U.S. Tour Cancelled

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August 22,1977 Number 34

U.S. Tour CancelledMexico's Circus Union has abandoned its plans to tour in the U. S. despite recent Immi-

gration Department approval of its entry request. The problem, according to show owner SenorJesus Fuentes, was a stipulation jn the agreement that the circus must be managed by a U. S. citi-zen. Because Fuentes was unable to find anyone to his liking the tour was called of f .

Well over a year ago Fuentes announced he would tour the U. S., playing areas with a ma-jor Spanish speaking population along the border and in the west. In preparation for the tour heordered a colorful new big top measuring 140 ft. x 232 ft.

Shortly after that first announcementseveral American show owners voiced their ob-jections, even going to officials in Washington,as a result the Immigration Dept. refused togrant an entry permit for the circus and its per-sonnel. However, early this year a move gotunderway to gain backing for the circus andfinally because of pressure the ImmigrationDept. reversed its ruling and said the circuscould come into this country.

Charges FiledCharges of cruelty to animals were filed againstOtto Berosini early in this month in Sarasota(Fla.) County Court. The charges were filed byMrs. Boots Pallister, an investigator for theEquine Rescue Service.

Mrs. Pallister told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune(Continued on 6)

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MAGICMagic-Time USA recently completed its swingthrough the mid-west and certainly enjoyed awealth of visits by several magicians, many ofwhom provided some interesting news aboutthe magic business.The Amazing Conklms joined us for a cook-outat Peoria (111) on their way home to Colon, Michafter dates in Texas for Jim Nordmark. Jerry re-ports that when they showed Texas City the en-tire local IBM ring visited the show, includingZaney and Becky Blaney, Sandy Rings, Adrianand Terry Overstreet (Terry used to work foryours truly), Ken and Roberta Griffin and BobFord. Cindy Conklin recently made the "ulti-mate production" by having a son - ShawneeThunder Pony. Mike Conklin (our stage mgr)recently sprained his arm when he fell from askate board in Peru, Ind.At Elkhart (Ind) Don Babbs and Mark Strawvisited. Master builder Don Babbs worked foryears under the name Arturo and invented manyeffects including the "girl to 6ths". We verynervously presented this illusion as he watchedthe show, then tried to get a few pointers fromDon, but true to form for a magician he declin-ed to come up with any fine points for hisbrain child.Other recent visitors have been: In Chicago,Dick Oslund; In La Salle, Mystery & Co; In Jo-liet, Dee-Lip Yoo and also circus photographerClayton Wood; In Monmouth, Leola Wain andothers. In Joliet we showed at the old RialtoTheatre and discovered some old Thurston paper back stage. Had a nice chat with Leola LaWain who is carrying on with her departed hus-band's mail order used magic business. In ElkGove, veteran agent Gil Miller was by for a chat.While in Chicago we all visited Magic, Inc. andcut up a few jackpots with Jay Marshall. When

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!We also found time to visit the Dobritch Circus-at Wheaton, 111. They had a great show and ourthanks for the hospitality extended by BillyBarton and Jimmy Douglass.Magician Mike Martin recently broke his armand says he had to have it reset twice and it isstill causing trouble. Am anxious to see him asa "one arm magician."Reports from Mexico City say the famous Blan-queto Theatre (Mexico's No. 1 vaude house)has magiciain Chen-Kai and also comic LocoValdez.-on the bill. Loco was the show stopperin the Mexican version of the Magic Show awhile back. He played the part of the old ma-gician while Tino Flores played the Doug Hen.ning part. Chen-Kai, of course, is the famousMexican "magician's magician."We are now following a route that will take useast and into New Jersey and are looking for-ward to meeting many fans and magicians. Ourroute is in CR and you are always welcome.We are especially proud of our band which is ledby Jack King, a veteran of vaude, burlesque andeverything else. Besides being a great musician,Jack is full of show-biz yarns and it is worthyour while to visit our show just to meet Jackand hear his stories, so come by when we arem y°ur area- PROF, MILLER(2364 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, Fla. 33577)

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Aug. 27-29 Edmonton, Albta.

Beatty-Cole Bros. CircusAug. 22-24 Sharon, Pa.

25-28 Youngstown, Ohio

Buffalo Bill's Wild West ShowAug. 26-28 Louisville, Ky.

Carson & Barnes CircusAug. 22-23 Harvey, 111.

24-25 Merrillville, Ind.26 Wilmington, 111.27 Sycamore

28-29 Prairie du Sac, Wise.

