8th Year May 14,1979 Number 20

Tour Gross UpThe 1979 winter tour of Bill Brickie's Wonderland Circus Revue grossed its heaviest profits

ever. The show's biggest day was when it played Alston Jr. High School and Sommerville HighSchool, where 2,300 students attended the circus in two performances. Concessions also reportedtop grosses at this engagement.

The larger and stronger program presented on the tour has been credited with the increase inattendance throughout the tour. The show's program featured: Berwin & Brewster, illusions, magicand fire; Miss Irene Bautista, aerial displays; Bill Brickie and his Poodle Fanusy; Fernando Bautista,balancing and juggling; Phil Sadler, Gary Bcarden and Gene Hughes, clowns. Gary also doubled asthe show sound man and electrician and served as assistant to Bill Brickie.

The show's date at Orangeburg, S.C. drewoverflow crowds and was described as a "bannerday". Personnel from the Nordmark show stop-ped to visit the circus at this engagement, asthey were enroute from Columbia to Wilming-ton, N.C.

The Wonderland Circus Revue will re-sume its fall tour in November. They will closefor the Holidays and then the tour will start

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Charges MadeProblems have developed over a circus promotion

at Cincinnati, Ohio, and suits have been filed againstthe State Attorney General's Office to stop him frorrregulating a contract between the Police Associationand the promotional team of the circus.

The suit asks for $600,000 in damages and chargesthe Attorney General and his charitable foundations

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SYRIAN TEMPLE SHRINE .... by Don Sandman

The 58th annual Syrian Temple Shrine Circus washeld April 17-22 at the Cincinnati Gardens. The cir-cus, this year, was produced by Tommy Hannefordand Glenn Parkins. The show's ringmaster was PhilMorris, Al Leonard was vocalist and Wally Jones theproducing clown.

The program was as follows: Slide for Life by Ms.Jewel and the Great Huberto; Overture by band, dir-ected by Keith Killinger, with Leo Mascito; Star WarSpec; Ada Smieya, wild animals; The Great Bruno,break-away pole; Count de Boxcar Young and hiscannon; the Victor Julian dogs; Beeswax, the Mule;Lou Ann Jacob, trapeze with four web girls; Los La-tinos, wire; Le Franciscos, teeterboard; Senor Maga-no, whips; Les Castros, high wire; Spec "SomewhereOver the Rainbow"; Intermission with baton twirlingcontest; The Flying Gaonas; The Ventura Duo, aerialperch; Clowns; Moore's Madcap Mongrels; Kings Ele-phants; Hal Haviland's pony; Prince Damoo and Sa-bu, the uncaged leopard; The Vashek Duo, aerial mo-torcycle; Parade of circus stars; Hugo Zacchini, thehuman cannon ball, closing with Flying Flags as afarewell march.

ANTIACH TEMPE SHRINE ... by Don Sandman

The 37th annual Antiach Temple Shrine Circus washeld at Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio, April 17-22. Theshow was produced by Hubert Castle, with Lucky •;Larabee, ringmaster/announcer. Les Schlafman direc-ted the band and Al Ross was producing clown.The show opened with the house lights down and thespotlights picking up the Winn Bros, walking an in-clined wire, one up and one down, passing at the cen-ter; then came Tarzan Zerbini with 14 lions and 3 ti-gers; Clowns follow with the sharp shooting gag, then

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JOE LEMKE's chimps are wearing new and excitingwardrobe created by GFRTIE CRAIG, of Dallas. Shesews for the Music Hall and Opera where her husbandMAX is a stage hand.

CAROL and "Baby Tarra" appeared in the 'PioneerDays Parade' at Simi Valley, Calif., last month andalso worked the Sports & Leisure Show in Santa Bar-bara, Calif.

