted entirely to her letter tome has elicited mucho phone calls and tettersto which she adds. "Thanks a lot for bringingold friends together." You're welcome dearheart.

CLOSEUPS: Showgirl SHARON WARD wasforced to leave the Ringling unit owning to badhealth. Get well soon, Sharon.. .BETTY ESCALANTE and entourage went to the Variety ArtsClub in LA. where SHIRLEY CARROLL wasdonating Norman's circus collection. In the lob-by were clowns handing out candy floss andpopcorn from a circus wagon; in the bar down-stairs was free champagne. In attendance amongthe many was BOBBY KAYE, also JO JO MON-ARCH a gal with whom Betty worked on the oldCole show... ROMAN and JEAN SCHMITT willmake the Western tour for BILL KAY .. .HO-WARD SUESZ writes that he is taking life easyin Hariingen, Texas. ..KAY ROSAI RE, after los-ing her lions last season, bought the late ELOISEBERCHTOLD's cat act and now, after havingher baby, is back in action and playing dates...GEORGE HUBLER has acquired new equip-ment in which to transport his circus - several

new pieces of rolling stock, in fact.JOHN HERRIOTT writes he spent six months

with Atayde, some of that time on the road withthe tent show which he says is well-organized.In winter quarters he routined two elephant actsone for the tent show, one for the Arena production, plus a camel act and an eight palomino li-berty horse drill. Johnny presented the horseand elephant acts in the Arena Mexico and waspleased to receive the Manuel Del A Rosa Medalfor the best Animal Act of 1980, given for thehorses, during a lavish ceremony. Award for theBest Aerial Act went to the WALLENOAS.Meanwhile MARY RUTH trained a new dog actof giant poodles which debuted recently withthe CORONAS. She spent a month with John-ny during the Holidays in Mexico where BOBBYand ROSA GIBBS were her guides on a tour ofthe smaller circuses (tent shows) and where theypointed out the major sights of the city. They al-so did the night club scenes with A L E K andRUTH SEBESTYN, JIMMY and EVY FOSSETTVisitors included BILL HILL, HERBIE WEBER,MARCELLA, BIG JOHN STRONG and DOREYMILLER.In his lengthy letter JOHNNY reports that

CINDY and HEIDI are with the Royal Hanne-ford Circus working in the riding act, also doingproduction and Johnny visited his daughtersduring the Detroit date enroute to his own ap-pearance at the Aut Mori Grotto Circus in Youngstown. He and Mary Ruth and daughter Weinerplayed St. Pete and Tampa for Garden-Johnsonwith three rings of high school horses, MaryRuth's dog act, and Werner's new juggling act.The same combination played the West Orangedate for Coronas where Johnny was also ringmaster. Prior to the West Orange date the Herriottsappeared on the grounds of the Smithsonian inDC, along with BOBBY KAYE, LOU JACOBS,the National Marine Band, all portraying the"Americana" of the American Circus and weregreatly pleased by the honor. Right after theWest Orange date they trekked to Baraboo forthe summer season, joining ADA SMEIJA andclown JIMMY WILLIAMS. Johnny postscriptshe is looking forward to his old stompinggrounds and "Dombroski V

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Last summer GRA-

(Continued on Page 17)