Hubert Castle CircusAug. 22-24 Crown Point, Ind.

26-28 Birmingham, Ala.

Circus VargasAug. 23-25 Sherbrooke, Quebec

Funs-A-Poppin Circusto Aug 28 Lion Country, Calif.

Bobby Gibbs Circusto Sept. 11 Baraboo, Wise.

Hall & Christ Circus Uniqueto Aug 28 Columbus, Ohio

Tommy Hanneford Circusto Sept. 5 Lake George, N. Y.

Happytime Circusto Sept. 6 Sacramento, Calif.

Hoxie's Great American CircusAug. 22 Louisburg, W. s

23 Summersville24 Sutton25 Jane Lew26 Stonewood27 Kingwood

Int'l All Star CircusAug. 22 St. Paul, Minn.

25 Chicago, 111.27 W. Bloomfield, Mich.

King Bros. CircusAug. 22 Erie, Pa.

23 Conneaut, Ohio24 Ashtabula25 Medina26 Fostoria

Martin & Downs CircusAug. 22 Windsor, Nflnd.

24 BadgerRingling-Bamum - Blue Unit

Aug. 23-24 Sioux Falls, S. D.26-28 Madison, Wise.

Ringling-Bamum • Red UnitAug. 23-30 Oakland, Calif.

Ringling-Bamum - Thrill CircusAug. 22-28 Columbus, Ohio

Royal Danish CircusAug 25-Sept 5 Detroit, Mich.

Wenatchee Youth CircusAug. 27 Spokane, Wash.

Sells & Gray CircusAug. 22 Aurora, 111.

24 Barington25 Northbrook26 Harvard27 Belvidere28 Savanna

John Strong's CircusAug. 22 Blackfoot, Iowa

23 Idaho Falls, Idaho24 Pocatello25 Twin Falls26 Ontario, Oregon27 Baker27 La Grande

TNT & Royal Olympic CircusAug. 24-28 Toledo, Ohio

LEO DeMERS, 89 yrs. old, retiredacrobat now living at the VeteransHospital, Wood, Wise., and The Rev.FATHER ALEX, of the Italian Ca-tholic Church, Milwaukee, Wsc, andFRANK FINK, son of retired ani-mal trainer and slack wire perfor-mer, GEORGE BINK, cisited theCircus World Museum at Barabooas the guest of JOHN H' WILSON,retired performer, on Aug. 10th.The visit, however, was cut shortbecause DeMers was on only a fewhours leave

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BILLY BARTON • • •HOXIE TUCKER entered the Lancaster (Pa) GeneralHospital on July 18th for a Hernia operation...Thereare rumors that GERARD SOULES will take out asmall, but elegant tent show next summer between hisice show commitments. The tent is to be made by Leaf....The DAVID and HARRY RAWLS Chatauqua re-turned to the barn two months ago, but will re-emergeas a circus for a 6 week fall tour.

REPORT FROM CIRCUS VARGAS: WALLY BICK-MORE is building the props and cages for the newJoyner cat act....Young TIM BICKMORE is managingthe Coke Concession which is not bad for a 16 yearold Canada is expensive: people lose 4 to 6 centson every dollar sent to the states....Gas is between .80and $1.06 a gallon 30% comes off the top of salar-ies in taxes C L I F F V A R G A S hired an accountantto do the performers' tax returns. Last season he sav-ed JAN J O Y N E R over 300 bucks MARY LOU DETEMPLE (Miss Christine and General Vargas) has beenknown to have some hot times at her trailer, but re-cently during "spec" a faulty TV wire caught f i re andtotally destroyed it. Thanks to quick action by JOHNMARONE and PINKIE FRITZ her little dog was res-cued The show had a typical Old Fashioned July 4Celebration, barbecue and all. JIM GIBSON's bandplayed a medley of patriotic tunes. With the volumefull pitch half of Canada heard our National Anthem!The barbecue was a success, with "just enough peoplethere to make it enjoyable and just enough absent totalk about!"....Highspot was JIM GIBSON's ice creamlaced with Kalua.