BOBBY STEBBING and the Polack elephants joinedthe American Continental Circus at Oakland, Calif.,on April 27th.

came the Franconi Sisters, double trapeze; followedby Randy and Sylvia, balancing; Veno Venito, sway-ing ladder; The Lambertis, juggling; Erik Adams, ca-nine stan; Prof. Shappi, comedy piano; Mile. Jacque-line, trapeze; Timothy & Daniel, rola bola; the Caro-line Twins, contortion; Six Ashtons, risley; Lee andJeanatte Keener with the Oiano elephants (6); Inter-mission; The Flying Espanas; Clowns with acrobatics;Miss Lillian, Miss Barbara, Miss Loni, foot juggling;the Adams Chimps; Princess White Cloud, cloudswing; Karl's French Poodles; the Gutis Family, gor-.ilia parody; Erik Acadis, one finger stand; MartinLamberti, one finger stand; Jolly, equilibrist; theHernandez Troupe, teeterboard; Finale with theHans Winn Troupe, aerial motorcycle.

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May 15 Orange, Calif.16Chu!a Vista17 San Diego

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Beany-Cole CircusMay 14-15 Washington, Pa.

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Carson & Barnes CircusMay 14 Ft. Collins, Colo.

15 Sterling16 Kimball, Nebr.17 Sidney18 Scons Bluff19 Ogallala20 North Plane

Hubert Castle CircusMay 14-17 Thunder Bay, Ont.

Ont.14-15 Moose Jaw, Sask.

16 Yorkton18-19 Swift Current

Circus GenoaMay 12 Clairton, Pa.

Circus VargasMay 11-14 Monterey, Calif.

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Funs-A-Poppin CircusMay 13-17 San Diego, Calif.

Great Amer. Youth CircusMay 18-19 Redlands, Calif.

Hamid-Morton CircusMay 15-19Pittsburg, Pa.

Happytime CircusMay 18-20 Napa. Calif.

Allan C. Hill Productions, Inc.present Great American CircusMay 14 Hanover, Pa.

15 York16 Waynesboro17 Chambersburg18 Shippensburg19 McConnellsburg20 Windber

Hoxie Bros. CircusMay 15 Harrisonburg, Va.

16 Front Royal17 Leesburg18 Martinsburg19 McLean20 Clear Spring, Md.

Monte Carlo CircusMay 15-16 Springfield, Mo.

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Moscow CircusMay 16-20 Birmingham, Ala

Pickle Family CircusMay 19-20 Ukiah, Calif.

Ringling-Barnum - Blue UnitMay 17-20 Portland, Me.

Ringling-Bamum - Red Unitto June 3 New York, N. Y.

Royal Lichtenstein CircusMay 14 Logan, Utah

15 Ogden16-18 Salt Lake City

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Tom Ogden - MagicianMay 15 Canton, Ohio

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Circus Saints & SinnersMay 17-19 Washington, DC

Clowns, Inc.May 16 Newcastle, Pa.

James H. Drew ExpositionMay 14-19Charieston,W.Va.

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AT CIRCUS CIRCUS Casino are MICHAEL CHIW-RICK. ANETA VARGAS, the STANEKS, back fromEurope and doing in addition to teeterboard a com-edy turn called HUMPTY DUMPTY; ORESTO, twoflying acts, plus the perennial MICKEY H A R T Z E L L.

DRESSING ROOM MYSTERY: KAREN NYCE re-turned to the lady's dnssing room between shows inBuffalo to discover her one-finger device missing. Wetry to belive the pilfering was not done by someoneon the show, but dressing rooms for men and womenwere side-by-side and in a hard-to-get-to area withonly show personnel passing through the halls anddoors, so it looks very much like an "inside job".Karen is a sweet, friendly girl and I know I speakfor the majority of us who are sincerely sorry aboutthe incident.

