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3 Killed in WreckThree men were killed early on the morning of April 29th when the Carden-Johnson-Clyde

Bros. Circus prop semi slammed into a railroad bridge at Houghton, Mich. Three other men whowere also riding in the truck were injured, one seriously.

An eyewitness said he heard a semi coming coming down the hill on Bridge Street in Hough-ton - faster and faster it came — people were screaming - it crossed busy US 41 - and crashedinto a Soo Railroad bridge. One survivor said the last thing he remembered was the sound ofleaking air — then awful silence.

A borrowed truck was used to bring whatprops could be salvaged to the show's engage-ment at Menominee, but gone were some sec-tions of the ring curbs, the organ, drums, ampli-fier, the PA system and lights, plus some propsand rigging.

A turnaway crowd was on hand to greetthe circus for both shows that day, as localcitizens welcomed the circus in its moment oftragedy. It was a sad show, but a good one,is the way one spectator expressed his reaction.

Killed in the accident were Carl A. Nordin,43, of Lubbock, Texas, driver of the truck;

Show ActsCapacity crowds attended each performance of thatrecent circus in Puerto Rico. The show was present-ed in a European-style, one-ring tent, using specialring lights and overhead floods. Music for the showwas directed by Keith Killinger.The program was made up of a combination of U.S.and European acts and featured: Chary-body, 12people; Arabian fantasy, camels and ponies, Sheik

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GFA NotesThe Ernestine Clarke Tent, CFA, in Bellingham,Wash., celebrated its 35th anniversary on April16th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Win-ter. The tent was organized in April 10, 1943.

Special guest of honor was Ernestine Clarke forwhom the tent is named. The daughter of ErnestClarke and Elizabeth (Hanneford) Clarke, Ernes-tine was a member of the Clarkonians FlyingTrapeze Act. She was also a bareback rider andthe only one to perform a mid-air split above aprancing horse.

Married to Parley Baer, one of the most-wellknown circus ringmasters (retired), Ernestine isnow living in California where Parley continuesto do radio and television spots.

Mso present at the celebration were Ernestine'sdaughter Kim and 2 year old grandson AnthonyDomenick Fagundes. Kim, who at one timeworked with the elephants on Circus Vargas,now lives on a farm in Burlington, Wash, withher husband and son. Another daughter, Dale,works in the Grizzly Adams production depart

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date 3 rings of Arabian high school horses... REDGATES is touring a sharp looking, first class conces-sion unit - plexiglass stands, fully illuminated.. .KAYBALDRIGE stooged for NORBU in Lexington, calledlight cues and did web (busy gal).. .Does JOE SHER-MAN have a new romance? Is her name WANDA?ERIK ADAMS, Jr. was unhappy when his brand newtrailer was backed into recently, and speaking of mis-haps WALLY and CHERYL's car and trailer were hitby a truck, the unit went over an embankment (I'mtold) and was totally demolished.. .GEE GEE deci-ded against the property next to WALLY NAGHTIN,but still plans to buy a place in Gibsonton eventually. .STU MILLER'S magic show opens May 20 at Jef-ferson (Oh) for a 26 week tour.. .ALBERTO andSANDY ZOPPE took delivery on a new 36 ft. housetrailer in Altoona while appearing there with GardenBros.. .Organist JOHN ASBURY has recovered fromhis auto accident, is back at work.. .Boom Boom'sson TOM BROWNING is on the Navy's newest de-stroyer, the USS Peterson, which is trailing Russianships in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch-dogs on the Hus-kies who may or may not be attempting to place sub-marine pens off the Cuban coast.Veteran clown (retired) JACK HARRISON, who hadopen heart surgery at 79, is now 83, chipper andcheerful. He and VELMA reside at Joe and PeggyZoppe's trailer park at Seagoville (Tex) which Velmamanages... .The cult following of ELVIS PRESLEYcertainly rivals that of Valentino or even the 'StarTrekkies".. .Point in Fact: The Rupp Arena Manage-ment in Lexington, where Elvis was scheduled to ap-pear just before his death, refunded ALL but $62,000Those ticket holders RE FUSED a refund, wishing toretain their tickets as souveniers.Word from Boston is that agent FRANK SOPER hasbeen ill in a hospital and that his partner ABBOTTADAMS suffered a stroke in January... LINDA andHEINZ SHAPPf's baby is due soon.. .DENISE ZOP-PE, married to ANTONIO OLMEDA, is on Carden-Johnson where with Antonio's twin, PEPE, the triodo a 3 ring dressage display using Spanish costuming.JOE ZOPPE is putting the finishing touches to a cle-ver and original new animal act called Zoppe's Mini-ature Medieval Fantasy. Joe has broken 10 poniesdraped in Medeival blankets and trappings and bear-ing 'electronic' dummies on their backs. The figuresrepresent King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, other charactersfrom King Arthur's Court, plus Knights with joustinglances. The Queen does a 'waltz and rear' by remote

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DICK GARDEN'S "Circus California" presen-ted a special performance in California's SanQuentin Prison on May 4th. The event waswell covered by various news services, includ-ing all local press and TV outlets.