ON THE SCENE WITH HOXIES BIG TOP: Prop bossWES BROWN's right hand is becoming stronger sinceits recent mangling in the spool wagon and LINDACHANDLER, recovered from her broken wrist suffer-ed this winter, is doing web and working a dog act.She made the bright orange tunics for the C O R T E ZFamily's high wire act....Hubby, PHIL CHANDLER 'Smagic/illusion display utilizing four feather-cladd dam-sels is the "flash" of the program....JOHNNY andLAURA (Herriott) W A L K E R are doing a superlativejob with the Hoxie elephants and Laura is presentinga pony drill trained by her dad....How JOHN LEWISgets over the road with that pick-up is a miracle...Liontrainer MICHAEL C E C E R E is the number one surpriseof the current program. His five lion act is improvingrapidly and the audience enjoys it....The second BIGsurprise is the outstanding five piece band overseen by

drummer JOE EDDY". It's the best band Hoxie Tuckerever had on any of his shows....It takes clown TOMSINK longer to park and level his trailer than it doesthe tent crew to put up the big topL.The show willhave a new top in 1978....8yr. old ROBINSON COR-TEZ slipped from the flybar on a return, fell into theapron, bounced out. He was hospitalized with a se-vere concussion, but is now back on the show and fly-ing....Miss MATTY S IRRIO is hand-raising two of Ce-cere's lion cubs, one is named Eloise (berchtold) andthe other Rex (Williams)....PHIL CHANDLER is ser-iously planning to start a MARY RUTH HERRIOTT

"fan club"... sort of a new type CFA by profession-als which might just catch on. Since there's a vastnumber of very "popular" and very "famous" personaalities for whom there is no "tent" or "ring" thiscould be successful....Yo Yo the Unrideable Mule madea surprise guest star appearance at the Act III nite spotat Riviera Beach (Md) and left his "trademark" on thedance floor....Terrell the Lion Terrible has managed toget a healthy nibble from virtually the entire prop crew(as well as others) and on one show, when the door inthe shift ing cage was not closed properly, he stoodin the opening looking at first WES BROWN and thenat PHIL C H A N D L E R , apparently sizing up the juiciestmeat!....Illusionist G A R Y HOLVECK at WilliamsGrove Park (Pa) for the summer was a recent visitorand when the two shows were 20 miles apart person-nel were seen dashing back and forth.

SNAPSHOTS: C A R M E N PADILLA, who fell from anankle drop on Beatty-Cole, is back in the show...KAYPITTENGER visited TOM and-STRUPPI HANNEFORDat Lake George (NY)....KENNY D O D O hoped over tovisit JIM DOUGLASS now at home in Florida...DIANEWILSON, it's said, is planning a bird act...DE MILLEwound up his season for Fleckles... .DON PHILLIPS istrying his hand at promoting, is in the mid-west for theJacobis....The DAVIDE ZOPPE and BUMPY familieswere reunited at the "Ak-Sar-Ben" date in Omaha.They played it together 5 years ago when David andSusan became engaged. "This time," says Susan, "whenwe played there we were married:"

Report from FAMOUS HUNT: "Werner" HERRIOTTsuf fered "mono" and was out of the show for awhile... . .MARY RUTH has been working the baby elephant....DON JONES has been "in advance" of the show...Anew Massey-Ferguson fork- l i f t is now in use....ERIC

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ourriRecent visitors on the King-Cole lot included:Tiny Phillips, raving about the CFA Conventionin Vegas; Hoxie Tucker, back on the road afteran operation; Pat Bissonette and George Hanne-ford.. .. Brian and Jerry Maas, closed with theKing show, will work the Minnesota State Fairand then join Royal Hanneford for the fall sea-son. . . . The Dorian Blake Show played twoweeks at a Holiday Inn in North CarolinaDuring a recent show Carlos Campa played twochickens, it was his first attempt to performthis before an audience. . . . Recuperating aerial-ist Nancy Giordano, who suffered a freak fallearly in the year, plans to return to the air inJanuary '78.Acts booked for the Emmett Kelly, Jr. , Circusat Cohasset, Mass (Aug. 11) by agent Rose A-dair were: Joe Phillips, wonder dogs and Gold-:en Mist, the horse; Ken Sherburnc, juggling androlling globes; The Cyclonians, unicycles, MikeNaughton and Pat Bissonette, clowns and Scal-zo, illusions. Mike Naughton

ATTENTIONANYONE knowing Mr. and Mrs. Marty Martin(FOIeanor) formerly of Houston, Texas. Pleasenotify an old friend: Sylvia Newton Morris, P.0. Box 6486, Burbank, Calif. 91510.(Heard they were working in a circus as vendorsin California).

A Big ShowThe Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show program aspresented here at Scottsdale (Ariz) July 16-31was a great show. The program offered 38 dis-plays featuring a wide variety of acts and oldwestern numbers, with lots of color and excite-ment.

