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Museum's Wagons GoneAfter years of bitter negotiations, Ringiing-Barnurn has successfully reclaimed ownership of seven circus

wagons that have been at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota for some 20 years. The museum reportedly hadno title rights saying they owned the wagons and the circus charged the wagons had only been on loan tothe museum.

Officials at the museum rescued the wagons about 20 years ago when, along with many other old circusitems, they were scheduled to be destroyed. Joseph McKennon, circus author and historian, helped to re-store the old wagons, along with many other volunteers. He said "they were just going to burn them up"when the museum rescued them.

In 1972, circus officials decidedthey wanted the wagons back. Itwas then that they claimed thewagons were only out on a long-term loan arrangement.

Rather than enter into a long andbitter lawsuit, the two sides madean agreement to sit down and di-vide up the wagons. The museumwas represented by J oe McKen-non, while the circus was repre-sented by Chappie Fox.

They took turns at making theirselections and the museum hadthe first choice. As a result theywere able to keep the "FiveGraces" wagon, seven other wa-gons and two chariots.

The circus took the Bell Wagon,the Hagenbeck-Wallace Lion'sBride wagon, the Gladiator andLion wagon, the AnniversaryTableau wagon, Harncssmaker'swagon No. 76, Commissary Wa-gon No. 24, an unrestored cage

wagon and two clown fire trucks.

Circus attorney Jerry Sowalskysaid he was not at liberty to dis-close what the circus planned todo with the wagons. However,he did admit that circus officialshad discussed using some of thewagons at their Circus WorldPark in Florida.

Sowalsky said the museum hadacquired all the wagons back in

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BENTLEY BROS. CIRCUS(Continued from last week's issue)

The show's performance at Johns-town, Pa. (Sept. 15-16) ran just overtwo hours with an intermission.Young Jorge Barreda's outstandinglion act was the curtain raiser. Hisentire act with eight lions, seven ofwhich are full-maned, is innovativewith a touch of bright comedy in apackage that is just the right length.Noteworthy is the "dray" of lionsfanning in a circle • quite difficult totrain. Barreda set the show off to abrisk pace and ringmaster TommyBentley maintained that pace throu-ghout.So much has already been said aboutthe widely acclaimed Joselito highwire act that very little can be addedexcept a professional opinion thatthis young, unique, original, perfor-mer is one of the absolute best everseen. Highlights include the heart-stopping Olympic cartwheel and theoriginal uni-wheel.A polished performance was handedin by the young Winn Brothers (Mikeand John, sometimes Karl) in a criss-cross incline walk. The troupe returnsat the show's finale with an aerialmotorcycle. Mike Winn also solos asAdolpho with a pyramiding chairbalance routine.Tight wire acts come and go, but Her-bie Weber, in his sixties, remains theundisputed king, is in fact not only alegend but a phenomenon. Nimble offoot, the intrepid veteran is an astuteshowman who always "grabs" the au-dience. His clever fake fall has becomea classic. A charming ingredient in theLos Latino wire act is the continueduse of the stylish and traditional whiteumbrella. Herbie encored with a sen-sational foot slide, the last of its kind.

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The Zerbini Riding Act is unusuallyacrobatic. Mario solos with four som-ersaults in quick succession in a singlecircle of the ring, full twister horseto horse, over and under somesaultthrough a hoop (passing his brotherhorse to horse), and somersault fromhis brother's shoulders to horse. Thehorse to horse somersault, usuallyfeatured, is a throwaway openingroutine.

The brothers appeared earlier with afast, funny knock-about act. Othercomedy was offered by Adele andGory, gorilla parody, and by a trio ofclowns, John MacKay, David Chabiraand Bruce Wamer, with first a giraf-fe jargo, followed by a baseball rou-tine and an updated hair growinggag-The Vasquez have come into theirown with an excellent and stunningflying act featuring 14 year old Mi-guel catching a triple. All are goodlooking, clean flyers, graceful in theair and on the board. They alsomake an impressive entrance.The Smaha's Lipizzan Stallions ringdown the first half with their alwayssuperior horsemanship, performedwith panache. Solo routines are su-perb, featuring the capriole. Regis-tering well was Chester Cable, footjuggling a 150 Ib. table Impressiveprop. Good act. The Dionne Troupehas added lighted props to a neatbalancing act, appeared also with ashoulder perch featuring a free handbalance and one arm stand. Othergood numbers included five trapezeacts working simultaneously, groundmelange of juggling, teeterboard andbalancing, finishing together as alldisplays should, but rarely do.The Kaye Hollywood Elephants, pre-sented by the DeWaynes, came onnext to closing, working well aftertheir recent tragic accident in June.Omitted because of an overlong pro-gram was the maypole opening pro-duction and a neck slide-for-life. My-Immba's Baboons, scheduled for theTexas dates, could only play threeearly spots.Show Staff: Tommy Bentley, execu-tive director; Charles Clancy, generalmanager; Harriet Wagner, secretary/

BLOOD FOR CHIMP

In what is believed to be the first ofits kind, a graduate student of theUniversity of Oklahoma (Norman)donated blood for a 3 week of chimpat the University's Institute of Pri-mate Studies.Mel Allen provided his own blood tosave the chimp, Zeb, a 2 Ib. 2 oz. ba-by chimp whose blood volume hadfallen dangerously low.

Book"THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL,THE ELEPHANT PROBLEM"byJohn Hanks, published by Mayflowerat $14.95.This slim volumne, despite an unpre-possessing dust jacket, tells just abouteverything that is known about theAfrican elephant. It destroys mythswhile emphasizing how little still isknown about the world's largest landmammal.

