9th Year January 21, 1980 N u m b e r 3

Co/tie Bow/ for *8O(Special to The Circus Report from Ron Morris)

Word from Sarasota is that the Hubert Castle International Circus, which opened inSaginaw, Mich., Jan. 11th, for the Elf Khurafeh Shrine Temple, is the most refurbishedmajor indoor show to debut in several years.

"Total outlay has been in excess of three-quarter million dollars," freely admits John'Tarzan1 Zerbini, Producer/General Manager, and now fifty percent co-owner with HubertCastle, of the longest indoor tour outside of the Ringling organization.

Both Castle units wintered and rehearsed at Zerbini's four-acre wild animal compoundon Packinghouse Road in Sarasota.

Zerbini says the Castle units will moveon eight (seven are brand new) Kenworthtractor trailers. An all-new 40 foot, fifthwheel sleeper has been added to accommo-date both showgirls and property personnelVehicles prj painted white and sky blue.

Techincal innovations for 1980 include 3,40 ft. crane bars, weighing 600 Ibs apiece.Built of square tubing by G & G Metals of

Venice, Tarzan anticipates these will elim-inate extra guy lines and other obstructionsand make for faster changes."Each bar carries five web girls," he notes,"plus two trapezes, one hand balancingtrapeze and two cradles. A big advantageis that they can be spotted anywhere inthe building and not just in a straight line."Bars are supported by 50 ft. aluminum

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Show DatesHubert Castle Circus

Jan. 19-27 Flint, Mich.

Circus VargasJan. 21-24 San Diego, Calif.

Cole All Star TV CircusJan. 21 Lockhaven, Pa.

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RingJiny-Barnum - Blue UnitJan. 22-Feb. 4 Miami Beach, Fla.

Ringling-Bamum • Red UnitJan. 24-27 Venice, Fla.

Royal Lichtenstein CircusJan. 22-23 Santa Barbara, Calif.

24 Bakersfield25 Fresno26 Merced27 Palo Alto

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Andre Kole's World of IllusionsJan. 22-23 Edmonton, Canada

24-25 Calgary27 Moscow, Idaho

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In Memoriam -INGE (Peterson) KLUGE (68) retired circus per-former, died early this month at Sarasota, Fla.She toured with circuses throughout the worldand came to the U.S. in 1949 to appear with theRingling-Bamum Circus where she was featuredin the center ring for three years. She also appear-ed with Polack Bros., Tom Packs and a variety ofShrine circuses.Survivors include her husband Ray, with whomshe worked a mixed group of animals.

MAE NOELL dropped a note in mid-Decemberwith information about her new book THE HIS-TORY OF NOELL'SARK GORILLA SHOWwhich is a group effort. The introduction waspenned by CHAPPIE FOX, author EMILY HAHNwrote a "first person" account, MAE NOELL her-self worked on a section, and other parts werewritten by several newspaper journalists. An em-inent artist designed the frontispiece.

EDDY and JUL VENTURA will tour with Gat-ti after they wind up their tour with Royal Han-neford in March. They will then be with Ameri-can Continental for the balance of the season.

AFTER editor DON MARCKS' confrontationwith robbers last year he returned from shoppingone day to discover the rear license plate hadbeen stolen from his car. Guess what? He walkedround to inspect the front and found they hadstolen that one, too.

SNAPSHOTS: GALLA SHAWN, one of theworld's best head-balancing trapeze stars, was inFlorida in Oec. negotiating with TOMMY HAN-NEFORD for dates with his show this season ..GALLA had been in Europe for years and years...BILLY ROOGERS spent a number of weekslast year playing shopping centers with his birdact and running true to form, as he was enroutehome to Florida, a drunken driver (with no in-surance) rammed the back of Billy's Airstream-a ramming to the tune of $5,900 bucks! In De-cember his first batch of macaws were born. Thisin addition to baby cockatoos hatched last Mayon -o f all days- Mother's Day.. .GEE GEE hasbeen camping out at Billy's place (in more waysthan one, says Billy) and is still looking for pro-perty in the Gibtown area. Billy reports thatERIK ADAMS. Sr., is looking chipper since hisprolonged bout last year with ill health.. .STRUPPI HANNEFORD flew to New York in Dec.,for a meeting with ASCAP to iron out any mus-ical wrinkles for their new season. Her mothercame over from Germany to spend Christmaswith Struppi and her other daughter ANNA, alsoin Florida.. .PAUL V. KAYE is again taking acircus to Japan ... ELIANE SLONIN, Hanne-ford showijirl, has recovered from her trapezetumble and is back working.. .Those people whogot Xmas cards from me had better frame them.It's the first time in at least seven years that Imailed any.