JANICE & Ml KE ARIA unveiled their new GoldenRetriever dog act in Montgomery (Ala) on GardenBros., said the dogs were unconcerned by lights, mu-sic or general hubub.. .or... by Cook's Comedy Carrattling past as they exited from the ring (withoutleashes). The kids are full of praise for veteran ani-mal trainer LOU REGAN who gave them whatamounts to a "full semester of animal training" in aweekend. Remarks Janice: "Lou is very blunt, notnot vague or over-complimentary - smart as hell aboutanimals and what we learned from him justified theentire trip," The Arias commented also that IAN andMICKEY GARDEN are one of the most "gorgeouscouples" in show business, "enuff to make us allpine for salt and pepper hair!" The Arias will makethe second unit tour of 6 weeks for Ian, arrangedwhen Bauer-Hall released them from a previous com-mitment, and will play the Wallenda dates later thissummer which were set by Bauer-Hall.

SNAPSHOTS: FLYING LAR-RAYS will be withCircus Vargas in 1980.. .Didyaknow that JUANVASQUEZ fell in the identical location where NAN-CY GIORDANO fell a year earlier? And at that

spot it was the third such scene of an aerialist fallingThe Shriners will no longer permit aerial acts to hangthere.. .CHARLIE VAN BUSKIRK creates originaljewelery in gold and silver, very elegant and very ex-pensive finely cra f ter pieces.. .Appearing at thatVariety Show in Allen Park (Mich) Apr. 14-15 forSANDY DOBRITCH were DIETER TASSO, MAN-

,ZINI, CHRIS ALBERT! DUO, and the DEBUTAN-• TES, a singing group.. .Organist JESSIE GRIFFITHSdid a three week stint for BILL GARDEN in theSouth, has a full season of fairs into October, follow-ed by Xmas dates. Jessie went through the elephantordeal in Decatur and returned to hometown Harris-burg to become embroiled in that nuclear reactorscare. Jessie quipped she had visions of becoming aharp player on a cloud.. .This time it is true. BILLand TRUDY are BACK from Mexico (Thank God).DAVE MURPHY, PR for two large Now York Statehospitals, is moonlighting with a vengeance: he hadthe James M. Cole Circus for two days in Feb., hasthe Dubsky Royal Palace unit for the first week inJune, and booked the Great American for4 days inlate July. ..Clown BRUCE WARNER made the Wic-hita date for PAUL KAYE. . .VASHEK DUO, LOSLATINOS, made the Cincy Shrine date.. The writerpresented special awards to the TRIO VASQUEZ inthe dressing room in New Orleans and, wouldn't youknow, irrepressible JUAN ate his.. .NORBU, DUOBERTINI, OLINKA, TINO WALLENDA ZOPPE,the SCHMITTS, among many, braved the Kentuckymountains for George's 8 days of one day stands...The Ice-Circus combination went off OK in Youngs-town after a slushy start. Took 30 men over 30 hoursto rig the ice rink. The FLYING ESPANAS, FRAN-CONI DUO, ROMAN and EDDIE SCHMITT wereamong the non-ice performers.. .BONNIE & CLYDEtouring with Int'l All Star.. .IRIS KEPPO and partnerdoinga new comedy act, I hear.. .BILL SLATERhas been prop boss on the Hubler dates.. .MARCEL-LA ( of the Los Latinos) reveals the Monte Carlo Cir-cus is the FIRST circus she has ever been able to sitthrough in toto - she loved it. Most reports filed byperformers, once the show's opening bugs were out,have been excellent. Certainly the French ringmasterappears to be the show's major sensation... REYNA

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Injury ReportGEORGE CASTRO fell while descending the slantedwire at the Shrine Circus in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April18th. He fell about 8 feet to the floor and received abroken wrist and a slight concussian, and is recuper-ating in Florida. His brother, HERNEY, finished theengagement, working as a single.

JONNY JORDAN, of the "Jordonis" high act is re-covering at the Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y. af-ter being injured during his sponge dive act at theShrine Circus in Syracuse on April 20th. He suffer-ed a fractured back, broken hip, shoulder and pelvis.

CATHY ENGLISH fell during a practice session inthe rehearsal bam at the Carden-Johnson winterquar-ters in Texas. She received a slight fracture of thespine and planned to return to the circus on Apr. 27.