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NEW STARby Clayton Wood

Another Con Colleano? If the predictions ofWinnie Colleano and others who have seenyoung Dino Menendez work on the wire arecorrect, there is a good chance that Dino mayjust achieve that status.Dino is 11 years old and works with his sisterAnita (9) who is also an accomplished wire ar-tist. The pair just recently completed theirfirsi professional engagement, nine weeks at

j i . l Chicago in Bollingbrook, III. Then theyopened on May 1st with Cirque Gatini in Que-bec, for a summer-long tour. Representativesof Catini flew to Sarasota to see the youngman work and following the performance hewas signed for the summer.Winnie Colleano thinks so highly of Dino shehas given him exclusive use of the title "Wiz-ard of the Wire" which was used by Con.Dino comes by his ability naturally as his fa-ther Rafael Menendez was a highly skilled per-former in several fields. He has worked withmany of the circus 'greats' of recent years. Hismother, Yanna, is a former prima ballerinaand still performs on the trapeze.Dino has a natural flair for the wire and doesseveral maneuvers that few performers, withmany years experience can do.I sat with Karl Wallenda during the circus per-formance at Old Chicago just three weeks be-fore his fatal fall and he said "the boy is verygood, he could be the world's best in a fewyears."When a Chicago Tribune reporter interviewed

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The program includes: Overture (Richard Ro-sio, organist, Terry Hanson, drums); Ringmas-ter Phil Chandler's welcome; Prince Berosini,Arabian Fantasy (2 camels, pony, miniatureburro); Linda Karl and Fabian Bridges, aerialwebs; Dunlope and Rosita, Dancing Clowns;Barbara Fairchild, ballerina on horseback; theRamposia Trio, high wire; Las Vegas magicalreview with Phil and Linda Chandler; the GreatOttotinj, hand balancing; the Chalmers Trio,comedy plate act; Lisa Fairchild, high jump-ing horse; Rudy Dockey, clown cooking; Dis-play with Linda, Marie and Fabian on trapeze;Berosini's uncaged tigers; Intermission.

Display with Barbara and Lisa Fairchild, highschool horses and Prof. Otto, military ponies;.Rudy Dockey, musical clowning; Miss Angelaand The LaBlancs, Circus Wonderment display;

MAGIC CONCLAVEThe Int'l Brotherhood of Magicians, Wm. E.Baker Ring 44, of R. I., with Fred Marco, president, held its annual 'cabaret nite' at theShriners Hall/in Cranston, R. I., on April 15.Participants in the program were: Kevin Men-ard, MC; H. Adrian Smith, past pres. of Nat'lSociety of Magicians, presented cards andrings; Harry Zietel, locks, cuffs, straight jack-et; Lon Cerel, misc. illusions.Fred Marco, as a tribute to Oavid Bamberg,wound up the program as Fu Manchu in fullChinese costume, make-up and props. It wasa 4 star performance for the well attendedaffair- Tom Kulbabsky

Paulettes Peerless Puppies; Barbara, Lisa andWilma on swinging ladders; the Dorsey Fam*sily and Ottomini and Marie, jugglers; JamesCrawford and Wilma , elephants.

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JOE FLEMING reports he visited the Carson& Barnes Circus, No. 2 unit, late last month,and that the show is carrying 10 elephants.The show has trucks from several differentcircuses - Sid Kellner, original Carson-Barnes,Kelly-Miller and Fisher Bros.

WILMA RENCH, organist, is right at home inher new custom-built 25 ft. travel trailer, de-signed and built for her by K. Z. Industries, ofMidlebury, Ind. Wilma is on tour with the Gat-ti Productions.

DE LAGE & MARGARET have been bookedto present their special act at the Society ofAmerican Magicians Convention in NYC onJuly 6th, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

HANK PETERSEN, former concessionaire onthe Hubert Castle Circus, is currently touringwith the American Continental Circus.