BOB KEESHAN, TV's Captain Kan-garoo, worked as a studio guide andthen as Clarabelle the Clown on theHowdy Doody Show before startinghis own children's show.

promotions; Jim MacGregor, trans-portation; Chester Cable, supt.; Mi-guel Lamas, concessions; Virginia LeeFenton and Chuck Gomes, music;John MacKay, Bruce Warner, produ-cing clowns; Herbie Weber, floss, andChuck Clancy, lighting. Promotersare Ray Herrara, Bill Moulton, TonyChavez, Steve Gill and Tom Page.

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SHOW DATESBeatty-Cole Circus

Oct. 8-10 Greenville, SC11-14 Augusta, Ga.

Big John Strong's CircusOct. 8 Lakeport, Calif.

9 Fort Bragg10 Cloverdale11 Ukiah12 Napa13 Gilroy14 Marina

Garden-Johnson CircusOct. 9 Victoria, Texas

Circus of the Stars (Filming)Oct. 13-15 Las Vegas, Nev.

Circus Vargasto Oct. 11 Decatur, Ga.Oct. 12-14 Huntsville, Ala.

Gil Gray CircusOct. 5-21 Dallas, Texas

Great American CircusOct. 8 Rock Springs, Ga.

9 Calhoun11 Forsyth12 Vidalia13 Swainsboro

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Hoxie Bros. CircusOct. 8 Pascagoula, Miss.

9 Pearl River, La.10 Springfield11 Breaux Bridge12 Mamou13 Abbeville14 New Iberia

Ringling-Barnum • Blue UnitOct. 9-21 Detroit, Mich.

Ringling-Barnum- Red Unitto Oct. 14 Denver, Colo.

Royal Lichtenstein CircusOct. 10 Cahokia, III.

11 Edwardsville12-13 St. Louis, Mo.

TNT & Royal OlympicOct. 9-13 Bowling Green, Ky

Texas Shrine Circusto Oct. 14 Houston, Texas

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Prt Miller - Magic Time USAOct. 8 Havre, Montana

10 Sidney11 Miles City12 Dickinson, N. D.14 Aberdeen

Tom Ogden - MagicianOct. 12 Fleetwood, Pa.

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Century 21 Shows- Red UnitOct. 8-14 Meridian, Miss.

Oisco FeverOct. 8 Ft. Myen, Fla.

9 W. Palm Beach10 Ft. Pierce11 Melbourne12 Orlando13 Daytona Beach

James H. Drew ExpositionOct. 8-13 Monroe, Ga.

Ethel's Leaping Greyhoundsto Oct. 13 Minneapolis, Minn

Ice Capades • Cont'l UnitOct. 9-10 Billings, Mont.

12-14 Rapid City, S.D.

Ice Capades - Eastern UnitOct. 9-14 Springfield, Mass.

Ice Capades - Western UnitOct. 10-14 Ft. Worth, Texas

Los Latinos - Wire ActOct. 5-21 Dallas, Texas

Mighty Thomas ShowsOct. 9-14 Angleton, Texas

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I WAS typing at my desk, thinkingwhat a dull day it was, when a car andAirstream pulled into my driveway. Atfirst I thought someone was lost untilI recognized ARDEN and NORBERT.They had encountered CARLA WAL-LENDA and her circus troupe (en-route south to play schools with theshow) at a gas station not two milesfrom my house. They tried to call butfound I have an unlisted number, soArden and Norbert, who'd been at myhouse many years ago, found theirway back to visit. Meanwhile Cariaand her troupe continued on.

ARDEN and NORBERT are withthe National Company of Holiday OnIce and were traveling from Glen Falls(NY) to Wheeling. Their tour consistsof 46 weeks, closing June 1st with amonth's engagement at Mexico City.The Mexican date is the only one outof the U. S., other than the QuebecCity date already played. They gave

•me the news from the three ice showspurchased this year by the Felds.

THEIR unit travels on 5 semis, 2concession semis, 18 privately owned5th wheels and 5 other private units.The show has a "trailer club" whichcosts $10 to join and then a $1 perdate; also $25 for a special light hook-up. This does not include the price topark at the buildings! Arden observedthat if one does not join one gets nolights, no conversation, no parking.Perhaps of the two Arden can dowithout the "no talking" is not oneof them!

FELDS took over all three ice shows(two companies of Holiday plus IceFollies) when all three were losing mil-lions every year. They are promotingthe show as they do Ringling, doingmatinees, and have flashed up the un-its. Designer DON FOOTE was calledin to revamp the less than sparklingwardrobe. Felds also insisted the girlswear more glamorous makeups. Inthis they're right. Audiences don'tfork out good money to see the girlor boy next door. They can stay at

home and do that.BIZ is on the increase owing to the

promotion but the skaters are not us-ed to the new grind and are unhappywith a new contract which stipulates12 shows a week instead of the pre-vious 9. I can't waste sympathy. Wecircus performers would be overjoy-ed with such a contract which also in-cludes hospitalization, other benefitsand unemployment compensation!

CIRCUS VARGAS is headed eastand will play Atlanta in late OctoberWhether this signals a return visit toFlorida is guesswork but at any rateit's the farthest east Cliff has broughthis show in nearly two years.

TOMMY HANNEFORD, who tookdelivery of Circus Girard from GER-ARD SOU LES at Belmont (0) Sept.1st, is having the equipment refurbis-hed and the show will then be placedin storage until next year. He is ex-pected to add equipment to the showIndications are he has a "uniqueidea" to promote it. One should hopeso. Two units under the same manage-ment are finding it rough going thesedays, especially with rising expenses.It seems hard enough to keep oneunit afloat!