MACK 1'MlUD ILOTO ( JOES . *06* J9lH AV[ OAKLAND. (A

. . .by LLOYD E.JONES

Once in awhile a book comes along that strikesthis reviewer as being just right. That means ithas humor, is clean, clever and suitable for thecomic, the magician or the MC, who is constantly looking for material and gags. This currentbook is "The M.C.Bit Book" by Algonquin MeDuff (a real name by the way) as told to RhettBryson, Jr. and Dexter Cleveland, and it is sub-titled "Comedy for Magicians."The book is comb spiral plastic bound with asoft board cover. There are 48 pages and it is 554x 8'/3 in. Priced at $5.00, regular postage runs40 c.This book is fully illustrated and offers a lot ofvisual gags using such items as coat hangers, scis-sors, watches, newspaper, etc. Some of the itemshere might even inspire you to come up withyour own specials, and no doubt then? are a lothere that you will never use. But if you want awalk-on bit now and then you'll find usable ma-terial here. In fact one could even work up aroutine with several of these ideas. (CaliforniaSales tax amounts to 30c).Come to think of it, if you want quips, gags,sage sayincp, patter for tricks and assortedlaugh items, dig into your purse and ask for aLaugh Packet. For your $6.00 I'll send four dif-ferent books of chuckles, etc.. post paid. A $10value if you were to buy them separately.Soft bound and guaranteed to be worth yourinvestment. Otherwise send them back (at yourown expense) for a refund.Want the facts on modern thinking about hyp-nosis? Genuine? Fake? Useful? Send a stampedself-addressed envelope and we'll send you acopy of the Reader's Digest article "When Hyp-nosis Casts Its Spell." It's a thoughtful article,from the January issue.

TONY DUKE, former flying trapeze artist andnow an actor, appeared in the April 11 th epi-sode of l V's The Incredible Hulk.

that will bring yoursponsors back againIndividual Dates * * '

available bNationwide Pflillff1 Morris

rantasy

TOURING

14thannualtour

GREATER AMERICANENTERTAINMENTPflDD 77 COCONUT AVE.»*»*^~"

77 COCONUT AVE.SARASOTA, FLORIDA 33577

Phone (81 3) 365-3336

WILLIAM I ENGLISH, PRES.

CONGRATULATIONSTOMMY H A N N E F O R D , P R O D U C E R

FOR

A S U P E R P R O D U C T I O N

OF THE

MOSLEM S H R I N E C I R C U S

D E T R O I T , M A R C H 1 4 - 3 0

Saw my first one in 1933,and this was the best!

Dale A. RikerFlint, Michigan

PageS

Show ReportEMMETT KELLY, JR. CIRCUS

The program for the Emmet! Kelly, Jr. Circusat Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., on Apr.11th lists the following program schedule.Overture; Benson's Tigers (Frank Magarosi);Marcella & Janice, slack wire; Emmett and AreYou Ready for More?; Grade Hanneford, dogs;Emmett and the Hankie; The Pan-Terras, hang-ing perch; Emmett and standing on hands; TheRo-Lon-Oos, juggling; Emmett and rope; Sabo'sChimps; Intermission; Mr. Twink, web; Emmettand Magic; Charles Merrill, magician; The ArLease, unicycles; Thank the Band; The GreatErik, high wire; Emmett and Nancy say theirGoodbys.Nancy Kelly was the show's ringmistress, withJulie Evans providing the music, and Erick hand-ling props.

HUBERT CASTLE CIRCUS

The program for the Hubert Castle Circus pres-

May5.1980

entations at Columbus, Ohio. Apr. 10-19 liststhe following schedule.Circus Iverture; The Rodriguez Troupe, aerialbars; Tar/an Zerbini, lions and tigers; Clownswith Atom Smasher; Aerial display with fourwebs, plus the Robertos, cradle, Sherri-BraunDuo, cradle, The Giminis, cradle; The Torinos,juggling; The Gasperrys, comedy table; TheKolmedys, acrobats; Clowns, driving a stake;the Horwath Chimps; Amazing Alain, sword bal-ance on wire; The Elkardis, hair hang; Olmeda'sSpanish Horse Revue; Plunkett Family, trampo-line; Let Blocks, high wire; Intermission.In the second half were: The Dieklas Sisters, rol-ling globes; Clowns and The Strong Man; Bar-bara Tata's elephants (5); Diano's elephants (6);the Hollywood elephants (3); Elephant longmount on the track; Enrique Olmedas, bicycles;The Antonios, bicycles; Christopher James, lowwire; The Great Bruno, swaypole; Capt, Circus,Space Rocket Shot; Disco Finale.The show was produced by Hubert Castle andTarzan Zerbini. Jon Friday was the ringmasterand Gregory Toca was the musical director

The Circus Report Page 9

TOM CANTY, popular performer in the SanFrancisco, Calif., area, died early this monthafter a long illness. He was known as "Cantinithe Magician" and was active in local clubs aswell as professional work. Survivors include hiswife, Peggy, and a son and daughter.