MARTHA SUAREZ is watching the family act fromthe sidelines these days, waiting for an injured kneeto heel. In the meantime the Luvas Sisters have beenworking in the act.

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Flash!The Cincinnati Gardens (Ohio), which has housed theSyrian Shrine Circus for the past 25 years, has beensold. It has been reported that the new owners planto turn the building into a warehouse.

Ringmaster Philip Morris, said it was a sad occasionwhen he blew the whistle for the final time, markinga close to this great arena. "Almost every major cir-cus act in recent history has appeared in this magni-ficant building," Morris said.

Circus chairman Bill Welch was undecided wherethey would hold the Shrine Circus next year, but hestated they would continue to have the annual circus"even if we have to buy a tent."

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ANIMAL FAKES & FRAUDS by Peter Dance. 128pages about various manufactured ingenious hoaxeswhich have fooled the public. Includes Barnum's Fe-jee Mermaid, the Jackalope, Fur-bearing Trout, Woolbearing trees, etc.

WILD TIMES by Brian Garfield (Fiction). A storyabout Col. Hugh Cardiff, known as the "King of theCrack Shots" and star of arena shows. He was a sharpshooter, fugitive from justice, Indian fighter, actor,Buffalo hunter, pioneer movie maker, lover of wo-men, etc.

AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN FOLK ART by Fried. Anew book by the author of "History of Carousels"concentrating on Tattooing, Side Show fronts, Car-ousels and other aspects of Folk Arts.

AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT by June and Jo-seph Csida. A big book, taken mostly from the pagesof "Billboard" magazine. Covers American show bus-iness from its inception to the present day.

BLOOD & GRITS by Harry Crews. A series of 17 ar-ticles, 3 of which would interest circus fans. One isabout a man who spent his life mourning the lynch-ing of the elephant Alice.

Recently honored by being inducted into the CircusHall of Fame were: Janet May, aerialist; the OriginalWallenda Troupe (Karl, Helen and Herman Wallendaand Joe Geiger); the Mills brothers of Mills Bros. Cir-cus.

MiscellaneousThe Beatty-Cole Circus left Jackson, Miss., just priorto the closing of the last roads in that area, becauseof the flood situation.

Members of the Dutch CFA organization will visit theU.S. and Ringling-Barnum in New York this month.On May 24-30 the group will be at the Abbey Victor-ia Hotel in New York City, 7th Ave. at 51st St. (Con-tact: Alfred Van Maasakkers).

The Karl Wallenda Room at the Showfolks Club inSarasota has been completed and will soon be dedi-cated.

TOUR GROSS UP (Continued)again in January.

Light towers, ring mat and scenic drapes were pur-chased from Circus Creations of Daytona Beach, Fla.(Jimmy Douglass). Plans for a mini-spec and newwardrobe for the coming tour are already in theplanning stages.

The concession department was managed by Jackand Wilma Wrench, with Wilma providing organ mu-sic for the circus at some of its bigger dates.

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From the Show Lotby Jan Joyner

There's been a lot of parties for folks with Circus Var-gas so far this season. Then we also had our usual Eas-ter features, including an Easter Egg Hunt for thechildren. Mr. Vargas presented everyone with an Eas-ter Lily.Tim Bickmore celebrated his 18th birthday with aparty in Santa Barbara in late March.The Lantonys also had a party for Pepe, Freddie andTony's birthdays.Ruth and Little John Strong hosted a buffet dinnerfor Jan, Toby, Tim, the Herriott Family, Sr. Antonioand Bill Biggerstaff. Just prior to this we'd been at abirthday party for Wally Ross. His students at Moor-park College surprised him.At Easter time our announcer, Joe Pon's mother pas-sed away and Mr. Vargas took over the announcingchores while he was away.Sr. Antonio has returned to the show after takingBrenda home for a rest and doctoring, for a serioussinus infection.Recent visitors have included Big John and SandyStrong, Dave and Judy Twomey and Bones Craig.