JAN IS, wife of illusionist DORIAN BLAKE,was involved in an auto accident enroute to adate at Darlington, S. C. She was driving ahead

EARLY STARTOn Thursday, April 27, the Stebbings RoyalEuropean Circus held a Dress Rehearsal atFloriland Mall in Tampa, Fla.The new blue and white tent is a beauty, butthe highlight of the show was Ton!' the amaz-ing mother chimp. She was dressed and work-,ed the act, but all the while, her 3 week oldbaby was clinging to her.

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of the show truck when the accident occured.The car was totaled and Janis will be under thedoctor's supervision for several weeks.

HEIDI WENDANY will work her dogs, poniesand horse on the upcoming Tommy BentleyCircus dates in California.

DOLORES CORONADO recently worked withan elephant act on the Funs-A-Poppin Circus,and the BRAUNS, western acts, are featuredwith the show this month.

BARON VON UHL has his lions and tigers atthe Kingdoms 3 Park in Stockbridge, Ga., forthe summer season.

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by M. L. DupontCHARLES KOEHLER, former owner of theDixiana Circus, recently spent a day on theshow when it was across the lake from NewOrleans. The show owned by Pete Luvas, fea-tures the African bull Kenya. The Slater fam-ily is touring with the show.Do Do, the Clown, worked at the RetardedChildren's Olympic track meet in Monroe, La.on April 22nd. Several hundred children tookpart in the event, under the direction of theJaycees.DON NIEMAN, CFA of Columbus, Ohio, hasjust returned from a trip to Kenya, Africa, andreports it was a great trip. Don also says thatthe Tony Diano Tent hosted performers andpersonnel of the Hubert Castle Circus to a din-ner.Ringling and the Monroe (La) Shriners haveworked out an agreement on the June 20-21date for the Red Unit in Monroe. Word has itthat the Shriners will get the Crackerjack salesfor one performance, plus the sale of some tic-

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kets, plus ads in the massive Shrine paper, is-sued in lew of a program.Some of the old Ringling railroad cars havebeen moved to permanent sites at Circus Worldwhere they will house artifacts and displays.Wonder what happened to the 17 story hoteland restuarnat (built like an elephant) thatwas so widely heralded a short t ime back7

Various dues keep going up, wonder where itis all going to stop' Many folks say they havedropped subscriptions and memberships be-cause of the price increases.EARL ALLEN was the subject of a recentnewspaper item which pictured Earl readingan old Billboard in his Circus Room. Earl, wholives in Sikeston, Mo. will be 83 this monthand this writer would like to wish him a real"Happy Birthday." Take care of him Louise,as we all love him.

WALLACE G. WINTER, CFA of Bellingham,Wash., recently visited the Bates Bros. Int'lCircus at several Canadian spots.

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M&M CIRCUS INTERNATIONALE

by Bill Galloway

The 1978 Tangier Shrine Circus at Omaha, Nebr.was produced for the first time by M&M Circus In-ternationale (Apr. 18-23). The show was accla imedto be the finest seen here in many years and this canbe attested to by the attendance figures. More thantwice as many people attended the c i rcus this year,as compared to last year. Many comments wereheard about the high quality of the performers andthe beauty of the show. People were especially pleased by the spec "Land of Mother Goose", producedby Jimmy Douglass.

The press and TV had extensive coverage of the cir-cus. Several articles appeared in the Omaha World-Herald about the performers and local TV stationsdid extensive fi lming during the performances andin the "back yard".

M&M Circus Internationale has been signed to pro-duce the 1979 Tangier Circus and dates have beenset for 1980 as well.

The show line-up featured: Circus Overture; Intro-duction of officials; spec "Land of Mother Goose";Harry Thomas, tigers; The Apollos, cradle; displaywith Jose Francisco, hand balancing. The Ricardos,low wire; The Charlies (Gutis), balancing; Clownsand the Firecracker; display with The Agulars, perch,Retro & Joyce, ladder balance. The Carlos Bros.,perch; Carmen del Molino, balancing trapeze; BabyDondi, elephant comedy; Clowns, the toothache;display with Lipko's Chimps, Sandy's ponies andJohnson's bears; Victor Julian, dogs; Intermission;The Flying Lunas; Clowns with Dog Pie; display withthe Canestrellis and Vickinas, teeterboards; The Gu-tis Family, comedy; Clowns, Long Shirt; aerial dis-play with Dainty LaVonne; Sandy and Jack Ful-

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The Flying Padillas, featuring Tuli's triple somer-sault (Mex ico) ; Juggling, Berosini (Checos); Clowns(Danish and Bulgarian); Slack wire, Bonnacorzo, fea-turing Maurizio's one finger stand on the wire (Italy);Acrobats, Tanger Troupe (Moroccos) ; Space Rocket,The Brounleys (Sweden).

bright, dressage; Los Obandos, high wire, Lee andJeanette Keener with the Diano elephants and theVashek Duo, aerial motorcycle.