The government of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)has established an orphanage for motherless ba-by elephants as they work to preserve that na-tion's dwindling herd of elephants.

On The CoverThis week's cover picture is another work by ar-tist Robert 6. Johnson. It is done in water colorsand shows an early morning unloading scene atthe railroad yards.

TOM and DIANE SIKORSKY are the proud parents of a baby girl - Jennifer Robyn • who wasborn on Jan. 7th and weighed in at 6 Ibs. 2 oz.Both Tom and Diane had traveled with CircusKirk, and Tom, a member of the Juggling Sikor-sky act, now serves as booking and sales mana-ger for the family-owned corporation, TALWorld-Wide Productions, Inc.

Page 1 2 MdV5. 1980

ALADDIN TEMPLE SHRINE CIRCUS... by Don Sandman

The 30th annual Aladdin Temple Shrine Circuswas presented April 10-19. at the Ohio StateFairgrounds in Columbus. The show was pro-duced and staged by Hubert Castle and TarzanZerbini. Jon Friday was the ringmaster, withGreg Toca, band leader; Rick Alorich, supt. ofprops; Jerry Staiger, clown director and J. Al-bert Smith, electrician.Clown Alley was led by Al Ross, to whom the1980 Aladdin Temple Shrine Circus was dedicated for his 50th anniversary in show business.He started with Robbins Bros. Circus at New-ton, Iowa, in 1930.

LOUIS KRETSCHMER.of Belleville, III., an ar-dent circus fan and collector, died at his homeon April 25th, after a brief illness. He helped tobook and promote circuses in the midwest area.

EVERYONE READS

THE CIRCUS REPORT

Thank YouTHANK YOU Bill Hooper

and members of the Ed

Mil let teTent No. 5 (CFA)

for your continuous help,

hospitality and support.

Your Friends,

The

TNT & Royal Olympic Circus

CIRCUS QUIPS...by KARLJ. BISCHOFF

TRAGEDY in the MENAGERIE ... lion andTWO lion TRAINERS.. . lion and ONE lionTRAINER. . . lion.

IN SHOW BUSINESS it's known that daughterslike fathers WHO CAN'T NO and fathers tikedaughters who can.

FOR SOME SHOWS figuring out the route forthe next date sometimes finds the shortest dis-tance between towns is ALWAYS UNDERCONSTRUCTION.

SOME SHOWMEN have pocket calculators, poc-ket recorders, pocket pens. EVERYTHING FORHIS POCKET BUT MONEY.

A SHOWMAN'S WIDOW placed a tombstone ather husband's grave bearing this sentiment "WITHOUT YOU I CANNOT BEAR TO LIVE'. Oneyear later she remarried and told the monumentmaker to add one word. So he went back andenisled 'ALONE'.

The Circus Report Page 13

KARIN DAVIS SEZ. . . .

Once again, we left the building this morningand as we were getting ready to go, a performerfrom the show was dumping his holding tank onto the concrete next to the building, after whichhe said, "Oh the water will wash it away."

Most every city today has stringent laws regarding such flagrant disposal of human wastes. It isthis one performer at a date who ruins it so thatnone of us can park at the building in the future.More than likely he won't even be at this partic-ular date next year, so he will not hear the re-percussions of his thoughtless act.

Circus performers on the whole are no betteror no worse than any other groups of peoplebut because of being in the public's eye theyare scrutinized much more. This is why the fewwho have no respect for their total reputationor that of their profession in general, mustwake up to what they are doing, be brought tocare, and become responsible for their actionsas adults.

We all suffer when charges for parking aremade at the buildings because of past yearsmesses and we alt suffer when we have to park

FOR SALE1 HIMALAYAN BLACK BEAR

Very Tame — Leash Broken

2 vi- years old

— Best Offer —

ALSO

4 LARGE CAT SHIFTING

CAGES — Good Condition

- Best Offer -

Phone: 213 • 896 - 0068

ANIMAL TRAINERS UNLIMITED12617 Foothill Blvd.