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The CircusActs working the Emmett Kelly, Jr. Circus date atMillersville, Pa., on April 22nd were: Raphael andhis Poodle Revue; The Christina's, trapeze; Emmettand the Hankie gag; Billy Earl and Henrietta, vent;The Cycling Terrys, unicycles; Emmett, ball and afeather; The Christines, hand balancing; Miss Tanya,hair hang; The Vasquez Chimps; Emmett and ropegag; O'Brien & Co., slackwire; Emmett and stand onhands gag; The Knops, perch pole; Bonnie & Clyde,musical novelty; Mike La Torres and the elephant"Stonie".Nancy Kelly, was ringmistress; J. P. Grimshaw wasprop boss and Ruth McGuire assisted with props.Music was provided by the Nordmark Int'l CircusBand, directed by Leigh Ketchum.

MICKEY ROUSE, clown, has been named "good willambassador" for the city of Fayetteville, N. C.

PAUL ROYTER, the touring magician, has rejoinedthe Philip Morris organization after an absence ofseveral years. Royter will temporarily front the se-cond unit of the stage show "Space Wars" bookedby Greater American Corp., of Sarasota, Fla. Thetour will run from April 30 to June 17th.

ART BARRETT visited the Shrine Circus in Oakland,Calif., the weekend of April 27-29. He also showedthe coloring book that he and GEORGE OaOEPPOare marketing.

HARRY JENKINS, organist, celebrated his birthdayon April 24th. Harry lives in San Diego and has tour-ed with many shows and also worked at the CircusHall of Fame.

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TANGIER SHRINE CIRCUS .. by Bill Galloway

The M&M Circus Internationale continued its 1979season at Omaha, Nebr., April 17-22, for the TangierShrine Temple. The eleven performances drew goodcrowds. This was the 50th year for the circus and ex-tensive press coverage was given the show. The OmahaSunday World Herald had two full pages in the Enter-tainment section. Several TV and radio interviewswere given each day for both Omaha and CouncilBluffs stations. A parade was included in the promo-tion on Tuesday morning and M&M will return forthe 1980 circus.

Visitors included: C. C. Goodall, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.Day, Dr. Roland Gibbs, Mark Anthony and Iko Ro-binson, all CFA members.

The program line-up included: Circus overture, dir-ected by Boom Boom Browning; Spec "Holiday Hullabulu" created by Circus Creations; Jorge Barreda,lions; Mr. Sensation, aerialist; Poppino & Co., lowwire (Carlos Obando, Brenda Galloway); Displaywith The Juggling Jewels (Youngs) and the NavarroFamily, unicycles; Ethel's Leaping Greyhounds (Jen-nier); Gee Gee Engesser, liberty ponies; Clowns andthe Big Bug; Display with sword balancing, Bridget& Fifi (Ethel Jennier) and Mafalda; Perch act withthe Carlos Duo (Obando, Galloway); The Dolly Sis-ters (Navarros), aerial cradle; Jo Ann & Sunny, seal;The Great Joselito, high wire.

After intermission were: The Flying Lanes; Clownsand Big Heads; James Zoppe Family riding act; THeClowns with Acurepuncture; The Young Troupe,trampoline/teeterboard; Ceasar, the Unrideable Mule;Aerial display with 10 web girls and featuring MissAerialetta, single trapeze; Gee Gee Engesser, elephantact; The Sensational Leighs, Space Wheel.The show's staff consisted of: Grace Mclntosh andCharles Marine, producers; James Douglass, announ-cer; Boom Boom Browning, band director; Manuel

Show ReportFRANZEN BROS. ... by Almond Knight

Franzen Bros. Circus played Waverly, Tenn., on Apr.18th. They came in on Tuesday the day before andstayed until Sunday before leaving. During the lay-over they painted everything.

Wednesday night for the first show they had a fullhouse and the second show was a 3/4 house. Theyhad another show the following night with a fairturn out.The show carries 33 animals, moving it all on twosemis and one straight bed with two pick-ups pull-ing 5th wheel trailers.