Among those on the show were Jim and ViBrady (Vi was on the Col. Tim McCoy Showwhen she was 18); the Petersons, the WarvellFamily, The Syd Moore Family, Joyce Rice,Glen Randall, who was also on the McCoy showand who trained horses for the Petersons, GeneAutry, Roy Rogers and Rex Allen. Other per-sonnel included Jess Montana, Juan Montano,Chryle Rowles, Dottie Montana, Jones Benally,Magdamonious, John Brady and several Indians..Rudy Robbins played the part of Buffalo Billand did a great job.

The show's staff included: Rudy Robbins, Buf-falo Bill; Montie Montana, Jr., producer; RuthNeimark, public relations; Jim Flynn, advertis-"ing director; Diana Stewart, show secretary;Jones Benally, chief of Indians; Chryle Rowles,Miss Wild West; Karen Hombrook, sales mana-ger; Gerry Roberts, pyrotechnician; Kelly Mon-tana, prop director; Dan Walker, concessions;Juan Montano, farrier and Ray Anderson, ani-mal manager. Joe Rettinger

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Six performances were presented bythe Hubert Castle Circus at Joplin,Mo. (Aug. 4-6) where the show wassponsored by the Joplin ShrineClub. Herbert S. Hoyt served as theCircus Chairman and Alton L. Joneswas Co-Chairman, both men aremembers of the CFA.Acts appearing in the show includ-ed Derrick Rosaire and his horse,Tony; the Rock Smith Flyers; Joe(Red) Hartman, lions and tigers;Dale Harney, escape artist; DougAshton, comedian deluxe; theShrine Aerialnvelies; Marios andthe Mad Hatters; the RodriquezTroupe; Dennis Sherman, highdive; Pamela Rosaire's chimps; theDroguettes, jugglers and the Friel-Smith Rocket "S" Cannon.

Out-of-town visitors included: Ev-erett Eslinger, of Springfield andState CFA Chairman for Missouri;Johnnie Marietta, of Pittsburg, Ks,circus and railroad buff and Velmaand Aden Lowry, of Sedan, Kansas.

MOORK's MONGREL REVUEleaves this week to join the Ice Fol-lies International for their tour inSouth America.

DAVID HOY, magician and pub-lisher of an E.S.P. Letter is recov-

ROUTESCentury 21 Shows

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James H. Drew ShowsAug. 22-27 Gray, Tenn.

Foley & Burk Showsto Aug. 28 Monterey, Calif.

Grass Valley

Magic Time USA - Prof. MillerAug. 22 West York, Pa.

23 Pottstown26 Perth Amboy, N. J.27 Great Meadows28 Union Beach

Royal Lipizzan Stallion ShowAug. 26 Great Falls, Mont.

27-28 Billings

James E. Strates Showsto Aug 27 Hamburg, N. Y.

This Is Hawaii. . . On IceAug. 23-28 Davao, Philippines

Tip Top ShowsAug. 25-28 Lancaster, Wise.

Vidbel's AnimalandAug. 23-28 Flint, Mich.

40 Horse Hitchto Aug. 24 Erie, N. Y.

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KARRELL FOX, magician,calls his "Linking Ring"routine "The Three Ring Circus" or the "Mystery of theElephant's Teething Rings'"Diek BRUNO, of St. Pet-ersburg, Fla., is planning areunion with SHERI LE-WIS when she visits that

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BARRY MITCHELL, of the Flying Medallions,has joined the Farfan Troupe on RBBB, replac-ing DON MARTINEZ who is recovering frominjuries.The SIKORSKYS, jugglers and unicyclists, andprobably one of the youngest and newest actsout this year, worked July 4th weekend at Cres-cent Lake Park, Providence, R.I., working withthe CRISTIANI elephants, LIPKO's Chimps andMARCELLI and JANICE. Following that aweek was spent at Canobie Lake Park, Salem, NH., the Goshen Fair, Westchester, Pa., and up-coming dates include the Annapolis Exhibitionsin Lawrencetown, N.S., Woodstock, Connecti-cut Fair, plus dates in the Penna/New Yorkarea for Harmes Productions and Smyser.

JACK SLAGLE and GERALD HARSHMANvisited the Hoxie's Great American Circus atSlippery Rock, Pa., where the Mayor proclaim-ed July 26th as "Circus Day."

BILLY BARTY and Family visited the Funs-A-

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JOHN McPEAK, juggler, has been signed for atwo month engagement in Tel Aviv, where hewill play club dates.

