5th Year February 2, 1976 Number 5

Hanneford Wins Cleveland For 977The Al Sirat Grotto Circus, produced by Tommy Hanneford,

will shift its dates to October for 1977. Glenn Parkins has sign-ed contracts for the Royal Hanneford Circus to appear there overColumbus Day, for a seven day stand.

The recently concluded en-gagement at Cleveland broke allprevious attendance records andpress coverage was lavish.

Clevelanders have hailedthe 1976 Al Sirat BicentennialCircus as the best circus everseen in their city.

Awards TimeThe Circus Hall of Fame, at

Sarasota (Fla.) will hold itsAnnual Circus Hall of Fame AwardPresentation on Feb. 7-9, with aspecial Memorial in honorr ofCol. William Naramore, who waspresident of the Hall of Fame

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A long 1976 season got underway for Stebbing's Royal EuropeanCircus when the show opened at West Palm Beach (Fla.) for a Jan.23-Feb. 1 engagement. It was the third year the show has played forthe South Florida Fair & Exposition.

This year's tour will take the circus into the Gulf states be-fore it heads north towards New England by way of the Mid-Atlanticarea. By the end of August the northern dates will be completedand they'll head south towards Florida.

New for the show this yearis a March 2-7 date at the FunCoast Family Fair at Punta Gorda(Fla.). Other fair dates willinclude Monticello, N.Y., LongIsland, N.Y., Greenville, N.C.,Shelby, Va. and Richmond, Va.Other Stebbing units will beplaying grandstand, indoor andpromotional dates in the east.

The show currently travelson 19 units and carries a bigtop that is an 85 ft round endwith one 40 ft. middle piece.New trucks have been added anda new 40 KW will be added to theshow soon. In all a season ofsome 14,000 miles is anticipated.

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RAYMOND DUKE will be work-ing as Producing clown with theFisher Bros. Circus this year.He has already booked many ofthe show's spring dates.

CAROL STEBBING is breakinga group of young tigers and leo-pards, plus lions for the 1977season.

JOHN STRONG recently visited Wallace & Rogers Circus andsays it is the best show of itssize he has ever seen.

DON F. SMITH showed hiscircus films for a Clinton (Mich)Children's Christmas Party andwill produce a Circus Nite for alocal Senior Citizens group thismonth.

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February 2, 1976 Page 3

Hanneford Off And RunningThe Tommy Hanneford Al Sirat Bicentennial Circus in Cleve-

land (Jan. 19-25), loaded with productions and complicated tech-nical affects, made a favorable impression on the opening nightcrowd. What normally takes weeks of rehearsals was accomplishedovernight and this spectacular production breezed through in twohours and fifty-five minutes - a mere ten minutes over schedule,something virtually unheard of in productions of sucl* magnitude.

Other than Ringling, notouring indoor show carries suchproduction, lighting and stagingeffects. The flooring is blueand white checkerboard celotex,with red carpet throughout thearea. Red, white, blue and goldcurtains cover the arena, thering curbs are red, white and

a great job, not only with thevarious productions, but alsowith the entire musical score.

Other smaller productionsinclude: "Razzle Dazzle**, an op-ening wherein everything revol-ves, spins, runs, rotates, on tirtground and in the air to origin-al music and lyrics in less than

blue and banners stream from the j two minutes. "Planet of the Apesceiling. I introduces Johnny Zoppe's new

j Space Odyssey Aerial Act, andthe "Flags of All States" final*-preceding Eddy Ventura's RocketCar is a colorful feature.

The circus has many outstanding highlights (see programon another page). The HannefordRiding Act continually winsstanding ovations.

Two outstanding productionnumbers dominate the first half:

There are very few announce-ments in the show, mostly voiceover, with four or five pre-an-

"This Is My Country", a Bicenten' n°uncements. These and spec nar-nial spec rich in color, pagean-; f,acion are handled by Philiptry, lighting and costuming, de-picting thp history of the U.S.

Morris.

and its moments of glory, andaerial

Visiting showmen and perfor-mers assess Royal Hanneford 's

the "Salute To Hollywoodballet, a re-creation of Hollv- i field as an important one> andwood's golden era of the 20's j there is little doubt that thisand 30fs, which was an instanthit with first nighters. Vocal-ist Ernie McLean sings such num-bers as "Hooray For Hollywood,"and "You Ought To Be In Picture;'

entry into the major circus

show will be the talk of the in-dustry for months to come.

and conductor Leo Mascitto does

HENRY THOMPSON is reported-ly painting the Sells & GrayCircus and will tour as its SideShow manager.