The band, organ and trumpet, are next to the back-door with a beautiful set in red entrance for theanimals and performers. The show starts on time,and a program is sold.

The program included: Cat act; Plate Spinning; Pickout horse; Juggling; Llama and Camel; Magic; Train-ed goats; Tight rope; Donkey act which featuresWayne's 4 year old son; Clown and balloon; Elephant;Dogs; Balloon give away for color book winners; anda finale with 12 ponies in a liberty act.

Wayne handles all ten of the animal acts himself. AMiss Deborah who does the trapeze did not workher two acts here. Paul Niebauer is ringmaster andtrumpet player, and does the magic. The organist isPhil Shear, while Freddie is the clown.

Navarro, prop boss; Esther and Raquel, aerial direc-tors; Spec Wardrobe by Circus Creations of DaytonaBeach, Fla.

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Word received from a very reliable source states theRingling Blue date at Ft. Worth, Texas (July 12-15},has been cancelled due to a disagreement with the 'Convention Center. The open time may be added toDallas. This same source also says that advertisingfor the Moscow Circus at Ft. Worth was very light. 'The Moscow Circus will wind up its tour at Chariot- ite, N.C.

Both Barton and Campbell have mentioned thatCircus Vargas is going to a six pole top next year.But Charlie goes Billy one better by saying the bigcircus will go out on rails.

Just finished reading the book by Hans Brick TheNature of the Beast' which was a gift from Tex Drey-fus. It is well worth reading and helps to increase myadmiration of animal trainers. Hans states there areonly two kinds of tigers "dangerous and very danger-ous". The book covers training of bears, cats, hoofanimals and many other species, After reading it youwill gain some new insight and respect for those whoenter the big cage.

Dot and Cliff Day, CFA and former circus owner,have returned to their summer home in Omaha, afterspending the winter in the Valley of Texas. Theypaid a visit to Heritage Village where Bubba Vosshas 150 of his old lithos on display. They caught theM&M Circus in Omaha and said there were some top

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flnnoucementThe new address for Mr. Nino Santos Is:

Mr. Nino SantosCalle 534 Numerp IILa Canada, Valencia, Spain

As an American Citizen, Mr. Santos invites for hisconsideration, any and all offers for the remainderof the 1979 season.Please restate any recent offers that may have beensent to his old address.

acts there. The Days own the title "Cooper Bros."The German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

has issued a set of circus stamps. The four this writersaw featured a pyramid act, elephant, horse and po-lar bear. They were first released in East Berlin inSept. 1978 and the First Day covers were stampedwith a Clown Head postmark. (Ringling Red Unitprogram pictures some circus stamps of the world).

Harold Causey visited Beatty-Cole at Jackson, Miss,and says the lot was a tight one. In the evening thetent was full despite the threat of the flood. He sayshe counted 13 elephants on the show and that theyhad two spool trucks.

The St. Petersburg Times (April 2) ran a full pagestory with a drawing of Weary Willie and EmmettKelly, who was buried on that date. It was a stirringtribute to the man. A telegram sent to his wife Evi,from Red Skelton said, "I guess the angels needed alaugh."

It has been noticed by this writer that most Britishclowns are of the Auguste type, rather than whiteface, though some use the tramp make-up and somethe Charlie Chaplin style. Some use almost no makeup at all. The clown of the Moscow Circus does notuse makeup.

A note of interest to American circus authors: Thefan's magazine in Britain "King Pole" has a page de-voted to reviews of circus books. Some of the latestmentioned were Great Circus Street Parade, Logisticsof the American Circus and I Loved Rogues.A new twist from Circus Apollo who advertises "We

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Now For HireGIRL ACROBAT with dance training andshow experience - Would like to get intoan act or form an act.