Franzen Bros. Circus has acquired a new can-vas spool truck for their show.

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Hoxie's date at Hagerstown (July 11) was spon-sored by the Emmett Kelly CFA Tent. A partyincluding food and films was provided by fanson the show's day off (July 10).

On Sunday morning, July 10th, there was a 10a.m. church service under the big top with Rev.George Hodgdon, minister. His sermon was"Why, Why, Why?" (The cry of the detractors).Vocalist for the service was David Dimitri, whodirected the singing of hymns.

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Chicago DateBaron Julius Von Uhl's "Grand Ole AmericanCircus" played the Bernard Horwich JewishCommunity Center in Chicago for a seven dayengagement (July 25-31) offering a total of 14performances. Nine of the shows were completesell-outs, while the remaining five were wellover three-quarter houses.

The performance ran for two hours and receiv-ed coverage in local area newspaper and TVstations. The circus was produced by Baron VonUhl, with Tony Slyker serving as ringmaster andshow manager. Richard Yeagley was the tech-nical director and George Hubler handled theconcessions.

The program featured: Clown warm-up (Hon-key and Tonkey); Overture by Virginia LeeFenton and Chuck (drums and organ); BaronVon Uhl, lions and tigers; Clowns; RicardoTroupe, low wire; Kolmedys, balancing; ClownLion Act; Bernard Horwich Community Clowngroup; Pietro & Joyce, unsupported ladder; thedrawing of door prizes and intermission.

Following a color book sales pitch by GeorgeHubler, the show continued with: Pietro & Pie-tro, comedy roly boly; Muffet, the Clown (Ke-vin Sherman); The Canestrellis, teeterboard;Clown Cooking School; Olmedas, cycles; KevinSherman, comedy trampoline; Tony Diano'selephants with Lee and Jeanette Keener.

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A RUNAWAYWhen Carson & Barnes Circus was setting up atFond du Lac, Wise. (Aug. 8) a truck backfiredand the elephant "Barbara" bolted and ran. Forseven hours she roamed about the area, knock-ing over a camper trailer, trampling fences andbushes and various cornfields.

The wayward elephant was finally spotted byairplanes and elephant supt. Don Carr, alongwith trainer Joe Carroll, dashed off with theelephant "Kay" to bring her back.

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Hoxie Bros. Circus drew three-quarter and fullhouses at its Lynhurst, N. J. (July 25) date for•the Kiwanis Club.

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'78 Dates SetAlthough the season is less than half over theTNT & Royal Olympic Circus has already sign-ed several major dates for 1978. Among thedates set for next year are Dallas, Independenceand San Jose, plus Cedar Rapids and Austin.

The show has been plagued by heat throughoutits midwest dates with temperatures running to100 plus almost every day. In contrast therehave been some windy and rainy days, but withthe show playing indoor malls the weather hasvirtually no effect on attendance. As a resultthey have enjoyed SRO crowds on a contintual basis, with exceptionally heavy crowds inand around the Chicago area.

Tim Tegge, show drummer and clown, workeda Warner Bros, record promotion at Independ-ence on July 23rd for the release of AliceCooper's new albumn "Lace and Whiskey."

Cotton Candy, Pop Corn, Snow Cone andNovelty Equipment. Would like to operateconcessions on small circus or work forsomeone on P. C. basis. Have 15 years ex-perience in all capacities.

DON and MARY BULLITT504 Charles St.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

Phone: (501)756-0741

August 22,1977r

Ken "Turtle" Benson, announcer/elephant hand-ler/side show super/performer, informs this wri-ter that Vermont haS*provided some straw hous-es for Fisher Bros. Circus. Benson says, "we'llsoon be turning back for a run southward.""Miss Sunbeam" the New Orleans Zoo elephantthat crused an attendant to death in July, hasbeen traded, with "Cookie" another elephant,to the St. Louis Zoo. Both animals were tradedfor a $7000 credit against a future elephantwhen the new elephant enclosure is completed.A feature act at the Lake Pontchartain Park atNew Orleans is the "Human Torch" (SteveMurrjy) who dives from a 80 ft. platform.Reports released by the Superdome state theRingling-Barnum show was our most successfulevent this year. "We (Dome) netted over$100,000 clear and the circus did even better."The Blue Unit jumped into Houston from NewOrleans and again encountered good business.Attention All Tent Circuses: The drought inLouisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas is over. Wehave had lots of rain, crops are excellent andthe temperature is slightly below normal, so itlooks like a good fall ahead.Members of the Ed Millette CFA Tent recentlycompleted work on cataloging a circus collec-tion for a local University. This is another finecollection that will be available to future his-torians and those who love the circus. By theway the Dallas folks are looking forward to abig event when the Dr. Pepper Circus makes itsannual appearance at the Texas State Fair.A Church Revival crowd was recently surprised