ON NOV. 11th. CATHY FLETCHER caught

her first triple in front of an audience at CircusCircus in Reno. BILLY WOODS was the catcher.On Nov. 20th, Cathy along with LIZA HART-ZELL, EVA DUNLEAVY, and catcher Woods(calling themselves the VOLARES) went to Eng-land to represent the USA in the Circus WorldChampionships competition on TV. While inGreat Britain the troupe was scheduled to tapea circus Christmas special.

CLOSEUPS: The ELKINS SISTERS (with theold version of their act, not the new "Darnell"number) will nlay dates with Hamid-Morton. Al-so on the Hamid-Morton lineup are CUNEO's an!mal attractions and JIMMY HALL's bears. I'mtold that Jimmy has a new 'skipping bear' in hisact that is a scene stealer. ..The H E R R I O T T ' s aseveryone must know by now, will be at Baraboothis summer. JOHN closes with Atayde in Feb..LAURA gave birth to a baby boy Nov. 30th. Hisname is Jason Nathaniel Caudill.. .RingmasterJON FRIDAY kicked off his season with Castlein Flint.. .HEIDI and JIM GROGAN dined withSANDY and MICHELE DOBRITCH during theLas Vegas Convention, then went to Hawaii fora vacation (flew also to Maui). In Vegas Jim andHeidi visited with DIANA and JOHN HARTZELL. Diana is in wardrobe at the Tropicana anaJohn is a stagehand at the MGM Grand.. .TheGUTIS spent Christmas with the Grogans in Flor-ida. . .RON KELROY flew to Australia in (ateDec., then on to New Zealand, Japan and Africastopping finally in Europe before coming home.He and DOROTHY WINN will produce the St.Louis Police Circus again this year, also the Rockford (III) date.. .BETTY ESCALANTE flew toSarasota over the Holidays to visit friends, stay-ed with BOBBY JOHNSON, went up to Orlandoto see BARBARA and BUCKLES WOODCOCKand managed to visit with old friends from theCole show days WIN and MARION PARTELLOwho are on tour with the JEAN STAPELTONplay.. .CARMEN HALL cancelled her Europeanjunket at the last minute. Too risky. She wasfearful that her animals would be tied up and af-ter working diligently 6 years to make the actthe outstanding animal novelty it is refused totake the chance and I don't blame her.. .AL AnTONUCCI and APRIL FOSSETT were on trnWest Coast over Thanksgiving visiting Al's sonwho is a columnist for the L.A. Examiner...

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where. These antics include an impressive hind-leg walk, and a spin around the ring on the backof New's bike, featuring the only cycle-ridingcat in the center ring.The lion extravaganza is a highlight of CircusWorld's daily live circus performance, making itsreturn to the theme park after two years of tra-veling with Ringling Bros, and Barnum & BaileyCircus.Bom and raised in rural Tennessee, New's affec-tion for animals stems from experience on hisfamily's farm where he worked planting and pic-king cotton.In his freshman year at the University of Tenne-ssee, he hitch-hiked to Dallas and became a keep-er at the Dallas Zoo. He was then employed at se-veral jungle theme parks in Texas and was thewildlife director at one, where his duties includedleash-breaking animals.Was the novice trainer frightened during nis firstencounter with his new charges?"No, I was more scared the first night I perform-ed at Circus World and there were all those peo-ple out there looking at me. But everything wor-ked, and it was the high point of my life."New admits to having gotten generous advice andsupport from the Ringling Circus' wild animal ex-pert, C l i a r l y Baumann, and he named a lion in ho-nor of the tiger master.New's Nubian lions, in their Circus World act, rollover, perform roaringsit-ups in unison, leap light-ly from one pedestal to another, and embrace af-fectionately their trainer.The big cats have been popular with AmericanAudiences since the importation of the first lioninto Boston in 1716. In those days, wild and ex-otic animals were exhibited in menageries whichtoured the Eastern seaboard. By the 1870's thesesmall travelling shows were standard sources of.entertainment from Maine to Alabama.

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CIRCUS VARGAS by Bob Me Call

Circus Vargas opened its 1980 season with a twoweek run in Arizona. The stands included Mesa,Phoenix and Yuma.The show moved into Mesa, after a one-day standin Merced, Calif. The 700 mile jump in two dayssaw six trucks disabled because of various break-downs.Because the truck carrying the show's small forklifts was disabled, workmen had to manually un-load the center poles and canvas, slowing downset-up operations considerably. But the familarblue tent was up in time for the scheduled even-ing performance.One of the two seat trucks failed to arrive in timefor the first show. The available seats were set upon the front side with about 100 folding chairsplaced along the backside. The ticket wagon didnot appear until just about show time.Several acts did not appear during the Arizonastand, but will join the show shortly after CircusVargas moves into California.Out in front, the show has a moon bounce, con-