BOB REED, who worked in the oldDobritch office for years and whowas for 7 years my business manager,has bought apartment buildings in L.A.; this in addition to his chain ofclothing stores!

CLOSEUPS: Globetrott ing FRANKCURRY spends more time in airplanesthan he does on the ground. Frank,whose promotional activities includesuch diverse interests as promotingthe ROLLING STONES at the Gar-den, dabbles in the circus as a hobby.He started out his career, believe it ornot, as a rodeo clown.. .BILL andTRUDY are back at their farm play-ing farmers-in-the-dell for a spell...GERARD SOULES with Royal Hanneford.. .PEGGY FLEMING guest-star-red with Holiday on Ice in NY.. BIL-LY POWELL is one of the Ringling

promoters on that unit.. .HUBLERset for an 8 day tour in the east inlate Nov.. .MARINELAND at NiagaraFalls expanding its facilities.. .SANDYand MICHELE DOBRITCH droveBARBARA MOORE's Cadillac fromUtah to deliver it personally at BuschGardens in Virginia. They caught Cir-cus Vargas out west enroute to San-dy's date at Wayne.. .Business for theWayne date was off this year. Sponsorchanged the dates to conflict with La-bor Day and the Michigan State Fair.Odds are they'll reinstate the old playdates next year!.. .1 don't know howthose rumors got started that BETHis not with the JAMES ZOPPE RID-ERS because the rumors are false...

Other galloping tidbits: the ZAM-PERLAS are in Texas, the ZERBI-NIS go to Castle next year and theZOPPE ARABIAN RIDERS set forHanneford's double dates.. .IANGARDEN, Jr. debuted with his fa-ther's liberty horses at the ColumbusFair. Am told he did a good job...AXEL will have the elephants on theRingling Blue unit next year whileBUCKLES and BARBARA return toCircus World.. .Organist STAN LEYFRIEDBURG playing dates for Em-men Kelly, Jr.. .Producer ED MIG-LEY reportedly propping a majorshowcase date preparatory to a longroute of collage dates in 1980.1 hopeso! He has a beautiful show and itshould be seen.. .JORGE BARREOAplays the Maine dates next season andthe Medinah Temple.. .HERBIE WE-BER says he's never going to retireand I believe him - wish I had his en-ergy! .. .Clown RICK LEGG subbedfor Clown JOHN MacKAY on theHanneford Family Circus when MacKay fulfilled commitments with theBentley Bros.. .WALT KING drop-ped some poundage, looks good ...PETER LUVAS had a blowdownwith his circus in Texas.. .the ARIAbear act stayed over to help sew thetent back together.

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RETRACING HISTORYby Sabu

Two circus elephants, in an Americanled expedition, recently completedtheir hazardous journey across theAlps, retracing the march made some2197 years ago by Hannibal and hisarmy, with 37 elephants.It was believed to be the first timesince 218 B.C. that elephants havemade the crossing on foot, althoughhistorians do not agree on Hannibal'sexact route.There were fresh loaves of bread wait-ing for the elephants, Rangoon andCeylan, as they plodded into the Cla-rea Valley at an altitude of 3930 ft.

Residents of Giaglone, a mountainvillage midway between Susa, 40 mi.west of Turin, and the French borderwelcomed the expedition, which thencamped overnight before marching in-to Susa for an elaborate celebration.The elephants descended into thevalley along a sheer path from the8150 ft. Col du Clapier, the highestpeak on the route. It is on the French•Italian border.Dante Newman, the circus owner whoaccompanied his elephants on thetrip, told reporters, "If I had knownwe had to take the elephants up anddown such dangerous paths I wouldnever had started."The group, led by Jack Wheeler, ofLos Angeles, started the re-enactmentat the French town of Bramans.Also taking part in the trip were Jac-queline Vial-King, Wheeler's fianceeand a former Folies Bergere dancerwho was given three roses by the val-ley's reception committee; a Los Ang-eles businessman and Newman's son.Hannibal, commander of the Cartha-ginian army and military archrival ofancient Rome, set out from Africa,traveled up the Iberian Peninsulaand crossed the Alps with his ele-phants, 20,000 infantrymen and6000 cavalry to begin a 15 yr. cam-paign up and down Italy in the Se-cond Punic War. The elephants gavehim crucial tactical superiority overthe Roman soldiers who seldom hadseen the animals before.

KEN and BRENDA RINK, the newlyweds who were married under theCircus Vargas big top, have been do-ing promotion for that show in Bea-umont, Texas.

DORIAN BLAKE, illusionist, work-ed the full run of the Great DanburyFair at Danbury, Conn., Sept. 29 toOct. 8th.

TEX MAYNARD and his drums played the Emmett Kelly Circus at theNew York State Fair, then Tex andMary worked the Grotto Circus forGeorge Hubler at Rochester.NY, onSept. 15th.

DICK FLINT, CHS vice president,will be working for the SmithsonianInstitute, concentrating on circusand amusement exhibits.

ALBERT and JEANETTE RlXandtheir bears are working the Shrinedates in Texas. Also working thosedates are the KNEISLEY DUO (Billand Donna Bannister).

The difficulties encountered by New-man's trained elephants raised manynew questions concerning the routestaken by Wheeler and Hannibal.(In 1957, an English engineer namedJohn Hoyte borrowed Jumbo, a fe-male Indian elephant from the zoo atTurin, Italy, to follow Hannibal'sroute thru the Alps. In Hoyte's partywere two English girls, a veterinarian,a Burmese student and an Italian ma-hout.The expedition tried Clapier Passfirst because John Hoyte thoughtit tallied best to the early historiesof the ecent. They had to turn backbecause of landslides that had nar-rowed the paths so that the elephantcould not fit on them.Hoyte then decided to negotiate theMount Cenis route which Napoleonhad used to invade Italy. The expe-dition had no trouble with this routeand completed the trip without inci-dent.The expedition started at Montmellanand finished up at Susa).