Sylmar, Calif. -91342

elsewhere and commute to work because ot aperformer's thoughtlessness. Perhaps many per-formers don't realize that when they leave amess, someone must be hired to clean it up.More and more, this charge is passed on to theproducer. Some will absorb this fee, Otherswill not. If not, the performer then finally ab-sorbs this cost. It affects us all no matter ifmost of us are clean or not.The next time you "pull the plug", ask if it is

worth $35.00 a week as Springfield, Mo., charg-ed last year or $10.00 a day as Louisville, Ky.,charged this year!

The following points could be used as a guideline:

1 - Don't dispose of refuse improperly2 - Don't dump holding tanks for any reason3 - Don't leave dog droppings on concrete4 • Don't let your dog run loose5 - Don't damage anything and see that your

children don't either6 - Don't leave a mess in the building7 - Don't leave a mess in the dressing room8 - Don't let your pet run loose in the building9 - Don't let your pet deficate in the building10 - Don't severely discipline animals in sight of

the paying public11 • Don't let your animals become so dirty that

you can smell them before you can seethem

Most important, in this great free countrywhere we all live, together, don't let the exercis-ing of your freedoms, curb the freedoms ofothers.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has ap-proved the merger of the Burlington Northernand the St. Louts-San Francisco Railway Co.,making it the longest railroad in the country.The combined railroad will operate some 30,000miles of tracks in 25 states and two CanadianProvinces. It extends from British Columbia toAlabama and from Manitoba to Texas.

Several circus people, as well as various local cityand county officials have been named in a suitfiled in Morristown, NJ, which claims that cir-cus officials did not have insurance for damagesresulting from the death of a young boy when aleopard attacked him during a performance thereon JuneS, 1979.

Page 14 May 5, 1980

ESiiElllGUNTHER (1EBLL WILL IAMS, of RBBB's RedUnit, recently donated one of his costumes, aswell as a whip/hook to the Smithsonian Institutein Washington, DC.

DAVID L. HAMMARSTROM. author of the up-coming book "Behind The Big Top" reports hispublishers have scheduled the book for a June1st publication date.

TRUDY LUVAS' Poodle Revue was one of themany acts featured with the Shrine Circus at Wa-co, Texas, on April 17-19.

WAYNE FRANZEN, former school teacher andnow owner of his own circus, was mentioned asa Newsmaker in a recent issue of the Ashland,Oregon, newspaper.

DONA KLINE (4604 Everhart Drive, North Can-ton, Ohio 44720) wants to get in touch with herbrother HUBERT W. FULKERSON. He was for-merly an advance man for the Beatty-Cole Circus

FLORINEand WESOLER, OE MILLE,The RUWILLS and ERIK ADAMS visited the Hamid-Morton Circus at Harrisburg, Pa. They are all ontour with Showtime Follies.

MARY CLEMENS visited with BOBBY GIBBSand LARRY GARDEN, of the Garden-Johnson

BETTY WENDANY'SFUNS-A-POPPIN

PACKAC.t SHOWS TO FIT VOUR NEEDS

Box 391, buntjncl. Cal i f . • 91040

213-3b2-2454

Circus in Tulsa, Okla.. and LI LLI-ANA and herLeopards at St. Paul, Minn,, while enroute toher home at Grand Meadows, Minn.

The Beatty-Cole Circus broke all advance salerecords for its recent date at Wilmington, NC.They had to give 8 performances in three daysto accommodate the crowds.

Circus Vargas won lots of publicity for its en-gagement in Long Beach, Calif., where they wereset up alonpide the liner "Queen Mary". Photosof the show with the ship in the backgroundwere popular with news photographers.