Write: P. D. WHITER. D. 1 Mapleton Depot, Pa. - 17052

Phone:814-542-2322

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are not the biggest, but we are the best." They havean elephant that can carry up to eight people, what'sso unusual? Well this elephant is a mechanical onecalled "Bionic Elephant". It is full size, walks andis used to give people rides.The new CFA roster is out and one of the best

ever. It was compiled by Allen Duffield and hisstaff. Then CMB's magazine was mailed April 12thand got fast delivery, at least in the east.Father Robert A. Dagwell, Chaplain of the CFA will

be honored on May 27th with a special mass and adinner in McGehee and Dumas, Ark. The mass willcommemorate the 25th anniversary of Ordination tothe Holy Priesthood of Father Robert A. Dagwell andwill be held at St. Mary's Church in McGehee, Ark.That night at Dumas a dinner will be held. Fans fromall over the nation have been invited. This writer andhis wife will be unable to attend, but we offer ourfondest congratulations to Father "Bob" Dagwell.

Members of the Robbins Bros. Ring CMB and Har-old Barnes Tent CFA, have set up a "Circus Exhibi-tion" called "Under the Big Top" at the Springfield(Ohio) Art Center. The exhibit is being displayedApril 24 to May 13th.

BILLY BARTON (Continued)(meaning Queen in Spanish) VASQUEZ spent fourmonths in the USA with her sons. Their father is amusician with Circo Vasquez in Mexico where thereare even more Vasquez boys and girls.

DEEP WATER: RAY HARTZELL scuba dives inthe moat half-mooning the stage at Busch Gardens(Williamsburg, Va.) for relaxation and thereby hangsa waterlogged tale. Seems scuba diving yields a bonus- coins tossed in the moat by spectators. One day lastsummer as Ray bobbed up from the depths, lucre inhand, the Entertainment Director wandered by andinformed Ray that money belonged to the park.Floating in righteous indignation, Ray fixed the dir-ector with a shark-eye and rebutted coldly: "Thenlet the park go down twelve feet to get it!"

BLACK MARK: A certain Shrine Temple and itsmembers (and members' friends) set a very poor ex-ample recently when they crowded the backstagearea, at every performance, with glasses of booze andbottles of beer in hand. These imbibers also jammedthe only entrance and exit to the arena creating ha-zards for performers, animals and prop crew. If theserollickers MUST turn their annual Shrine Circus intoa neighborhood bar, it seems their carousing couldbe done in a room far removed from the public eye.Only drunks can tolerate other drunks, Shriners ornot! SEE you down the road, luvs.

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ANN and ORESTE CANESTRELLI and their horsesare with Circo Atayde in Mexico.

DANNY CASTOLDI, CHUCK CRAW, KARL KRA-USE and SCOTT FLOYD performed juggling, handbalancing and juggling, plus clown stunts for the Har-ris Co. department store circus-themed style showpresented in several Southern California cities. Book-ings were handled by Warren C. Wood & Associates.

ADEN and VELMA LOWRY, of Sedan, Kans., whoreceived national publicity this month as a result ofinterviews about their circus collection, are visitingtheir daughter and her family in Southern California.

VINCE CARMEN, illusionist on tour with the Acu-rama show in South America, is featuring the "Van-ishing Girl on the trapeze" illusion.

CARLOS and CAROL OBANDO are the parents ofa baby boy born on April 19th at Rochester, N.Y.The new arrival weighed in at 8 Ibs. and is 20 in.long. They've named him Carlos Manuel Obando II.

from John Armstrong

In your April 2nd issue, the "In Memoriam" itemabout Will Masten had one error, the statement thathe formed the Will Masten Trio in 1936. It wasmuch earlier.The week of Aug. 3, 1929,1 was one of the "Rix-fords", a hand balance and tumbling act and we wereworking in Detroit, Mich,, at the Oriole Terrace sup-per club and the Will Masten Trio were on the samebill. Their act was Will Masten, Sam Davis and SammyDavis, Jr. At the time little Sammy was announced asbeing 4 years old, but he was such a terrific perform-er we all thought he might be a 30 year old midget.Also on the bill was Johnny Sanna who did a comedyact finishing with an aero dancing routine in a mon-key suit and makeup.