CIRCUS ORGANIST after Nov. 1st.Contact: RAY HARTZELL, 404 So.Meadow Valley Drive, Las Vegas,Nevada 89107.Phone: (702)873-5093

GEGORY FEDIN and NINA KRASAVINA,former Soviet Circus clowns, and PAUL BIND-er, former teacher at the National Circus Schoolof France, have been instrumental in organizingthe "Big Apple Circus" a residentcircus in NewYork City.

FOR SALERingling Bros. Worlds Greatest Shows CircusLitho, in very good condition, a few tears onedges. Beautiful colors. Price $50.00 Firm.2 old circus scrapbooks, lots of pictures, etc.both for $75.00(Litho has pictures of the 5 Ringling Bros.)

R. ARTHUR BENNETTRte. I Friendship, Wise. - 53934

to find they were being addressed by a clown,in full make-up. After an hour of entertainingthe children: Do Do, the Clown, was asked tospeak to the congregation. It was a most reward-ing experience for all concerned. Dodo alsoentertained at a Bible School picnic and can beseen regularly at the Louisiana Purchase Gard-ens in Monroe, La., on Sunday afternoons.

,.. M. L. DUPONT

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WITH Girl(s) that can assist illusion act- 41 Weeks Work in 1978 for Stage Show -

CAN ALSO PLACE OTHER MUSICIANS 1977-78Send photos-resume-salary to: LEE D O N O G H U E

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(First Time to Tour U.S.A.-Best Male Lion Act Available)Contact

JOSIP MARCAN818 - 13th Avenue - Green Bay, Wisconsir 54304

Phone: (414) 432-5692

REVIEWBill Garden's "Holiday Hippodrome Circus"played at Gloucester, Mass. (Aug. 6) under theauspices of the Lions Club. Two shows werepresented (2 and 4 p.m.) in the 625 seat O'Maley Auditorium. Tickets were priced at $2.00each, for everyone.

The Gloucester date was set by executive agentA. W. Constantini and the day room telephonepromotion was handled by Jeff Green. The fourphone promotion was managed by Jerald Sacks.

The 90 minute program, consisting of ten dis-plays, featured: Plate spinning by John Albertiassisted by his wife, Crystal; magic and illusion,including the Zig Zag by Floyd Bradbury, assis-ted by his wife, Marlene and daughters, Sheriand Melody; balancing by Andre Schweizer, as-sisted by his wife, Ree; balancing on a globe byMario Alberti and his wife, Barbara; four mini-ature poodles by John and Crystal Alberti; bal-loon demonstration by Floyd Bradbury andyoungsters from the audience.

After intermission were two chimps and twoSiberian husky dogs, presented by Al Anton-ucci; balancing by Mario Alberti ; illusions bythe Bradburvs; Andre Schwei/er on the low

B I L L Y B A R T O N (Con t i nued )

JAEGER left suddenly, taking his two assistants withhim....Show has been operating with only one lightplant, a rod went thru the motor of the second unit....Biz remains steady and the show will close with a weeklong mall stand winding up their season on Labor Day.

One of the large bulls with Hoxie's Big Top Circus ac-tually rolls the side show canvas with its trunk aidingthis operation by first pushing with its right foot andthen its left. In 43 years of trouping I never saw any-thing like it!

See you down the road, luvs....

Most of the music for the show was provided byFloyd Bradbury' °n the organ and Sheri Brad-bury on drums. Occasional recordings were alsoused. Floyd Bradbury served as show managerand announcer as well.

The show arrived in Gloucester after playingdates in Burlington and Barry (Vt) and Laconiaand Manchester (N.H.). They moved from Glou-cester to play one day stands in Plymouth andHyannis (Mass.), Keene (N.H.), as well as Wil-l imant ic and New London (Conn.).

Ralph Tomer

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thank youPAUL KAYE - RALPH YEMPUKU

FOR SELECTING US TO APPEAR WITH THE

I N T E R N A T I O N A L 3-RING C I R C U S IN H A W A I I

"THE TOUR OF A LIFETIME"

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Thanks again to the entire company for making it a good tour!