WASHINGTON TUBES 11

The Circus Report Page 15

CONTRACTS SIGNED

In a special release to CR, Tommy Hannefordreports he recently met with agent Gil Miller inLos Angeles, and that they then visited withRed Skelton. As a result Skelton has been sign-ed to perform for the Moslem Shrine Temple'sPotentate Ball on May 31st.During his trip to the west coast, Tommy visit-ed with many of the western Shrine Temple Cir-cus Chairmen. They were all very much interest-ed in my proposal, he said, and as a result we aremaking plans to bring the circus to the westcoast in 1981.At the same time, Tommy reported the RoyalHanneford Circus has been resigned for its datein Atlanta, Ga., and will be playing there April10-, 19 of next year.

HOLIDAY HIPPODROME... by Kaye Scheiman

The Holiday Hippodrome show played at Miles,Mich., on April 12th and at Elkhart, Intl., onApr. 13th, presenting one show in the afternoonat each place.This year the circus program is presented by a

WILLIAMSBROS.

CIRCUSWE NEED FOR '80 SEASON - TwoClowns, Booking Agent, Working Men -Show opens May 10th.

WILLIAMS BROS. CIRCUS2635 Norton RoadKent, Ohio-44240

younger generation in circus names. The unit isstill presented by Floyd Bradbury who is bothringmaster and organist. Phil Oler is the show'sdrummerThe program featured: Mario's Mad Hatters (theDrougetts), juggling; the Amazing Mr. Bradburywith illusions including the Guillotine and Tit-Tat-Toe Gir l ; Sharon (Vidbel) and Jackie's bar-king buffoons (dogs); Miss Randa Lynn, footjuggling; Floyd Bradbury, balloon sculptures; Intermission, with balloon pitch.The second half included: Sharon (Vidbel) andJackie's comedy chimps; Mr. Bradbury, the Rabbit Illusion; Miss Christina, ballerina on the tra-peze (Christina Oler); Danny Carey, balancingand The Drougetts, juggling.

By Crane

Page 16

BILL FARMER. CFA of Eaton, Ohio, will havean 8 hone hitch of Percherons pulling the steamcalliope "America" in the July 4th Baraboo cir-cus parade.

DON SANDMAN, BOB MEIFERT and AL CON-OVER, of the John Robinson Ring Circus ModelBuilders, have displays in five Cincinnati loca-tions for the Syran Temple Shrine Circus.

COA OFFICERS

Recently elected officers for the year 1980-81,for Clowns of America, Inc., are:President, Lou Walton; Vice-president,Bil l Oak-ley; Treasurer, John Tabeling; Secretary, MyrtleFolderauer; Sgt.-At-Arms, Bill Nider.Elected to the Board of Directors were: Bill Bai-ley, Kay Brock, Donna McBride, and EdwardReahl.Elected Vice-President at Large were: Betty S.Cash, Arnold S. Firine, John R. Outline, Benja-min F. Jenkins and Charles D. Phelan.

WANTEDCONTRACTING AGENTS

for company representing lead-ing circuses.

Top Pay - Salary - Expenses- Commission.

Can use both part and full timepeople.

You will be representing the fi-nest shows in the country.

Must be able to set phone spon-sored dates.

RAY WINDER

8139570861 or 813955-0729

May 5, 1980

The Carson & Barnes Circus staff, as listed in the1980 program consists of: 0. R. Miller, presidentand director; James Judkins, vice president andsecretary and Ted Bowman, vice president andtreasurer.

James Judkins, manager; Linda Lingo, assistantmanager; Phil Chandler, equestrian director;William Reynolds, musical director; LucianaRosales, aerial director; David Rawls, conces-sion manager; Barbara Fulton, supl. of mainentrance; Manuel King, midway manager; ClemJenkins, supt. of transportation; Geary Byrd,gen. supt.; Donald Carr, menagerie supt; JohnMarrone, Performing Felines supt.; John Walk-er, elephant supt.; Alfonso Loyal, ringstocksupt.; Don Moos, cookhouse; Jackie Moos,purchasing and mail; Dorothy Stone, wardrobeand Rev. Oscar White, chaplain.

MAKE EXTRA MONEYWITH OUR

PITCH MAGICCOLORING BOOK

(10 x 14)

• 4 COLOR COVER• 16 PAGES TO COLOR• 5 MAGIC TRICKS ONTHE BACK COVER

Sells For 75', YourPrice Is Only 22 Each F.O.B.