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cession wagon, restroom truck, ticket wagon andan animal display.The program includes: Color book pitch; Open-ing Spec; The Knops, double perch; Osmani Sis-ters and Zunigas, juggling; Clowns; Circus Vargassamoyed dogs in rings one and three, with camels,ponies and llamas in the center ring; Miss Chris-tina and Miss Rajean, single trapeze; Liberty hor-ses; Zultanas, high wire; Clowns; Venturas, Ar-mand Duo, Kneisleys. cradle acts; Million DollarCarlos Twins; Intermission with elephant ridesand color book pitch; Flying Lar-Rays, flyingtrapeze; Wayne Regan, with six lions and threetigers; Clowns; Circus Vargas dressage horses,three rings and front track worked by the RexWilliams family; Miss Kathy, trick riding; Rob-ert Hocum, cloud swing; Rolands, rola bola; Ju-lian and Monique, aerial motorcycle; Elephantswith Rex and Eva Williams.Acts still to join the show include The Anastas-inis and the Gonzalves, rola bola; Flying Espan-as, flying trapeze; Henri Wagneur, horse presen-ter; Franconi Duo, double trapeze; Dione Paray,aerial and two rings of aerial ballet.Ticket prices run from $4.50 for grand standseats on the ends to $8.50 for box seats.New in the backyard this year is a pie car. It didnot make the early part of the Arizona run be-cause of mechanical troubles on the jump fromMerced.Workmen who go into the ring this year are wear-ing dark blue jackets with a Circus Vargas emblemand animal handlers during the elephant numberand helping with the elephant rides are wearingtan jackets.

HAL HAVI LAND and his animals will be withthe Hamid-Morton Circus at Hartford, Conn., onFeb. 13-18.

BOB EMERICO, clown-magician, visited relativesin the San Francisco area recently and was also aguest at the Oakland (Calif.) Magic Circle's an-nual dinner and show on Jan. 11th.

GARY HOLVECKwil l return to "Showtime Fol-lies" for the 1980 season where he will do magicand illusions, and also handle the show announce-ments.

DAVID HANSON has his show "The Best of Bur-lesque" at the Landmark Hotel in Las Vegas. Ap-pearing in that show is the comedy team of BOBand NIKKI KENNEY.

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In MemoriamJv

MILLIE BOUTON (77). long-time Wardrobe Mis-tiess on the old Blackstone Magic Show, died onChristmas Day at Centreville, Mich. She was mar-ried to Blackstone's brother, Pete Bouton, andtrouped for 15 years, before retirng to Colon,Mich. She continued to work ice shows and otherattractions playing southeast Michigan. She wasthe aunt of Harry Blackstone, Jr., whoe programcredits list her as "Advisor" for his currently •touring show.

PATW. ROONEY III (70), retired showman,diedNov. 5th at New London, N.H. He made his firststage appearance at the age of 3, attended thePeekskill Military Academy and toured with hisparents for 10 years, then with his father for 8years. After serving in the Army during WorldWar II, he worked nightclubs and theatres andappeared in several TV shows. He and his wifeestablished "The Dog House" at Lake Blaisdell,N.H., and just completed his 32nd season. Hewas a member of AGVA and several other organ-izations. Burial was at Millwoods Cemetery inSutton, N.H.

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PHILand FRANCINE, along with their elephant"Dondi" have been working at shopping centersand for some potitcal rallies in Texas.

RICK LEGG, clown, will be working with JIM-MY DOUGLASS this season in addition to tak-ing out his own magic show. He has already seta Christmas date in Baltimore.

VICTOR GONZALES reportedly had his VicBros. Circus played dates in Texas late last year.He hopes to start a lengthy tour in the spring.

GEORGE "Slim" LEWIS and BUCKEY STEELEwere recent visitors at the circus quarters in Hu-go, Okla.

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ZSMIII!B. H. (Whitey) Black, who has been ConcessionManager for the past two years with Hoxie Bros.Circus, recently purchased the Kelly Bros. Cir-cus, and will tour the show this season.The show will be completely overhauled and re-built. A new big top has been ordered and deli-very will take place in March. The show's titleis to be changed and that announcement will bemade at a later date.According to Black, the show will open in Flor-ida and will play throughout the Eastern UnitedStates. Joe McMahon, who is General Agent forHoxie Bros. Circus wilt book the new circus. PatiAntalek will be the ;how's Performance Director.