CITY SEEKS MONEY

City officials at Niagara Falls, (NY)and an attorney for the Imperial Lip-izzan Stallions, Ltd., are meeting inan effort to reach an agreement aboutmoney owed the city on an unfulfil-led contract. The city reportedly isseeking $10,000 in unpaid incomefrom the show's summer engagementin that city.The horse show opened in late Julyand closed about a month later dueto poor business.According to terms of the contractlease, the show owners were to paythe city $1,000 per week for 10weeks, plus 5% of the show's grossincome in excess of $100,000.The horse show had considered thesummer performances, presented ina temporary arena, as a possible pre-lude to a permanent downtown Ni-agara Falls location. It had been pro-posed that a $10 million permanenthome could be built there. Accord-ing to news reports this possibilitystill exists.Because the show was unable to openfor the July 4th holiday as planned,the original lease was rewritten toamend those dates. A corporationlawyer said the amended lease wasnever returned to his office. How-ever, city officials said, "the oralagreement is sufficient for the cityto take action."

MiscellaneousThe Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas has shutdown its showroom so work can starton a new $15 million facility. Thenew room will include the area that isnow being used to store scenery andother equipment.It will take about 18 months to com-plete the construction work. An allnew stage show is already underwayin preparation for the new show roomopening late next year.

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Kaichi Namba by JIM PARKER

There are many wonderful people inthe circus world; and it is with deepregret that we leam one of these fineperformers has passed on to the BigLot.

Very few youngsters in the businessnowadays have probably heard thename of Kaichi Namba, as he belongsto the "Golden Era" of the circus. Itis out of respect for him and those ofhis era, those very few left, that thissmall tribute is written.

Kaichi was an orphan in Japan andwas adopted by the Namba troupe aswas the custom in those days amongshow people, and thus became a mem-ber of a large Japanese acrobatic/tum-bling group at the age of seven.

In the early 1900's the troupe cameto America. During the Chicago WorldFair, Kaichi witnessed a man goingdown a set of steps oh his head andthe idea occurred to him that if a per-

son could go down steps on his headthen it would be possible for a personto go up steps on his head. Whenever,he could, he praciced, continuing forthree years, until he broke away fromthe troupe and presented his act onhis own, as the only man in the worldwho could go up and down steps onhis head.

The shows that Kaichi has been onreads like a history book: Gollmar,Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sells Floto, TomMix, Sparks, Ringling-Bamum andmany more. Much of the time Kaichiappeared with large tumbling or acro-batic troupes and because of his smallsize he usually was the top mounterin the pyramid.Kaichi had three shows that were veryclose to him - Tom Mix, Sparks underCharlie Sparks and Ringling-Bamum.

Just prior to the beginning of WorldWar II, Kaichi was appearing at the

Winter Garden in Berlin and whilethere he failed to rise and salute witha Heil Hitler upon the entry of Ger-man soldiers/officers. They approach-ed him in an angry manner and Kaichitold me that he put on his politest Ja-panese smile and bowed deeply fromthe waist and pretended in typical"hooligan" manner that he did notunderstand a word that was beingsaid. Fortunately, for him, they be-lieved him, not realizing that thislittle Japanese gentleman was com-pletely pro-American.

Like so many things that happen andwhich we cannot account for, Kaichiwas interned during the War in a con-centration camp in Australia. Becauseof his English speaking ability he soonbecame an interpreter for the powersthat be and as a result he was giventhe full run of the camp.

It was here that he met his lovely wifeHam. She is also Japanese, was bomand raised in Indonesia and was inter-ned in Australia during the war. Shedoes not have a show business back-ground and little Kaichi finally wonher over, with many gifts of Americanchewing gum.

After the war Kaichi returned to theU. S. and continued to be a perform-er, appearing for many seasons as acenter ring attraction with Ringling-Bamum. As the years passed and agecame upon him, Kaichi was no long-er the center ring feature, but heworked with Paul Jung in clown al-ley. Kaichi never put on grease paintbut was the man behind the scenesand worked clown props, includingworking the Tire in the old firehousegag. Upon reaching social securityage, and much to the surprise of hisfamily, Kaichi returned to his belov-ed Japan and lived near Yokohama.During the years after the war, Kai-chi's wife returned to Japan and fre-quently Kaichi would make trips tosee her, always returning to the U.S.and the Ringlingshow.Haru and her three sons lived veryfrugal for they always felt that at anytime Kaichi would send for them asthey all wanted to come to the U. S,become citizens and settle down in

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CIRCUS TIME IN CHILE

During the month of September threecircuses played in Santiago, the capi-tal city of Chile. The shows were playing there in conjunction with the na-tion's Independence Day celebration.The three shows were:LAS AGUILAS HUMANAS - said tobe the oldest circus in Latin Americaand currently celebrating its 40th an-niversary. It is owned by Sergio Ven-turino and while in Santiago played ina building, but otherwise plays in atent

Hugo Veniurino has a show withoutwild animals, which he says peoplecan see on television. "Shows withanimals are old-fashioned," he adds.Today's children, he says, are intothe age of "Superman."

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ITAUANO TIANNI CIRCUS • Own-ed by Hugo Venturino, a brother ofthe above mentioned Sergio. This cir-cus is now in its second year and op-erates under a big top. Their advertis-ing carries a lot of American type lay-outs and designs.

THE GREAT FRANKFORT CIRCUS- This show was new to the area andat the time this report was written al-most nothing was known about thecircus.