In Quantities Of 300Send 50' For A Sample Book

PHILIP MORRIS

COSTUMES3108 Monroe Road

Charlotte. N. c. 2820&

EMMETTKEUYJR

The Southern California Assembly #22presents

The 198O International S.A.M. ConventionJuly 9-12, 198O in Pasadena, California

You are cordially invited to S.A.M 's salute to a new decadeof magical artistry . . Featuring:

'Dai Vernon* Chuck Jones

* Joe Cossari*and more international artists!

You will be welcome at:"The Magic Castle

"The S.A.M. Hall of Fame and Museum*The Variety Arts Theatre

* Disneyland, NBC Studios (just to name a few)

This is the Magic Event of the decade . The Entertainment Capitalof the World awaits your arrival in July.

Reserve your place(s) and preferred seating now—here's how:

Send a $5.00 deposit per person with your name and address to:

John R. Engman2617 Whitney Dr.Alhambra, CA 91803

Please make your check payable to: S.A.M. 1980 ConventionBalance due May 15, 1980(S.A.M. member $50.00—include membership number)(non-member $55.00)(spouse $40.00)(children under 14 $35.00)Dealer inquiries: John Fedko, 1311 Flint Dr., Santa Ana, CA 92705

'S.A.M. 1980 . . When your magical dreams come true!1

The Circus Report Page 17

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

CIE MclNTOSH and CHUCK MARINE flewWest to sign the Sioux City, Iowa, date to addto their Omaha and Lincoln Shrine dates for the1981 route. I sat on this item for over a year.Gracie will repeat the Wyandotte, Migh. date inJuly and rumors are she has other new dates onthe fire for 1981.

BEWARE: Many acts have asked me to writethe following: In the East is a man posing as anagent who has conned a number of well-knownacts into quoting him prices, giving him picturesand trying to convince these people to cancelother dates when he dazzles them with fantasticsalaries for non-existent ones. Fortunately, wordis getting round about his man who is NOT anagent, never has been, and is NOT associatedwith the WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY as heclaims. For further information about this bogusagent ask ALBERT and JEANETTE RIX, BILLand TRUDY STRONG, DAVIOE ZOPPE andothers when you run into them. And for thoseacts appearing in the East, PLEASE investigatewhen approached and do not let youselves betaken in. There are many bona-fide agents in theEast but this man is NOT one of them. He ap-pears well-dressed, carries a brief case crammedwith pictures and phoney contracts, and has aconvincing gift of gab.

ITEMIZING: SUSAN SHERYLL's Afghans andthe ZOPPE's crazy Rhesus Monkeys will be withthe Texas Shrine dates; ditto the QUASSARSand CUNEO's White Tigers and Elephants...JEANNIE HALL's baboons made the Amarillodate for Hubler. She goes to Great Adventurein June for the balance of the season.. .GUN-NAR AMANOIS, hop-scotching all around, toldme wife HELEN likes to stay at home and has ahorse she rides for relaxtion.. .ED MIGLEY ma-king frequent business meetings to New YorkCity and plans an important announcement forhis 1981 season soon.. .For the Sarasota FairWES OLER booked in Charley Pride, Ray Ste-

HELEN WILSON - Show Organist(own Equipment) 704-786-4563

vens. Stella Parton, LeGarde Twins, Jim Staf-ford, KC and the Sunshine Band and Paul Len-non. All shows went well.. .Ms APRIL will ap-pear at the Brockton Fair.. .LOU ANN JAC-OBS and PANCHO MAGANA report a bang upfirst season of spot-dating and are already get-tingstrong offers for 1981.