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The 110th edition of Ringling Bros, and Barnum& Bailey Circus (Blue Unit) is out and on theroad. I saw the show at the Bayfront Center inSt. Petersburg, Fla., where they filmed the Ring-ling TV Special, which will be aired Feb. 1st at8:30 p.m.The program is as follows: Opening Spec; UrsulaBoucher, polar bears (10); Danuta and The Van-chovi, aerial acts; The Cossack Riders, The Di-mitrovi. The Ivanovi and The Donevi; Clowns;The Flying Farias and The Flying Segreras; theClowrts;The King Charles Troupe; The Richters,elephant act; High Perch, The Korin Troupe, ThePolonia Troupe and The Georgiev Troupe; Char-ivari; Clown Charivari; The Grantcharovi, aerialact; The Main Spec • The Circus Galaxy featur-ing The Zoppes; Intermission; Karoly Donnert,tigers (6); Clowns; Karoly Donnert with twohorseback riding tigers; Clowns; Bareback riding,The Richters, The Slavovi and The Romanovi;Clowns; Teeterboard, The Oblocki, The Kehai-ovi and The Wozniak; Elephant Calypso featur-ing the Axel Gautier Family; Michu, as Super-man; The Guerrero Troupe, high wire; TheGlobe of Death featuring Victor Unas andDouglas MacValley; the Finale Spec.

Several novelty acts have been booked by Si-mone Firmer Enterprises, California theatricalagency specializing in variety acts for televisionappearances airing in February. They include:Charlie Charles & Co., comedy bicycle trio on"AGVA Variety Awards Special"; Senor Wen-CBS, international ventriloquist for RCA com-mercial; Rudy's Dogs, Wayne Ragen, wild ani-mals and the Knops, Polish perch pole act, on"The Dinah Shore Show"; and Johnny Inn,Sweden's clown prince of magic, and Carlton &Co., magic illusions on "Like Magic" an HBOSpecial.

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BLACKSTONE MAGIC SHOWby DANWALDRON

The Music Hall, Detroit, Mich. - Dec. 18-20.

It's always a pleasure to watch a performergrow in stature season by season. Current tourof Harry Blackstone, Jr., his second with a fullevening production, reveals the show to havemellowed and matured over the past year. Pac-ing is better, mood pleasanter, magic sharperand overall tone assured and confident.Blackstone himself comes across relaxed andfriendly. Gone are the barbs which may havebeen needed to keep club-type audiences undercontrol but which gave essentially family-orien-ted presentation a needless astringency a yearago. Now audience control is just as powerful,but delightful, entertaining and seemingly ef-fortless. Handling of every situation is masterful- even when las in one Detroit performance) twolads planted themselves onstage for the Boy-and-Rabbit trick instead of the requisite one.Show vibrates with good humor, bright costum-ing, equipment and action. Smart-moving dancenumbers accent its vitality. The cast is a pleas-ure to watch and Harry's voice surely is destinedto become one of the legendary motifs of late20th Century magic. It, too, seems showhowwarmer, more expressive this season. There's alive orchestra led by veteran Milton Setzer, Sav-vy selection of contemporary tunes in rich, thea-trical orchestrations, adds depth to production.Show opens with Vanishing Birdcage done intraditional Blackstone style with kids from au-dience - a kind of prologue which quickly estab-lishes his magical powers; then on to the big op-ening production number built around "DrumThat Can't Be Beat" and colorful materializationof silks, flags, people, a donkey, and what seemsto amount to the bare-hand production of anelephant. Cassedega Propaganda, Mysteries ofthe Orient (with new illusions). Boy & Rabbittare also included in the first half, which closeswith the neat Buzz Sawing a Woman in Half.Second half opens with Garden of Flowers,staged anew (attractive dinner-dance setting),Blooming Bouquet, Floating Light Blub, Moor-ish Fantasies (again, new illusions), Rope Tiewith Committee from Audience (a classic black-stone routine), and finally Circus of Mysterieswhich includes a number of illusions, and endswith "The Old Man With the Whiskers" as itused to be called on the old Blackstone. Sr.(

show. It's a switch finish that sends them putof the theatre shaking their heads and saying,"It can't be done!"

»Among the standouts were The Dancing Hanker-chief and The Floating Lightbulb, both flawless-ly presented. The interplay between Blackstoneand hankerchief; the smooth, bewitching - andgutsy - presentation of the lightbulb, caught thespecial mystery and beauty of magic in consum-mate way.There's a good deal of Blackstone, Sr., in hisson's show. No wonder. That show at its peakwas the distillation of years of hard-won exper-ience. You'd be crazy to throw it away. But withevery performance the show becomes more andmore Blackstone, Jr.'s own. The father's pres-ence happily is taking on the character of an in-ner glow. It is apparent to those who knew theold show but is not essential to enjoyment ofthe present edition. To the hordes of youngsterswho packed the house (and broke attendancerecords at the Music Hall in Detroit) "Black-stone" means this Blackstone - Blackstone, Jr. -only they will drop the "Jr." as Harry wiselydid a year ago.Last season's tour - over 130 cities in 36 weeks- was a considerable feat for a show on its firsttime out. It actually surpassed anything the eld-er Blackstone undertook in his prime • and hewas no slouch at such things. This season willsee fewer cities, longer runs in those played, butprobably just as many total performances if notmore. 1980 takes the show to Minneapolis, Chi-cago, Baltimore, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleve-land and Toronto to name a few, as well as aswing through the southern states in cities nowbeing booked. Most exciting of all, perhaps, areplans for a run on Broadway. So look for Black-stone on the Great White Way this summer.It is easy to become enthusiastic about thisshow. Here, for the first time in 25 years, is afull-scale, full-evening, full-time magic show,touring continuously, playing principal theatresin leading cities from coast-to-cpast, on a hardticket, no auspices basis, and doing it with styleand class. The tremendous nut is apparent fromjust a glance at the list of staff, cast and crew.That such an undertaking can play successfullytoday is cause for rejoicing. That it also happensto be a first-rate show is cause for thanksgivingas well, for, God willing, it bodes a long life anda happy one.