ALBERT LUCAS, juggler; JEAN-PIERRE ROMANO, clown andPELUZA, clown, are featured withthe western unit of Ice Capades. Theshow's musical director is JOHNMOLINARI.

DAR ROBINSON, stuntman, leapedoff the Canadian Pacific Tower atToronto last month as part of a stuntfor an upcoming movie. He free-fellfrom the 1,150 ft. level of the towerfor six seconds before gliding downwith a parachute.

A parade of the world's finest collec-tion of old circus wagons has beenscheduled for the streets of Baraboo,Wise., next summer. The announce-ment was made late last month byCircus World Museum officials whosaid it would be the first major par-ade of the museum's wagons since itlast participated in the annual July 4parade at Milwaukee.Museum director William Schultz ex-pects the parade will bring somethinglike 50,000 people to Baraboo. Theparade will be held on Saturday, July5th, with a time and route to be an-nounced later.Plans for the parade were confirmedwhen the Wisconsin Historical SocietyBoard of Curators agreed to the idea.Some $50,000 has been budgeted forthe parade. Work is now underway inan effort to get teams of horses foreach of the old circus wagons.

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Buckles the Clownby JAMIE S .JENKINSFeature writer for the Vindicator(Reprinted from the YoungstownDaily Vindicator, Youngstown, Oh.,Sept. 21, 1979)

Imagine being only 18 years old andalready having achieved your dream!That's the enviable accomplishmentof Dan Buckley, son of Mr. and Mrs.Anthony Buckley, 210 GrandviewAve., New Castle, Pa., who, since lastMarch has been living his dream - asBuckles the Clown of the Clyde Beat-ty-Cole Bros. Circus.Back in Clown Alley in the nick oftime to make-up for the Thursdayafternoon performance - he'd been"home" for his mom's spaghetti andmeatballs and a visit to McConnellsMills State Park - Dan tells us how hemade his longtime dream a reality."Red Skelton has always been myidol," Dan confides, applying thefirst layer of paint to his face, "andI've always done a little clowningaround - 1 like to make people laughand be happy."I auditioned when the circus washere last year but by winter I hadn'theard anything so I tracked down the'Boss Clown', Jimmy James at Columbus, Ga., and telephoned him."I guess he decided I was really ser-ious and sent me an application - andtwo weeks later, on March 26,1 wason my way to Panama City, Fla., tojoin the circus!"

For the first few days of his new ca-reer, Dan learned how to apply hisnew face and performed in "cover-ups" - "like being the rear end of ahorse costume" - but it didn't takehim long to become a seasoned per-former and to work out his ownroutines as well as working with theother clowns.

Was he scared or nervous that firsttime on his own? "Heck no - 1 wasjust excited!"Dan knows he'll never make a fortunebeing a clown - but it's what he wantsto do and he's good at what he's do-

ing because he's happy doing it. Andeven at 18 - he'll be 19, Oct. 8 - he'slearned that money isn't the answerto everything. So well does Dan likehis work he's already signed up fornext year.

BUCKLES THE CLOWN

The youngest of seven children, Danis a 1978 graduate of Union HighSchool. "He was on the football andbaseball teams but he spent most ofhis time on the bench and I couldn'tfigure out why he 'made' the teams,"his mother said."He said it was because he kept every-one happy with his clowning! He's al-ways been a cheerful boy - never anytrouble - and if this is what he wants,it's fine with us. He could be doing alot worse," she said.Ironically, Mrs. Buckley never reallyliked circuses but she's revising heropinions now that Dan is part of one.Dan has been able to see his "real"family two other times since the sea-son began, once when the circus wasplaying Akron and again when it wasin Washington, Pa. At first, he admits,he was a little homesick - he'd neverbeen away from hom before • but hewas so warmly welcomed by his newfamily in the circus that the twingessoon disappeared.Dan - or Buckles - can b°. seen severaltimes during each session of the circuswhich is at Southern Park Mall thruSun Jay, and even though his friendsmight not recognize him he's still the

JEAN and CATARINA MICHON leftLos Angeles, Oct. 5th, flying to Italywhere he will train a group of eleventigers for an Italian circus.

BOBBY HOCHUM flew in from Lon-don to join Circus Vargas at Houstonand is now presenting his cloud swingact in the show's performance.

BRIDGET BALLANTINE, aerialist atCircus Circus in Las Vegas, has closedthere and has returned to Florida.

CLIFF VARGAS recently returned tothe States after visiting several Europ-ean shows including: Circus Merano,Circus Althoff, Circus Knie, CircusArnardo, Circus Berny, Circus Kroneand the Blackpool Tower Circus.

HARRY BAKER, juggler, would en-joy hearing from friends. You canwrite him at: 1829 No. Center St.,Stockton, Calif.

JIM S W A F F O R D is flying to Houstonfor a vacation and a visit to the TexasShrine Circus. Enroute home he plansto visit the set of the "Circus of theStars" show in Las Vegas.

BENZINE, Mr. GWINN and SQUE-EKY, Southern California clowns,presented clown and magic showsfor children of Burbank, Calif., lastmonth in recognition of "The Yearof The Child."

DR. DAVID REID, of Lebanon, Ore.was featured in a full page story withpictures, in the Albany (Ore.) Demo-crat on Sept. 24th. The article toldabout Dr. Reid's interest in the circusand of his many friends under thebig top.

ETHEL JENNIER and her LeapingGreyhounds taped a segment of theCanadian TV show "Circus" thenworked dates in both Canada and theU. S., as well as appearing on the Bo-zo TV Show in Chicago.

same happy clown he's always been -only better and funnier and happier.