In addition to special effects being used in hiswhip-cracking act PANCHO is planning new onesand LOU ANN is practicing a secret new aerialroutine.. .Someone said they saw NANCY GI-ORDANO in Sarasota.. .Club Owner BILL HAYGOOD flew femme magician PAULA PANDA toFlorida to look over his clubs and is interested inusing her new act in his Atlanta night spot as a"house act".. .DAVIDE, SUSAN, Mr. and Mrs.ZOPPE along with JAMES and MAFALDA,JEAN and ROMAN SCHMITT, OLINKA andTINO were seen at a Chinese Restaurant duringthe Wilkes-Barre date between shows celebratingJohn's 70th birthday.. .And quartering everynight at the local eateries and catching up on «HIthe news after spending two seasons togetherwith SID KELLNER were yours truly, BOBBY,LOU ANN and PANCHO. Sometimes joined byJORGE BARREDA.. .Tino tells me his motherJENNY WALLENDA may go to South Americaas an interpreter for a group of acts.. .CHERYLREED worked in the JAMES ZOPPE riding actin Wilkes-Barre - where James finally used theriding act mat once owned by ORRIN DAVEN-PORT.VISITED "Showtime Follies" where JOE and

GEORGI SMILEY (havingclosed with RON BA-CON's show) were also on tap. Said they werelooking forward to a visit from BOBBY KAYE,Joe's brother. On the show were Iris Keppo andhusband Tony Potter, Erik and Bobbi Adams,

(Continued on Next Page)

ALL T Y P E S OF ACTS

WANTEDC E N T R A L V A L L E Y P R O D U C T I O N S

1009 - 22nd St. Sacramento, Ca. 95816Phone:916-487-6721

- WILL REPLY TO ALL -

FOR SALE60 x 120 ft. tent • Square End, Blue and White

WANTED: BOOKING AGENTS

Call or Write:

FRANZEN BROS. CIRCUSRte. 1 Box 173, Amherst Junction, Wsc 54407

Phone:715-869-3563

Page 18

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

the Ruwills, Debbie and Emil Goetschi, Holveck& Co., and Wes and Florine Oler. Florine is spor-ting a new portable Hammond for which Wes hadingenious cases made; Debbie and Emil are doingtheir new juggling act and doing quite well, and Ihad a chance to see Iris' and Tony's bright newcomedy number. Tony also learned to do rollingglobe and they ooen the show with the act whichfeatures a clever portable incline ramp that turnsinto a teeter-totter. It was a pleasing show overall

Iris showed me her wedding pictures, also pic-tures of her sister Anita's new baby, mentionedthat her brother is all grown up, has a car and ajob, and that her father is now retired.

Later we retired in a group to a nearby PizzaHut to cut up jackpots while the Goetschis, theAdams and the Ruwills went on to catch Ham-id-Morton, where I visited the night before.

NEWS FROM HAMID-MORTON: The ELK-INS SISTERS will retire that version of the actafter this season and continue with the new FA-BULOUS DARNELLS, a clever illusion and dogact. Kurt showed me pictures of the act and itlooks like a sure-fire winner.. That fearless ti-ger trainer WADE BURCK - can you believe -chews bubble gum! The tiger act is great.. ZAMPERLAS arrived after an overnight jum of 700miles, a half hour before showtime to find dau-ghter MAFALDA with husband JAMES waitingto surprise them. James and Mafalda were alrea-dy prepared to work in case they didn't get inon time.. .MIKE C L U C K F R (Earl Michaels) inaddition to announcing the show and singingfor the aerial ballet is doing a plate spinning act.Other performers on the show whom I said aquick hello to are: Alfonso and Lydia Burkett,Frank and Doris Galumbos, Don Young; alsohad a chat with Carol and Bob Atterbury andwith Gunnar Amandis who was in for a quickvisit.

My biggest and happiest surprise was encoun-tering PATSY and JOHNNY JORDAN, on the

May 5,1980

show for two dates with daughter DeLISA'strapeze number. Johnny looks wonderful, evenpracticed yogi-positions with me to show hislegs are moving well again. It was Patsy's birth-day and so we partied until the early hours ofthe ayem. They said the Motordrome Globe willthey think, be suspended in a cable basket andthen guyed out when they go into Circus Circus,but they themselves, are not really sure how therigging will be installed. They are required touse mufflers on the bikes to soften noise andthey will enter from the ceiling onto a platformand into the cage. JODY does his routine first,then JOHNNY comes in with the second bikefor the big wild wind-up. They are also doingthe JORDANA act but from the monorail whichencircles the casino. They open June 1st for sixmonths with options.