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MONTE CARLO CIRCUS FESTIVAL. . .by JAMES A. CONLEY

Having filmed the Monte Carlo Circus Festivalfor the past three years, I found the article aboutthis year's winners very interesting. However, ithas two small errors. The name of the hand-bal-ancing act from Italy who won the Silver Clownis The Nicolodis, not Nicolo Distroup. While theFlying Osiers had a very fine act, they did notwin a Silver Clown but rather, one of the lesserawards. The Kovatchevi Troupe from the Bul-garian State Circus with their teeterboard act wona Silver Clown but were not mentioned in the CRarticle.The Festival of the Circus is four nights of showsconsisting of approximately 40 of the outstandingcircus acts from around the world who are com-peting for the awards. In previous years, there wasvery little duplication of acts on the first fournights; however, this year's program was marredby excessive duplication of acts. The fifth nightis the Gala Show consisting of the acts to beawarded trophies.The first night, Dec. 6, show in order of appear-ance: the Star Lords, acrobatic clowns from theKeith Anderson School of Circus in South Afri-ca; the Grantcharovi Trio from Bulgaria compos-ed of two adults and a small boy in acrobatics

from a single trapeze; the Pironkovi Troupe, alsofrom Bulgaria, with a teeterboard act; the horsesof Lucien and Phillipe Gruss from France; AlexixBrothers, one of 12 and the other of 14 years, ina hand balancing act on a high table; ChristopherJames from the U.S. with his low wire act whichis more polished each time we see it; the GreatFattini from Germany with a sway pole built tolook like a very tall lamp post; the Sallai fromHungary, a teeterboard act with the catcher work-ing on top of a rolling globe; the Gherard QuaiserElephants from East Germany with 3 elephantswho walked rolling globes freehand from oneside of the ring to the other; Intermission; ErichLeuzinger, Switzerland, with six tigers; SorinMunteanu from Russia, juggling clubs, large andsmall balls, and boomerangs; the Pompoff Fam-ily from Spain, three musical clowns, one ofwhich looks and acts like Harpo Marx; and theLeonid Kostiuk Troupe, the perch act from theMoscow State Circus.The second night's show was: the Star Lords; theexotic animals of Gherard Quaiser (East Germany}which included oxen, water buffalo, yaks, camels,mule/zebra, llama and monkey; the Sammarras(east Germany), tumbling and human pyramids;the Gruss Brothers (France) with 16 liberty hor-ses; Take Watari from Circus Kigure, Japan, hang-ing ladder with break-away finish; the Nicolodis(Italy), acrobatics on a table; Star Lords (So. Af-rica) with clever marionette and balloon breaking

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routine; the Kovatchevi teeterboard act from Bul-garia; from the U. S. Jeanette and Elvin Bale witha new aluminum space wheel constructed to comeapart so that it can be shipped by air. They wereannounced by Ringmaster Sergio as doing the"Wheel of Death"; Intermission; Dieter Farrellfrom Germany with his cat act; Duo Franconi,Mexico, scored unusually well with the audience;Kraml's five bears from Austria; Georges Carl, acomedian from the nightclubs of Paris whose an-tics adjusting the microphone for his harmonicaplaying and whose eccentric dancing were verypleasing to the predominately French audience;Gruss' dressage horses; and the Pironkovi (Bul-garia) with a Russian type swing act.The run-down for the Dec. 8 show was: StarLords; Duo Bucur (Rumania) with novel riggingthat looked like a giant umbrella with one mansuspended by a loop around his foot from a poleand iron jaw trapeze to partner; Barry Lappyfrom Great Britain, unicycle and juggling; Grusshorse dressage act; Troupe Constantin, from Ru-mania doing an unusual trampoline act, using anet as used in flying acts, for the trampoline; theRecktons (East Germany) with a bar act; Alejan-dro Ibarra, from Mexico, on the bounding rope;Leuzingers tigers again; Intermission; the FlyingOsiers from South Africa doing the triple; MimoDiLello from Italy with a fascinating comedycar; Remo and Jenny, single trapeze; the Nicolo-dis (Italy) on their hands; the Farrell Brothers