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FOR SALEBook "AMERICAN CIRCUS POS-TERS" by Chappie P. Fox. - Colorfulcollection of old circus posters.

$6.95Plus 59c Postage and 50c Insurance

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THE GREAT JARVISby Art "Doc" Miller

Not many performers started out asprofessionals as early as Forrest Jar-vis. While still in grade school, he us-ed to bicycle to the surrounding WestVirginia coal mining hamlets and therewould "sell" his act for a supper timemagic show.When playing these dates he carriedhis magic equipment in his handle barbasket. These nickel and dime perfor-mances earned him enough money tolater purchase professional tricks and

a berth on several tent shows, includ-ing the famous Spaun Family Showof Ohio fame.This was good schooling and soon hewas appearing in the skits as a regularactor. He even had a few stints withUncle Tom's Cabin and the Majesticshow boat. From there he went onto spend summers with Sam Dockand the theatrical seasons on the GusSun Vaudeville circuit.Having saved enough money from thisventure he blossomed out with a siz-able stage show using a dozen or moreperformers. This popular show becamevery well known all over the easternstates.Thanks to his thrifty wife, Louise,they owned out-right eighteen hicktown week-end movie houses, onlyto have the over night popularity ofTV completely kill this hoped-for re-tirement side line.During the years the Ashland Oil Co.,presented employee shows over a widearea of states, he was in charge of thetented affairs and the entertainmentwas strictly a magic show.Later he owned large illusion side

WANTEDCopy of "The White Tops" No. 3for May-June 1977. Write statingprice and condition.

BYRON WALKERBox 3186, San Leandro, Ca. 94578

shows on Penn Premier, Kirland, etc.,and with vaudeville and stage businessnothing but history, he handled book-ings and press. His last show being theThomas Joyland outfit.Rather a heart-break phone call, wliilehe lay in a hospital, was word fromBlackstone to come to New York andwork as a team on an entirely new typeof big illusion show.That heart attack and the passing ofhis most loyal wife, ended his troupingcareer. He now resides in quiet retirement in Huntington, W. Va., with hisson Bob, who is also a performer.

MiscellaneousThe Pickle Family Circus gave fourperformances in Oakland, Calif., twoon Sept. 29 and two on Sept. 30th.

WASHINGTON TUBBS II

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NAMES in the |REV. AUSTIN MILES has complet-ed work on 12 radio spot ads (or theDavis Furniture Co., in which he doesseven voices.

DAVE CAESAR, known as "Back-door Dave" on the Ringling Red Un-it, has been the subject of several na-tional news stories since the showplayed California. Dave was a form-er booker for rock groups in the mu-sic industry.

RUTH and ELEK SEBESTYN willbe doing the "Circus of Stars" showthis month, followed by dates inOregon after which they go to CircoAtayde in Mexico for 14 weeks.

CIRCUS WAGONSthe 1950's under an "indefinite termloan."Not all of the wagons loaned to themuseum were in poor condition, hesaid. "There was some right on bothsides of the misunderstanding," headded."The settlement reflected that. Ev-erybody felt it was a fair compro-mise.""There was a misunderstanding thatdeveloped over that period with re-spect to who owned the wagons,"he said.Under terms of the settlement themuseum has gained title to all theremaining wagons that were givento it.

JOHN WHITFIELD, former talentagent and a Sarasota accountant, re-ports he is spending his second sea-son in a working partnership manag-ing food concessions for SHIRLEYBARTON on the Murphy Bros. Midway. Mrs. Barton is the wife of BUZBARTON, well known as the "iceman" who deals in quality jewelryfor members of the entertainmentindustry.Upon his return to Sarasota in lateNovember, John will resume his en-tertainment taxation practice andaccounting services for the circus in-dustry. Inquiries can reach him at:P. 0. Box 2633, Sarasota, Fla.

By Crane

REWARDfor information of the whereabouts of

ARCHIE CHANFormer drummer with:

King Bros., Clyde Bros., Ringling-Barnum, Ice Shows, Etc.

Contact:

BOB SNOWDEN

Route 1 - Box 118

Richmond Hill, Georgia - 31324

Archie, if you read this contact me immediately and avoid embarrassment

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WANTEDIKADLE RIGGING

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AUTHOR'S TRIP

Circus author and critic David LewisHammarstrom departed on Sept. 30for the Soviet Union, where he willbegin research for a book about theMoscow State Circus. The celebratedartistry of the Russian Circus perfor-mers, their dazzling artistic innova-tions and their rise to internationalprominence, are the subjects to beexplored.Official invitation to make the tripwas extended by Mr. A. Kolevatov,General Manager of Soviet Circuses.Moscow's Institute of Fine Arts willlend additional assistance. Hammar-strom will visit circus companies andinterview key personnel in the citiesof Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Od-essa. He also expects to tour theMoscow Circus School.Meanwhile, Hammarstrom's firstbook, "Behind the Big Top" is nowin the final preparation stages at A.S. Barnes for publication next March.The tome takes a gutsy behind-the-scenes look at famous American cir-cus personalities and the strugglesthey have endured to keep the showon the road. Text will be lavishly il-lustrated with over three hundredphotographs. Noted circus authorand publicist F. Beverly Kelley pen-ned the foreward.

A special circus-themed show wasproduced by Bill Kourmpates for theInnisbrook Country Club, at TarponSprings, Fla. on Sept. 25th.Circus acts featured in the show wereJo Ann Jennicr, aerialist; Pedro Mor-ales, foot juggling; Danny Chapmanwith Hogan and a midget, two dogs;Bob Jerome (Sad Sack Clown); plusMake-up Artists for Waitresses andWaiters in clown make-up. ClownAlfredo Landon also appeared in theevening program.