Prior to Harrisburg, the Jordans were in Syra-cuse, the scene of Johnny's near-fatal fall lastyear. Apparently the entire city turned out tchonor his courageous comeback and on the lastday the Nurses of &A of Syracuse's Upstate Me-dical Center presented him, in center ring, witha huge and humorous banner they had madethemselves, which proclaimed their love forJohnny Jordan embellished with hand-sewn pic-tures. For over an hour Johnny regaled me withhis antics with those nurses during his long hos-pital stay. And, knowning Johnny's sense of hu-mor, I could visualize the whole thing perfectly.

LAST MINUTE ITEMS: CARLA WALLENDAis okay after her fall from the slide when the pinholding the slide loop crystalized and broke anddropped her to the ground 20 feet from the endof the slide. She's a very lucky girl.. .CAR LAand her troupe played the Hall of Fame for 3weeks.. .TOMMY BAKER is now involved inprofessional theatre and essaying Shakespeareanroles. Also, I hear, played the part of Dracula.the new version created by FRANK LANGELLA

(Continued on Next Page)

The Circus Report Page 19

... from Happy Davis

We enjoyed reading the nice article that Bill Gal-loway wrote about the Buffalo (NY) Shrine Cir-cus.I would like to make one correction if I may. Itnoted that Happy Davis was producing clown.With all respect to Bill, it was Wayne Liika whowas the producing clown.The Shrine had stipulations for that date as tohow many clowns there were to be and GeorgeHubler asked me if I would do him a favor andmake an "appearance" in one number to helphim fit! his "quota" of clowns. I have not clow-ned on a regular basis since the 50's, but I dowork my comedy acts in clown make-up.

OTLtDuring the April 7-13, Springfield, Mo., date, fi-nal arrangements were made and a semi-tractorwas sent to Paul Kelly's old Cole Bros. Circuswinterquarters in Peru, where the Paul Kellyelephants and trailer were picked up, havingbeen purchased by Garden-Johnson Circus.

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

and I'll bet he was magnificent. He has that re-quired tall, dark and handsome look.. .HOXIEBROS, now playing the Southland.. .BILLBRICKLE is the announcer and performancedirector and aerial acts include the Lisner Duo,Freddie White, Valentino Duo and Dana Arm-strong. . .Recent visitors were Mike and JaniceAria, and Buckles Woodcock.. .WIRENGAROjust completed a great new "flash" prop, de-signed by RON HOLIDAY, for that team's Si-berian tiger trick, a new one, set to debut withtheir September opening in Atlantic City.

SHOW STOPPERS: 16yr. old DeLISA JOR-DAN'S trapeze act, exciting ovations at everyperformance on the BILL KAY's Syracuse date,in which she features a free neck hang, swingingankle drops, and a one hock.. .HASH! DUBSKY17, called SIR HARRY JAMES who bought theLOthar-nnn-f inger-act and who is driving all thegirls in the audience out of their minds with hishandsome appearance and urbane style andshowmanship. Everyone says the young man isGREAT!

SEE YOU down the road, luvs.

SEATS AND CANVASLike New used 6 weeks — Stored in dry storage — 20 sectionsseats, bevelled edges, sealed, 5 boards high, 36 in. high at back— Jacks glued and bolted — Holders on back of stringers forside poles.

8 sections 6 ft. x 40 ft. of canvas sidewall wi th net wind holes- P ink and Orange striped w i t h blue scallop tr im — Makes 80ft. wide by 120 ft. deep enclosure — No front end.Junction Boxes — 300 ft. 3 wire copper cable — Many otherextras — 24 ft. folding unusua l r ing curb and pad — A beaut i fu lset-up for fairs or shopping centers.

Entire set-up needs only anchors on the four ends — No stakesneeded for side poles.

- $ 7,500 Firm -

ROBERT MOCK14043 - 24th Avenue SouthSeattle, Wash. -98168

Phone:206-243-2160