from the U.S. did a good job on the high wire;and the Quaiser elephants doing the same rou-tine they did the first night.On Dec. 9, Sunday, the show was a matinee:Star Lords, doing the same routines they haddone on each of the previous nights; Gruss dres-sage with the act seen twice before; Take Watan,with the act seen on the second night; The Fudifrom Hungary, a terrific, very rapid jugglingteam-man and woman; Jeanette and Elvin Balewith the "Wheel of Death"; Dieter Farrell withthe act seen the second night; Intermission; TheFlying Espanas from Mexico, who experiencedone of those unfortunate nights when things gowrong - they failed to catch the triple but theact shows a lot of class and polish; the PompoffFamily in the same act already viewed; the Ko-vatchevi in the act seen on the second night; andthe Kostuik perch act seen on the first night.The Fifth Gala Show was composed of the win-ners selected by the jury members: Prince Rain-ier III, John Ringling North, Michael York, EnisTogni (who supplies the tent, etc. for this festi-val), Madam Jacqueline Cartier, Madam LianaOrfei, Madam Irina Bougrimova, Albert Sordiand Rof Knie, Sr. Gary Grant was listed as ajudge, but was not present.

The running order was as follows: Troupe Con-stantin, the Star Lords, Sorin Munteanu, Duo

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MONTE C A R L O FESTIVAL (Continued)

Franconi, the Nicolodis, Jeanette and Elvin Bale,the Flying Osiers, Intermission, Dieter Farrell,the Farrell Brothers, high wire act, the horses ofLucien and Philippe Gruss, the Alexix Brothers,the Troupe Kovatchevi, Georges Carl, and theLeonid Kostuik perch act. Each of the acts inthis Gala Show was awarded a ijrize, althoughonly seven of tha acts were awarded clowns.All of the performances were ringmastered bySergio who is one of the most effective in thecircus world. It is particularly difficult to keepa one ring show moving with the set up and strik-ing of acts when there is not another ring in whichto perform. Apparently, it is considered a cour-tesy to competing acts not to set up or strikewhile another is performing. This puts a heavydemand on the ringmaster to keep the show mov-ing. This Sergio does with a great deal of person-ality and ingenuity. He was the ringmaster onthe Feld's Monte Carlo Spectacular in the UnitedStates.The orchestra of Zygmunt Michalek from theState Circus of Poland played alt five shows.While they are not as brassy as some Americancircus bands, they played on cue for a tremend-

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Among those attending from the United Stateswere Carson & Barnes owner Dorey Miller andhis wife, the Trevor Bales who saw their son wina Silver Clowm, and the Joseph Bauers, scoutingtalent and checking on the European shows withwhich they have placed acts.

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The biggest fund-raising effort atBrookfield has been for Olga. a 19-year-old, one-ton Atlantic walrus, who likesto squirt water at visitors. Because she isso expensive to keep, Brookfield is let-ting anyone share Olga for a donation of$15. So far the zoo has raised $13,000.

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NEWS FROM P. C.SOCAR.Jr.

by Lloyd E. Jones

The Souvenir Program detailing the naming of aCalcutta street in honor of the late P. C. Socarhas been changed to the birthday of the late greatmagician, Feb. 23rd, Magician's Day in India.

Mail to P. C. So rear. Jr. should now be addressedto: Indrajal, Jadu-Samrat, P. C. Sorcar Street, Cal-cutta, 700019 India.

His show has just finished a 3 month season inHyderabad which brought record houses and salesHis Excellency the President of India, Dr. NeelamSanjeeva Reddy with his family a t tended one per-formance and following it came back stage topraise the show and P. C. Sorcar, Jr., and said hewas glad that Sorcar had not entered politics sincerising to the top as he certainly would, manywould go down. An honor indeed for the head ofa nation to do such.

On Sept. 20th, Jayashree, Sorcar, Jr.'s wife, gavebirth to a daughter and she has been named, Man-eka. The name being given by Mrs. Indira Gandhiwho has just returned to power in India.

R A R E G I R LIONS BORN

A pair of rare Gir lion cubs were born at the na-tional zoo at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, early thismonth. The event was greeted with enthusiasmby wildlife experts who hope to preserve thisrare species.

There are only about 250 Gir lions in the worldand the Kuala Lumpur Zoo has seven of them,all bred from a pair presented to the zoo by theIndian government in 1962.

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CASTLE BOWS (Continued)poles good for indoor as well as outdoor use.