Clown Alley included: Vern Woerner, producingclown, David Chabira, Bruce Warner, Dime Wilson,Connie Wilson and Roy Arringdale.

The show's staff consisted of: Grace Mclntosh andCharles Marine, producers; James Douglass, perfor-mance director and announcer; Bill "Boom Boom"Browning, musical director; Carlos Obando, propboss; Mark Anthony, show timer; Miss Lisa, ward-robe and Joyce Canestrelli, aerial director.

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HOLVECK & CO. were the closing act on theMagi-Whirl '78 Convention in Washington,DCon May 12-13.

HELEN WALTERS recently visited both un-its of the Carson & Barnes Circus and is nowlooking forward to visiting with MEL SILVER-LAKE and Family.ANITA and WILSON ZAMUDIO, of the Fly-ing Wilastons, are the parents of a baby girl -Adriana - born in Las Vegas on April 19th.WANETA LEONARD, wife of animal trainerR, E. Leonard, is recovering from spinal sur-gery at St. Francis Hospital, Room 404, To-peka, Kansas. She would enjoy hearing fromfriends.

JENNY WALLENDA writes that Gil Millerwas not on the plane that brought her father'sbody back from Puerto Rico. Jenney says thepeople escorting Karl's body home were: Helen,Carla, Jenny, plus Patsy Jordan and daughterLiza.CAROL OBANDO had an accident with her ,5th wheel unit enroute from puluth to Omahaand although the unit was wrecked she vis notinjured.

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control, with Joe Controlling the ponies and the elec-tronic figures garbed as Merlin the Magician. This in-teresting new act is already booked for the Rodeo cir-cuit and promises to be a smash on indoor dates nextwinter.. .Meanwhile Joe picked up the somersaulthorse, Billy, from the George Hanneford Troupewhen Vicki played Tyler (Tex) with Kelly Bros. Thereport is George Jr. will not ride anymore, and Vicki.was heart-sick to see the horse go.BOUQUETS: To the Zoppe Arabian Riders, the pre-cocious chimp Kenya, that incredible pony, Windy.As in everything the Zoppes do, originality is stressedwith lots of comedy and top-notch riding as well. Theact has simply got to be, at this time, the BEST rid-ing troupe in the entire world. Moreover they arewarm, co-operative people who do their work, mindtheir own business, and leave their egos — with theirgreatness — in the ring where it belongs. Would thatALL performers be so humble!ROAD TO NOWHERE: When Bill Strong and PeeWee Pinson trekked off to pick up Bill's truck, leftin a Kentucky mountain town for repair, the teamgot lost leaving Lexington and followed a beautiful,new road which dropped them off - - yep, you guess-ed it! - - in the middle of an open field.See you down the road, luvs.

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MAGICTHE BOSTON area has enjoyed a ver i table deluge ofmagic this spring. The Cabot Street Cinema Theatreis an old vaude house which has been taken over by agroup of local theatre buffs. Not only have they com-pletely refurbished this fine old theatre, but theyhave obtained "Marco the Magi" to stage a full stagemagic production which has been running over ayear now, on weekends. And what a production itis! Marco is from Argentina and one can spot the in-fluence of David Bamburgh (Fu-Manchu). All 40members of the theatre group are in the show whichhas several full stage illusions, several sets of scenery,several vaudeville acts, etc. It's really something tosee.

The Bertolino's presented their annual public magicshow at the Hancock Theatre in downtown Bostonon Apr. 7th, this year headlining Milbourne Christo-pher. Dick Gustalphson's full evening magic show,Illusia, showed Attleboro on Apr. 8 and Lowell thefollowing day. The Blackstone road show was due onApr. 18 at Worcester, but has been postponed untilMay 10th. Blackstone, Jr., just opened Apr. 24 at thePlayboy Club in NYC, expect he will make Worcesterafter NYC.

We just made Bob Snowden's big Manchester (NH)Shrine Circus date along with Dr Dwight Damon, ofMerrimack. Dr. Dwight has to be one of the busiestmagi in the far north east.

APRJL 10th we caught the Englewood (NJ) Lion'sClub Magic Show. Line-up was: The Great Delage andMargaret (without doubt a top act), George Sands,Jose de la Torre, Bobby Baxter, Fred Dery and BobMyers & Co. Many local magi's were there, includingLarry Weeks who has the four one day magic conven-tions in NYC each year.