In MemoriamHARRY OTTO GRASSELLE (98),retired magician and juggler, died atKansas City, Mo. on Aug. 21st. Hisshow business career started as a veryyoung boy, working in a circus as anaerialist. Later his magic and jugglingacts were featured on vaudeville cir-cuits and in 1978 he was elected tothe Magic Museum in Hollywood.Survivors include his wife, Gwen anda son, Howard.

Important circus pieces bearing Ham-tnarstrom's by-line have appeared inshow journals throughout the world.He is a contributor to such publica-tions as Variety and The ChristianScience Monitor. In recent years heheld the position of National PressRepresentative for James Bros. Circusand later for the George MatthewsGreat London Circus.

AVAILABLE- NOW -

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P. 0. Box 1167, Concord, NC 28025

Phone: 704 - 786 - 4563

LALLA ROOKH GROTTO CIRCUSby Bill Galloway

The 1979 Lalla Rookh Grotto Circuswas produced for the fourth year byGeorge Hubler. The best attendancewas for the 2 p.m. show on Saturday,Sept. 15th, with somewhat smallercrowds for the 4 and 8 p.m. perfor-mances on the one day stand.Visitors at the show included CHSVice President Dick Flint and CFAFrank Howard.Show line-up: Clown come-in; Over-ture; Announcements; Acrobats bythe Charles (Gutis); Web, Miss Diana(Yoxall); Clowns with MechanicalMan gag; One finger stand by KarenNyce; Miss Donna Bannister, singletrapeze; Clowns with the Magic Knot;Albert and Jeanette Rix, bears; Inter-mission; Clowns with chair gag; Illu-sions presented by Roy Huston; TheClowns with Flip Flop; The GutisFamily, comedy; Clowns and the bal-loon; The Kneisley Duo, aerial cradle.Staff: George Hubler, producer/an-nouncer; Dennie Pinson, Jr.. props;Tex Maynard, drums; Marcie May-nard, organ.Clown Alley consisted of: Bill Vau-ghn and Bubba Hastings.

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FOR SALEA LOT OF HARD TO FIND CIRCUSBOOKS AND POSTERS.Send Stamped, Self-Addressed LegalEnvelope for List.

ARTHUR V. CARR6402 North 12th Street

Philadelphia, Penna. -19126

H A L H A V I L A N D SEZ . . .HARRY BLACKSTONE, founder ofthe Blackstone Magic Show, was a funloving showman in the days when thebest local merchants had businessesflourishing around the downtowntheatres where he appeared as thestar of his own traveling extravagan-za.If there was a men's hat shop nearbyhe'd drop in and usually needed nointroduction. The request usuallywas: "Do us a trick."And, Harry would usually complywith an excellent routine of cardtricks finishing with the proclama-tion: "I'll buy a hat, any hat, if you

Appearing with the Hanneford AerialThrill Circus, in a show produced byGlenn Parkins, at the Minnesota Fairwere:The Vashek Duo, The Franconi Duo,Les Castros, the Flying Gaonas andthe Crater Crash Rocket.The show's bandleader was Keith Kit-linger, with organist Wanda Darling-ton and drummer Steve Lockwood.Ernie McLean was both vocalist andringmaster for the show.

San Francisco's musical-magic show"Grand Illusion" has closed due toalack of business.

have my size!"

Most hatters used to stock men's hatsfrom size 6% thru 7%. That was Blackstone's gimmick. He had a bushy headof hair and a very large head size. Hewore size 8!

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BOB BERKY and FRED CARVERare teaching a class in clowning andcircus feats at North Turner, Maine.

YANA VASHEK, the 41/, year olddaughter of the Great Vashek, ridesthe aerial motorcycle with her dadand stands on the cycle without theuse of any safety devices.

CHRISSIE the Clown was featuredin a special Question and Answercolumn of the Detroit Free Press onJuly 31st.

JOHNNY CLINE was pictured in arecent issue of Enquirer, showinghim loading up the elephants after aCanadian show date.

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KAICHINAMBA (Continued)

this country. However, Kaichi wastorn between his love for Americaand the old, strong Japanese traditionof returning to his Fatherland to liveout his remaining years.During the early part of the 1970's Iwas stationed near where Kaichi liv-ed and would see him almost everySunday, during a two year period.His home was high on a hill in Ka-mooka (near Yokohama) and unlikemost Japanese homes, which are un-painted, Kaichi had his home painteda bright Ringing Red.

I had anticipated a traditional Japan-ese meal the first time I went to seehim and much to my surprise a littlebit of America had been transplantedto the heart of Japan, as Kaichi re-mained very western in his ideas andhad his house furnished typically wes-tern style, except for the boys, whosebedrooms were traditional Japanese.Also, fried chicken, potato salad, sweetcom and strictly American food wasfeatured - a real disappointment at

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

NEWSPRINT: The KLEMENTISscored a full-page article in the Gainesville, Fla. Sunday Sun in late August.Article used three large color photos.The Klementis are at Harrahs in LakeTahoe. The Washington Sunday Starfeatured a story on URSULA BOT-TCHER entitled "Polar Bears InFlorida?"WHEN Hurricane David swept up

the east coast Al and SUE DAWLEYwere fortunate that only their boat-house was flooded and a boat sunk.The storm did no damage to thehouse although downtown Savannahwas hit by a lot of water and winddamage. Al returns to the Polack datesnext season and will make RochesterforM&M.

BY the time this column sees printJANICE ARIA will have had her ba-by. I knew about the pregnancy at itsinception but deliberately withheldthe news for fear it might hampertheir bookings.

Luckily Janice is a tall girl and withclever costuming concealed her condi-tion. We kept that secret right up un-til the very end, didn't we, Janice!