Tarzan works his cat act (15 lions, 3 tigers) in anewly-constructed 40 foot cage of stainless steelcable which drops and folds into the ring curb.Hefigures to reduce cage teardown to "less than twominutes."This year's edition offers a disco/space theme fea-turing twelve characters designed by Robert Wea-ver of Indianapolis and manufactured by PhilipMorris. Costumes for the twelve web girls ( andboys) are new, as well as the wardrobe for thefive show-owned elephants presented by GaryThomas. Wardrobe expenditure for all depart-ments tops $80,000.00.Castle sports an impressive lighting assemblagewith 20, 2,000 watt ground spots ("They can pinpoint a mirror ball up to 100 feet," claims Tar-zan), twelve beacon lights for the space produc-tion, twelve 2,000 watt overhead clusters, andeight towers, each carrying 3,000 watts.Equally ambitious is the all-electronic sound sys-tem devised by veteran bandmaster Clement To-ca. Working with his son Greg (who also conductsthe second unit) and wife Elizabeth, the trio fea-tures a synthesiser, electronic percussion, and anew B-200 Hammond organ. Peavy amplifiershave been added along with two 400 watt acoun-tic amps.Toca has written an original score and orchestraltapes will be utilized "to give a complete dimen-sion in sound," he says. He estimates the cost "atabout $60,000" and notes that sound equipmentwill be hauled in a special Wells Cargo trailer. To-ca adds that, with local musicians, "the band av-erages about fifteen men throughout the season".

Completing the show's appearance are threi- 45 x

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50 ft. custom designed floor mats to cover theentire surface; a 300 ft. backdrop with a dark vel-vet curtained per formance entrance; plus 1,200ft. of matching light blue vinyl to cover the hoc-ky dashboards.New acquisitions for 1980 include a cannon actas well as a self-propelled Flying Saucer routinefor Jacqueline Zerbini. Once raised to a workinglevel a trapeze appears and Jackie performs heract. Another novel feature is a "disappearing"lion.Key personnel are: Lucky Larabee, announcer;Sampion Timmerman, performance director;Gary Thomas, animal supt.; Gene Randall, witha four man clown alley; and Bob Dunham, busi-ness manager.Although the burly 37 year old Tarzan ( a work-aholic if ever there was one) has known his shareof critics through the years, few can doubt hisenthusiasm."I'm a young man on the go. Hubert Castle hasa helluva track record for a successful and honestoperation. This is one of the greatest combina-tions to happen in the circus industry."

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HAL H A V I L A N I ) Sex.. . .JOE PENNER, a famous comedian of bygone

days, was a master of absurdity and so preposter-ous was his wit that audiences howled at suchbanter as: "Riddle • What do elephants have thatno other animals have? Answer • Baby elephants"

A baby elephant, in those days, trained by WillH. Hill, was appearing in a circus show at Phila-delphia's Mastbaum Theatre. And, this event co-incided with the opening of a pioneer soft icecream parlor in downtown Philly, near the CityHall, so long ago that soft ice cream was then abig novelty.

White Circus show clowns struggled on the Mastbaum stage for laughs, an outside publicity tie-inhad been arranged whereby the baby elephantwould participate in the official soft ice creamstore opening with the Mayor from City Hall do-ing a ribbon cutting ceremony as news reel cam-eramen recorded the event.

A good crowd was on hand and everything wentaccording to schedule. Naturally, the baby ele-phant was rewarded with a huge helping of thenew soft ice cream from a gigantic serving bowl.And, the little bull enjoyed it - until she was rud-ly cut off and hustled to return to the circus stageshow. Having no cares about performance sched-ules and being pulled away hastily from the newtaste treat, the baby threw a tantrum! She threwback her trunk and plastered and sprayed themirrors, the windows, the cash register, the coun-ters, furnishings, waitresses, onlookers, barelymissing the Mayor.The newsreel camera never stopped. The result-ant national publicity was an unexpected wind-fall that spread the popularity of the new Amer-ican summer favorite, soft ice cream, from coastto coast.

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BILLY BARTON (Continued)

Understand Circus Vargas hired a European Hor-se trainer.. .The MARCANS wintered at the Gat-ti winter quarters near Palm Springs and theybouth a lion cub from Marine World/Africa USAwhere RON and ROXANNE WHITFIELD havea lion and tiger act.

DOWN RUMOR ROAD: That DIETER WICHERT is the new trainer working for JOHN CUMED with a second wild animal attraction... thatDOC HENDERSON and LLOYD MORGAN areno longer with the Ringling organization.

NEW FILMS: The ROSE starring savage BET-TE MIDLER. She is sensational.. .the movie isnot my cup of tea but I endured it just to see amagnificent performance by a unique actress..and singer.. and a highly individualistic person-ality, borrowing nothing from anyone. A com-plete original.!