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THE GREAT MICHAEL (Mike &Patti Wudtke) juggling and im-palement, will tour with Sells &Gray Circus this season.

BILL BRINLEY will have his1" scale model of Dailey Bros.Circus displayed at the WarwickMall (Warwick, R.I.) duringschool week this month.

STEVE "Unique" McPEAK madethe front page news when he re-cently walked TOO ft. in the airatop a crane at a Las Vegas con-struction site. He doubled foractor David Birney in the 'Kill-er Clown' segment of TV's Streetof San Francisco and has walkedacross several bridges and dams.He now plans to walk across theBrooklyn Bridge.

THE HASSANIS have beenbooked into the Stardust at LasVegas for some 3 months with op-tions for additional time.

STU MILLER played a Dec.29date at Providence, R.I. withhis Prof. Miller's Magic Show,featuring the Diaz Family.

BOBBY BEROSINI has his or-angutans at Florida's Busch Gar-dens.

NOLLY and POLLY TATE recent'ly bought a new house trailer toreplace the one that was wreckedon a winter tour. VIRGINIA FEN-TON has also replaced the trail-er she lost this winter.

The new edition of the R-Bshow (Blue Unit) is described byVariety as being the top circusin the country. The show offersthrills, chills and spectaclesfor everyone with a total of 23displays in two acts.

The Jan. 14th review namesUrsula Bottcher and her polarbears; Jeanette Williams and herhorses; Charley Bauman's tigers;the riding routines of the Ro-manovi, Slavovi and Paniotovitroupes, as well as the aerialfeats of the Farias and Gaonas.Incidentally, Tito Gaona is nowdoing a triple blindfolded.

Crowd pleasers include AlexGautier's elephants in Red,Whiteand Blue Rampage; the spec de-voted to 200 years of the cir-cus and the wedding of Michu.Another feature has the clownsworking as gymnasts with a hor-se and mats.

Of special interest is themention that Elvin Bale was notperforming because of an acci-dent (see CR, Jan. 19 - Page 4).Also sitting on the sidelines isthe Tzekovi Troupe (wire act)because of a rigging accidentthat injured one of the group.

ilotel

TV's "Streets of San Fran-cisco" featuring the U.S.A. N9t1Circus was postponed last weekand will now be aired on Feb. 26

February 2, 1976 Page 5

BILLY BARTON * •

THE PLANET OF THE APES lives again! TOMMY HANNEFORD isfeaturing it, Manhattan lawyer MICHAEL MILLER and "Oli-ver," his Feature-Creature seem to be living it, and

HUXIL FLCKER underscores it all with the Gargantuan Gorilla he willtour in a special cage outfitted with air-conditioning and 3/4 inchglass windows. 1976 is the Yearof the Dragon. Sounds more likethe Year of the Monkey to me!

DATELINE MIAMI: The ORANGEBOWL game on New Year's Daymight better have been termed a"Meeting of the Candy Butchers".Pitchin' and Winnin* were TOMMYCLARK, EDDIE SAYE, THE WALKERSand JOHNNY WALKER, Jr., with hisnew bride, LAURA HERRIOTT - forstarters...

Conducting the Universityof Miami Band, CHARLES SCHLAR-

HINES and PATTY RUCKER re-turned to JIM NORDMARK's Inter-national All Star when it reop-ened Jan. 29th at Statesboro,Ga.Chuck Schlarbaum, who has moreband units than the Colonel haschickens, has one with All Starhelmed by JIM AMATO who was withHoxie last season.

Wind was against most ofthe acts on MIKE DOUGLAS theweek of Jan. 5th. Mario's MadHatters spent more time chasinghats than catching them, Tommy

BAUM recorded two sides of rags, Hann^°^d got wrapped up in hiscoat, and it was nip and tuckwhether Prince Najvez could evenwork or not. Camera angles on

i some of these shows was ineffeetI ive. Tajana came off best (Jan.il3). Due to the nature of the

ged and played for such circuses Iact cameras were forced to dollyas Sells-Floto. None of the mus-' in on tne cage< The Prince says

he is ready for Commercials."Onewas inserted right in the middle

Speaking of Music: The WIND1 of my act! It came off betterJAMMERS held their annual con- than I did!"vention in Cincinnati Jan. 30 toFeb. 1. Ever hear of three men DATELINE VENEZUELA: Acts

leading a band simultaneously? "f/!*117^1"! themselves a

Happened at the Ringling Opening bal down .here' To° bad businessDICK BARSTOW, BILL PRUYN, and lsn t as J011*' Reports are that

gallops and marches tor HeritageRecords, nationwide distributorsto colleges and libraries. Themusic recorded was written bytwo late composers CHARLES DUBLEand WALTER P. ENGLISH who arran-

ic has been recorded before.