So the formation of the Will Masten Trio must havebeen more like 1928 instead of 1936. Sammy, Jr. isnow 54 years old.

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division overstepped its legal authority by attemptingto regulate a contract between two private parties. Atthe heart of the association's suit is the contentionthat neither it nor the promotional organization hasever represented itself as a "Charitable Trust" or a"Charitable Organization" as defined by the statutes.The Attorney General's Office disagrees.

For many years the local Police and Fire associationshave used an out-of-state promoter and circus to raisefunds for a variety of purposes. Last December theAttorney General's office filed a suit to freeze fundsbeing raised fora Christmas Variety Show in Dayton.The Attorney General charged a major portion of thefunds being raised would go to pay expenses and onlya small percentage would go to the intended charitableprogram.

The language of the contract specifies that they willnot represent themselves as charities, says LawrencePratt, assistant attorney general. "However," he addedthe "facts on their face indicate otherwise." He citedthe solicitations used at previous times by the promo-ter. "When you ask someone to buy a ticket for some-thing like this and tell them that if they don't intendto use it a needy child will, if that's not charitable in- -tent, I don't know what is." Pratt says his office hassimilar cases against the same promoter perilling inColumbus and Toledo.

A representative from the Police Association says hisorganization has always gotten a fair share of the pro-ceeds from the circus promotion. "The show has al-ways been decent and well-run. We've been happywith what we've gotten from the shows. They've pro-vided good, clean family entertainment for this area."He said the association got $12,000 from last year'scircus promotion, but he didn't know what the totalamount was that had been taken in, nor does he knowhow many tickets were sold.

ACTSThe program to be presented by the Great All Amer-ican Youth Circus at Redlands, Calif. (May 11-19)will include: Grand Spec, Shoot-Through Ladder,Circus Acrobatics, Single Trapeze, Rolling Globes,Side-by-Side Trapeze, Trampoline and Double MiniTramp, Cloud Swing, Clowns at King Arthur's Court,Balance Perch, Artistic Bicycle, Webs, Teeterboard,Intermission, Double Wide Low Casting, Hand Bal-ancing, Tight Wire, Cradle, Clowns, Cannon, GermanGym Wheel, Juggling, Double Cradle (advanced aer-ial), Unicycle (Beginning, Advanced), Multiple Trap-eze, Flying Trapeze.

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GARY FRANK, who manages the CHUCK JONESMagic Enterprises, works as Chuck's second unit toplay shopping centers, fairs and industrial shows.

CHARLIE BENNETT, Jr. reports he visited Carson& Barnes Circus at Arkansas City, Kans., on April24th, where the show played to near capacity houses.

RICHIARDI's Magic Show in New York City wasclosed last month when the tax collector padlockedthe theatre.

DINO & ANITA, tightwire stars, have been asked toappear at the Monte Carlo Circus Festival at the endof the year.

KARL arVSHEILAWINN, high wire acts; BILLYBARTON, aerialist; LANI IRONBERG, pony/dogs;LAWRENCE GRANT, wild animals and BOB-0 theClown have been signed to appear with the ShrineCircus in San Francisco the weekend of May 4-6.

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H A L H A V I L A N D S e z :CHARLIE VAN BUSKIRK of the wonderful Cy-

clonian unicvcle act relaxes between shows by hunt-ing ducks in the lake country of central New YState You might say he combines sport with necisity, his hunting activities fighting inflationary ftprices for his large family.

Charlie's hunting dogs are the smartest. He has 3and each one watches a different lake for duckway they tell him about ducks on each lake is super,too.

One day hit first dog found Charlie and tappethis paw once. "That means one duck on that dogslake" Pretty soon the second dog found Charlie andtapped his paw twice. "That means two ducks onthat dog's lake." Then, the third dog showed up witha stick in his mouth, shaking his head. Immediately,Charlie grabbed his gun and started for the lake, Igoing hunting, that means more ducks than you cashake a stick at."

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