TIT FOR TAT: ELF1E KLEMENTI severelysprained her ankle in the bike act and was inva-lided for four weeks. The act was dropped fromthe show meanwhile until both Egon (on crutches)and Elfie (on crutches) mended and could returnto work. Helmut made use of the time off byflying to Boston to visit his girlfriend. Elfie saysthey hope to get through 1980 without any moreaccidents! I hope so, too, kids.

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GEORGE CARDEN and GINA MEDRO were married on Nov. 10th at Springfield, Mo. George is amanager with the Garden-Johnson Circus and theson of Betty and Larry Garden. Gina is a memberof the performing Medro family and does a balancing act. The couple honeymooned in Las Vegasand now makes their home in Willard, Mo.

TOM "Popcorn" SINK and his partner ETCET-ERA the Clown, were married early this year.They worked Christmas dates in New Jersey andsome Emmett Kelly, Jr. Circus dates. The coupleis now residing in Howell, NJ.

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CIRCUS Q U I P S . . . .....by KARLJ. BISCHOFF

THE TWO words liked the least in show businessare "Hold Back".

THERE is no right way to do a wrong thing.

SOME SHOW GIRLS begin by blocking a show-man's advances and end up by cutting off his re-treat.

ARE YOU a good trouper or a bad tourist?

WISE SHOW PEOPLE know you can't pull whileyou're kicking and you can't kick while you'repulling.

KATIE SEGER. RBBB Clown College graduate,who has been teaching clown classes in the SanFrancisco area, is now in England on a studentexchange program. She expects to return to theU. S. late this year.

ANGELA WILNOW nad her Collies will be at theHome Show in Albuquerque, N.M., the week ofApril 7th (booked by Amandis Entertainment),after which she jumps to the Shrine Circus in In-dianapolis, Ind., for the week of April 21st, (adate booked by Howard Schultz Agency).

HAROLD H1ATT, a computer expert, recentlyretired from the Valley News (Calif.) computersystems. He has been a lifelong circus enthusiastand is married to a former Ringling circus star.

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SMITH GIVES TIGERSKINTO MUSEUM

Roger Smith, wild animal trainer and one-timecage boy for Clyde Beatty, has given the skin ofa Beatty tiger to the planned Clyde Beatty Mus-eum. The young female tiger died as a result ofa truck wreck in 1964, Smith reported. She hadbeen one of a litter of three bom to Princess, theroll-over tigeress, and Prince, a long-time Beattyperformer.Dale Price, former circus advance man who plansto open the Beatty Museum in the late trainer'shometown of Bainbridge, Ohio, in 1980, statedthat the skin is in excellent condition and hadbeen made into a rug with a full head mountwhile in Smith's possession.Price plans to exhibit the skin with a chair usedby Beatty that was donated by Dave Hoover."The amount of support we are getting for thisproject is most encouraging," Price said. "It's asif a number of Beatty-related items had been sit-ting around in trunks and scrapbooks just wait-ing for the right time to come out."

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Nov. 5-25 - Victor Julian's Little Stars presentedby Leo Coffey; Paradise On Ice; Executive InnHotels.

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Dec. 27-28 - Emmett Kelly, Jr. Circus at Wash-ington, DC - Cimse's Russian Wolfhounds andPomeranians, The Dynamic DeMille, tightwire.Ken Sherbume, unicycle/juggler/globes. TheAmazing Mr. Rhythm, dancing horse, Zippie,TV Chimp, Alfie Comedy Cockatoo and Ma-caws, Satani Demon, novelty fire act.

Dec. 29 - Emmett Kelly, Jr. Circus at Vineland,NJ - Cimse's Russian Wolfhounds and Pomer-anians, The Dynamic DeMille, tightwire, SataniDemon, novelty fire act, Ken Sherhurne, uni-cycle/juggler/globe, Crawford & Gloria, illus-ions.

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I: ̂ riAMERICAN LEGION CIRCUS.. .

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The annual American Legion Christmas Party atDelphi, Ind., was held on Dec. 20th. with a singleperformance presented at 7 p.m.This performance was a joyous occasion for theZoppe Family, as it marked the debut perform-ance of seven months old Justino Zoppe doing abalance act as a portion of the Laddies Unsupport-ed Ladder Act.The program featured: Clowns, Johnny Zoppeand Chris Helt; Christmas Music by Gerry Schei-man; "Jolly" balancing act (Heinz and LindaPichler); The Laddies, unsupported ladders (theZoppes); Clowns with Apple Gag; Prof. Shappie,comedy piano (Heinz and Linda); Clowns withbalancing the bottle; Susan Sheryll's Royal Af-ghans (Susan Zoppe); Santa Claus.Francis Sanders was the announcer; Gerry Schei-man handled the audio; and Wendell Sanders andFrank Loudermilk handled the electrical work.

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