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CHARGES FILED (Continued)

;she has nine witnesses who will testify that Ber-osini mistreated his animals. She charges the an-imals were beaten with a 2x4 plank and a rake,and were kept in the hot sun without adequatesupplies of water.

The animals were taken into custody and "arebeing well taken care of," according to Mrs.Pallister. A former show employee (Gregg Jack-son) is helping to care for the animals.

Berosini, who says he fears for his animals safe-ty of his animals since they are out of his con-trol denies all the charges. "I'm a circus perfor-mer," he said. "I earn my money by showingmy animals. If my animals look scruffy and un-derfed, who is going to pay money to see them?"According to Berosini, Mrs. Pallister and hernine witnesses are unfami l ia r wi th trainingmethods. Don't you think that if 1 beat my ti-ger he would turn on me, the trainer added. Ittook years to train the animal by patiently lead-ing him around on a leash, "never beating him."

Berosini was featured at the Circus Hall of Fame

but his contract was terminated a few weeksago. That, says CHF general manager Herb Gar-rido, was because the contract had a clause thatif revenue drops below a certain figure it couldbe terminated. "We weren't pulling in enoughPeople,"'says Garrido and so Berosini was re-leased.

The action had nothing to do with the allegedmistreatment of the animals. I never saw Bero«sini mistreat the animals, says Garrido. If wehad any such information concerning mistreat-ment of the animals, adds Garrido, we wouldhave fired Berosini immediately.Berosini says his troubles started when he firedGregg Jackson for beating the camel and forget-ting to feed the other animals. He retaliated bytelling Mrs. Pallister that the animals were be-ing mistreated.At press time the matter was scheduled for ahearing before County Judge Edwin Cummer,of Sarasota, Fla. Under Florida law Judge Com-mer could take all of Berosini's animals awayfrom him and turn them over to the EquineRescue Service for custody.

T/LCwnd

ROBERT E. BAUDY, Owner-DirectorP. O. Box 132Center Hill, Florida 33514

Phone: (904) 793-2109Cable: ANIMALCENTERSTATE OF FLORIDA Game and Fresh Water

Fish Commission No. 130U. S. D. A. License 58-EL-119MEMBER of A. A. Z. P. A.

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ON HAND AT ALL TIMES: BLACK MANE AFRICAN LION; AFRICAN, ASIAN,CHINESE and BLACK LEOPARDS; CLOUDED LEOPARD; SNOW LEOPARD; BLACKand SPOTTED J A G U A R ; BAY, CANADIAN and SIBERIAN LYNXES, BENGAL andSIBERIAN TIGERS; WESTERN and SOUTH AMERICAN COUGAR; SERVEL, GOLDENCAT: OCELOT; MARGAY.

ALSO B R E E D I N G : WHITE, B R O W N . SPOTTED FALLOW D E E R ; SPOTTED andSTRIPED HYENA; LLAMA; GUANACO, DROMADERY and BACTRIAN CAMEL;CAMEROONESE PIGMY GOATS; FALLABALA MINIATURE HORSES; APPALOOSAHORSE; WHITE E L K ; WHITE RHINOCEROS and more . . .

- P L E A S E V I S I T O U R 4 5 A C R E S -IMPORTANT: "The of fe r for sale of Endangered Species is contingent upon the receipt bybuye i of a U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Permit." (For non-Flor ida residents only).

August 22, 1977

KARL WALLENDA and DAVE MERRIFIELDwere honored at the Sarasota (Fla.) ShowfolksClub early this year.

GUNNAR AMANDIS recently made a quickbooking trip into Canada.

CARL TRUCHEL, escape artist, was a featureattraction at New England's Crescent Park earlythis month. Also appearing at the park was theHunt's Circus.

MIKE SPORRER reports that RBBB's Blue Un-it substituted Sioux Falls for Kansas City, whichwas origianlly scheduled for playing.

FRANK DEAN, western star, walked for thefirst time last week without the aid of a caneor crutch. He suffered a broken leg last Augustwh ile performing at the California State Fair.

RBBB's Red Unit will open its Jjan Francisco( C a l i f . ) engagement at the Cow Palace with a •matinee performance.

For Sale35' Motorhome (Continental Trailways Bus)Norcold Refrigerator, Valiant Instant HotWaterheater, Standard Size Overhead OvenStove.Interior recently re-done. Needs bath install-ed and few finishing touches. Has Hall-ScottPancake Gas Engine, 5 Speed Full Air Trans.