Cl RCUS' this year are full of magic. Ringling is pro-ducing the famous midget, Michu, via a nifty flamingbox production. Jim Royal is with Hoxie, Phil Chan-dler with S&G, Jerry Conklin with Martin & Downs,and Senor Raye and Philip Morris with Hanneford.

OUR home away from home for many years has beenthe New Yorker Trailer City in No. Bergen, N.J. whichis run by members of the 'Honey Girls' who did avery classy aero-dance act. This time we were joinedby Jim Nordmark's All Star Circus, Bill Garden'sShowtime Follies and several of Tommy Hanneford'sacts. For a few days you might have thought we werein Sarasota in January. Jim Green (Chiron & Co) is

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managing the Showtime Follies and doing his finemagic act also. Al Delage and I caught the show inLinden (NJ) and it was a pleasure to see this real prowork.

We spent an enjoyable evening at the Magic TowneHouse in NYC. They start about 8:30 on Fri. andSat nites, serving a buffet lunch and follow it withsome great close-up acts. The nite we were there, pro-prieter Dick Brooks was on the bill so we had an ad-ded treat. Don't miss this spot if you are in the 'BigApple'. Everyone in the NYC area is anxiously await-ing Dick Brooks' Hocus Pocus magic magazine.

RUMOR has it that Richiardi's show. The World Fes-tival of Magic and Witchcraft, may open in NYC far

an extended run.

WE are happy to announce that our Magic Time USAshow will be presented by Mearl Johnson at the Para-mount Arts Center in Aurora (III) June 17th. The cityof Aurora has just spent $3 million renovating thisfine theatre and we are proud to be one of the firstroad shows in. All Chicago area fans are invited. Ourcomplete route will be in CR.

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PHILIP MORRIS, visited the Rob-erts Bros. Circus on April 27th andacted as guest ringmaster for theday.

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ENGLISH CIRCUSESby Jack NiblettAs if to dispel rumors that the Circus is "fal-tering" in England, we have two new showson the road this season, to add to the long es-tablished Fossett's, Chipperfield's, Robert's,Hoffman's, Austen's and Cottle circuses, inaddition to the half-dozen smaller shows.Sally Chipperfield, youngest daughter of Ric-hard Chipperfield director of the "big show",together with her husband, Jim Clubb, hasstarted out with her own circus this year. Theshow is designed to play smaller towns, whichthe large Chipperfield Circus does not visit.Sally's show, which I saw at Kenilworth, hadher brother Tommy presenting ponies and ri-ding high school, Sally's poodles, jockey andacrobatic monkeys, James Clubb's Russianbears, Sally's five lionesses presented by JamesClubb, the Ivanovs, revolving trapeze, Terry Ef-flet, musical muscle man, Miss Sharon, on thecorde lisse, Richard Sandow, on the rola bola,Miss Amanda on the silverwire, Langre Juniorin an African Fantasy (dagger, spear, ladderbalancing), 'Ostrich' act by Gwyn and MaggieClown Rico Woodie, concluding with membersof the company in a western act, titled "TheDenvers." This program will undergo some al-terations and additions as the season progress-es, and is likely to soon include elephants.The second new English circus to start out thisseason was Davey's Circus Spectacular. Thisone is owned by David Bowditch, a newcom-

er to the business, and its first performancewas at Southall, near London.Davey opened with a group of ponies shownby Jack Varney, and other acts included threefrom South Africa, the Phoenix Trio, flyingtrapeze, the Oakley Duo, adagio balancing act,and The Ryers, aerial cradle. Los Kedellos ap-peared with their balancing act, while SallyKeddolo, from this family, delighted with hersolo corde lisse act. Richard Viner rode highschool, while clowning was in the hands of'John O'Groats (John Slater). John's wife ap-peared as the Lady Ringmaster. Two animalacts from Roberts Circus were booked - fivetigers presented by newcomer Alberto, withRoberts elephants (2) and spotted ponies (2),shown on this occasion by Beverley Roberts.This show made an impressive start, but hassince been plagued with misfortune. High windand snow storms caused considerable damageto the big top and this aggravated by staffingproblems, caused the show to return to win-ter quarters, after a month on the road, for re-pairs and reforming.

However, Davey's Circus Spectacular is confi-dently expected to be out again within a fewweeks, and with a new seasonal circus operat-ing all summer at Cleethorpes Zoo, and withGerry Cottle having his second unit out, for along season, there are more circuses on theroad in England now, than for many a year. _

KATHY VASCHEK visited the M&M Circusat Omaha, with her new son. Her sister CINDYworked in the aerial wire act.

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