SEE you down the road, luvs.

first until I convinced Hani that I didenjoy Japanese food.Despite the many miles of ocean that

BILLY RAYE - OPEN

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separated Kaichi from his long lifewith American circuses (over 40 yrs.)he remained extremely interested inhis American friends and each visitwas queried about those he loved andhad worked with.Up until May of this year, when hefirst became ill, he was writing to meeach month. He always asked aboutHarold Ronk, Joey Hodgini, Doc Hen-derson, Lloyd Morgan, Tuffy GendersDuane Thorpe, Bob Dover, JeanieCarson, Lou Jacobs, Dennis Stevens,Bobby Kay and Antonette Concello.A letter this week from Haru Nambainformed me that the current Ring-ling Red Unit program I sent him hadarrived just prior to his hospitalizatiorand that he was called to the Big Loton Sept. 5,1979. He was pleased toread what few names were still therein the RBBB program, from the lifehe chose, knew and loved so well.Kaichi, your friends will never forgetyou - and we are all happy that yourlife has touched ours.

Page 18 Octobers, 1979

SPARKY, Don Washbum, clown withthe Big John Strong Circus, was ser-iously injured in an auto accident atCrescent City, Calif., last month. Hiscondition is still listed as "serious"and he has been moved to the UnitedGeneral Hospital at Sedro-Wooley,Wash.The accident was the result of a localyoung man falling asleep while driv-ing. His car ran head-on into the BigJohn Strong Circus sound truck, inwhich Sparky was a passenger, thedriver escaped without serious in-juries.The sound truck and office wagon itwas pulling were a total loss.

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BILLY MARTIN, Me/juggler, will bewith the Magic Holiday Fantasy dur-ing Nov. and Dec. He will also makethe 1980 winter dates for JAMES M.COLE, where in addition to servingas ringmaster he will do his rola bolaand juggling acts.

LARRY DAVIS, SMOKEY JONES,ODDY DOODY, JACK BENNETTand ARMIDA SMITH'S folks wererecent visitors at the Los AngelesCounty Fair.

AN ETA VARGAS, wire act, is work-ing the Te.-as Shrine dates after a two

•"»r run ii ?.e\,r> and Las Vegas.

In Memoriam -TED ELKORT, a tax accountant inNew York who handled tax returnsfor a great many show people, diedin New York City early in August. Ason survives.

WILLIAM NIPPO (77) a retired cir-cus performer and clown, died Aug.29th at Gulfport, Miss. His wife Ber-nice survives.

W. E. (Shotgun) PAGE, former cir-cus owner, visited the Great Amer-ican Circus last month and thencaught Carson & Barnes early thismonth.

Ice Show WantedSIMULATED OR TEFLON SURFACE -

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byDON

MARCKS

The Post Office says we must startcomplying with their new rules andregulations covering the mailing ofFirst Class Mail. Since Circus Reporthas also been classified as "loosemail" it means we now must alsocomply with those additional regu-lations.Because of this you will note somemajor changes in the size and lay-out of the paper, starting next week.These changes will bring the paperwithin the Postal regulations, stillallowing us to mail it for 15c eachweek.

There will, from time-to-time, belarger issues, as in the past, and theywill require a 28c stamp on each is-sue. But in the main the copies willcontinue to be mailed for 15c each.

We would like to expand Circus Re-port to a full 8%" x 11" page sizeand that is certainly preferable ratherthan making a cut in its present size.

To achieve that format a big invest-ment would be required for the pur-chase of new equipment and at themoment it seems doubtful that wecould manage the financial aspectsof new and larger loans, etc.

For the present, at least, we wouldlike to consider the smaller pagesize as only a temporary thing -something that will keep Circus Re-port going and sort of tide us overuntil some positive plans can beworked out.

We hope you will bear with us dur-ing these trying times and that youwill continue to support the paper.

We appreciate your interest andwill need both that and your prayersin the coming months. That's all thatkeeps Circus Report going.

BOOKLIFE AND ADVENTURES OFADAM BARDY

This writer has just received a giftcopy of the book "The Circus Lifeand Adventures of Adam Bardy" atruly unique and interesting book.One of the best I have read.Old-timers will recall Adam and hisequally handsome son, out in frontselling concessions with all of thebig named circuses. Perhaps you re-member him in his prize fightingdays as Jimmy Brit.This is a thrill and exciting adventurestory of Adam's circus life which gotstarted before he was 10, when on aSaturday in 1915, he ran away andjoined the Buffalo Bill Wild WestShow.From there he went on to live withgypsy friends, then with the circusduring the Rparin' 20s, and follow-ed by a fighting career.Adarn and a friend found their wayinto Kentucky and there becamemoonshine mountaineers, then hebecame a bootlegger, an operationthat was shut down by police, andfrom his gypsy friends lie learnedthe art of fortune telling, reading aperson's past, present or future.

MAGIC SHOW

The "Kim Dickson Magic Show" pro-duced by Big John Strong, will openfor a fall/winter tour at San Antonio,Texas, on Oct. 21st. Big John will bewith the show, joining it immediatelyafter his tent show closes for the sea-son.In addition to Kim Dickson, magician,the show will feature, Chester Cable,foot juggler, Win! McKay, aerialist, DonYoung, clown, Phil and Paul, musiciansRon Perry, wire/juggler. Jay Evans,juggler and Sandy Strong, birds.

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THE BRAUNS, western acts, have re-turned to their Southern Californiahome after a long season with the BioJohn Strong Circus.

MIGUELITOand ROBIN, aerial acts,have joined the Big John Strong Cir-cus for the remainder of this season'stour.

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