- Stored near Roseburg, Ore. -

Give Away Priced at $6,000.00

Write for more informationJACK DeHOLT

11119CedarhurstHouston, Texas - 77096Phone: (513)729-7076

Make Appt. to see after Sept. 1st.VERN WHITAKER

Phone: (503)849-2710

G4LAXY STAGE LIGHTING

3962 Ince Blvd. Culver City, Ca 9O23O

phone (213) 836-2789

Lighting Equipment • New & Used -Rentals Sales Service

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AL and SUE DAWLEY, The FLYING LAR-RAYS, the LODI DUO, DeMILLE and the FOS-SETTS spent a few days vacation at the Pecaton-ica Park (111) Fairgrounds recently.

BRADD and SHEILA FRANK opened their"O.K. Animal Korral" early this month in Flor-ida, then jump into Ohio for five weeks, play-ing shopping malls, after which they will worktheir way back south. Dates have already beensigned for the Holiday Season in Florida. Theshow is a western themed petting zoo, with se-veral cage wagons, wild west movie exhibits andseveral of the Frank's western acts, performedon a portable stage. A pony ride is also carried.The show is booked through the A. E. Agencyin Florida, as well as the Frank's own DA-NAProductions, Satsuma, Fla.

ROSE ADAIR, veteran agent, recently set theBLAKISTONS, illusion act from Britain, fol-lowed by CHARLES MERRILL'S Dove Illus-ions at the International Tropicale '77 Revue atNew York City's famed Chateau Madrid.

SHOWMEN LOOK!WINTER IN THE BEAUTIFUL RIOGRANDE VALLEY - A choice HalfAcre, lot adjacent to the Expresswayin Mission, Texas.

Has 3 new concrete patios, walks andhook ups for travel travel trailers.

- Palm trees, shrubs, grass -

THIS IS A TOP LOCATION

Will Sacrifice for $10,000

R. E. LEONARDP. O. Box 332

Manhattan, Kansas - 66502

WAYNE BOLZ handled the announcing andnovelties last month with Franzen Bros. Circus,while his wife, DONNA, worked on the frontdoor and in the cookhouse. Their daughterHEIDI did web and single trapeze in the showprogram and TRACY worked concessions withIVAN and MARSHA KROW.

IF YOU WANT THE JOB DONE RIGHT!

CARL E . C O N L E Y(30 YEARS IN CIRCUS BUSINESS)

JUGGLING-LIBERTY HORSE ACT

ANNOUNCER

'77 SEASON WITH ROYAL BROS. CIRCUS

A-1 CONCESSION MGR. and SIDE SHOW MGR,

Year Round Address: 2635 Norton Road Kent, Ohio 44240

August 22, 1977

THE MUSICThe following musical score was compiledCircus, produced by Earl Tegge. The showTegge.

OVERTURE -FanfareBillboard MarchCircus On ParadeSunny land WaltzesBe A ClownGreatest Show On Earth

Introduction of Earl

INTRODUCTION OF EARL TEGGEChord

RAIJA DUO - BalancingFive Foot TwoAngryTangerineHindustan

Clowns -Goof us

DICK FRANCO and AWADA - JugglingMambo JamboBim Bam BumWatch What HappensEl Cumbanchero

for the 1977 tour of the TNT & Royal Olympic's organist is Louise Tegge and its drummer is Tim

BOOK PITCH -MARYSE BEGARY - Single Trapeze

Circus On ParadeTrapezeUnder Paris SkiesCircus Days Galop

BURKETT DUO - Aerial PerchTrapezeEstrellitaStardustCircus Days Galop

JOHNSON'S BEARSJungle QueenTeddy Bears PicnicMexican Hat DanceSabre Dance

FINALEStrike Up The Band

Note: The Burkett Duo and Johnson's Bearsare "special request" acts which appear at se-lected malls.

WANTEDS T U D E N T C I R C U S P E R S O N N E L for the fall tour of Circus Kirk

— Ages 18 - 26. Join Labor Day weekend. Good o p p o r t u n i t y for

s t u d e n t s t a k i n g off a semester or those who have just graduated .

N E E D — P e r f o r m e r s for M a i n Show and Side Show, M u s i c i a n s on

brass , p lus d r u m s and organist , Riggers, Vendors, Useful people.Salary a c c o r d i n g to experience:

F U L L C O O K H O U S E , Sleeping Quarters and Transportat ion

A P P L Y AT O N C E ! ! !

C I R C U S K I R K

P. 0. Box 181 East Ber l in , Pa. 17316

Phone: (717) 259-9117

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