RONNIE DRUM were the "Three MenOn a Baton".

Reports

"dance leaves """<* to be de~sired. (Continued on Page 13)

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Ready For '76 SeasonTexans are preparing for a busy circus year as the season

gets underway in that state. Dailey Bros, opened near San Anton-io on Jan. 10th and then moved into the valley area. PranzenBros, opened at Mathis on Jan. 31st and Mid America Circus willmove into the state in March. Circus Vargas also has a long ser-ies of Texas dates after its 1976 opening in Alabama.

Fisher

The "High Flying HamburgCircus" seen on TV last week wasfilmed in Hamburg, Germany withhost Bill Bixby.

Featured in the one hourspecial were:

The Flying Palacios - aerialNiedermayer's bearsThe Great Fattini - sway poleLos Diabolos - ladder balanceJoe Seitz - high wireThe Fischer elephantsThe Stephanies - balancingAdrienne's chimpsMonalito - sword balanceThe Robertos - trampolineThe Lucyx - wild animals

TV AwardsWinning awards at the 2nd

Annual Int'l Circus Festival atMonte Carlo (Dec. 26-30) were:

Golden Clown - grand prizeto Alexis Gruss, horse trainer.

Silver Clowns were presen-ted to: The Flying Farfans,LittleJohn (acrobat), Nicolini's Chimpact and Gert Aimoneit Barnum,wild animal trainer.

The Texas-based Fisher Bros.Circus will open their season attiesla.ro on Feb. 12th and will beplaying throughout the state.They plan a new program and a Bi-centennial production and colorscheme.

All of the show's rollingequipment, seats, etc., have beennewly painted - red, white andblue. Each of the show's trucksbear the title "Fisher Bros.1776 Circus."

JESSIE MOVER, wife of Chas.Moyer, recently visited herdaughters and family in SouthernCalifornia. She also visited theFrank Deans.

fc. D. WASHBURN (Sparky) iscurrently touring with the Dai-ley Bros. Circus in Texas.

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February 2, 1976 Page 7

G-M's 76 Tour SetPlans for an extensive coast-to-coast tour for the George-

Matthews Circus were announced last week by show manager Sid Kell-ner. We will open the circus at Parkersburg, W. Va., on April 1st,he said.

"We are working on a tour of 35 weeks, playing a combinationof sponsored and cold dates," Kellner told CR. "Most of our majorengagements have already been set and we are now scheduling thesmaller towns and those dates that will be used to break up whatotherwise would be long jumps.'

The program, Kellner addedwill feature a variety of ourstandard acts, plus several newadditions, thus making it an allnew and enlarged performance.A full 10 to 12 piece band willbe carried and Ed Russell is re-turning to handle the ringmasterand side show duties. "We'llhave a show the public will really enjoy."

The show trucks are to berepainted in red and white, andno new additions are planned atthis time. The big top, orangeand white, is still like new andwill be used at every engagement

MiscellaneousCommerford & Shea Animal

Shows have just released a newfull color brochure on theirvarious show operations.

Wallace & Rogers Circuswas held over at Lion CountryPark until the end of February.

King Bros. Circus plans tcopen their season in Florida onApril 4th.

Arrest MadeNight club hypnotist Ronald

Dante was arrested by FBI agentsat Santa Barbara (Calif.) onJan. 22nd after he failed tosurrender in Tucson (Ariz.) aspreviously agreed to. He hadbeen ordered to report to Ariz-ona authorities where he was tostart a prison term for an at-tempted murder.

The FBI booked Dante intothe Santa Barbara County jail,and charged him with unlawfulflight to avoid prosecution.

peopleELOISE BERCHTOLD is break-

ing a cougar, 2 jaguars, a bearand 3 leopards for her new 1976mixed animal act.

JACKI ALTHOFF's WonderBears and KATRINA's CossackChimps have been booked for the1976 tour of "Grande Circo y Ma-gico" Music Hall Revue which op-ened at Sao Paolo, Brazil, onJan. 25th.

The Circus Report

ROUTESCole All Star TV Circus

Feb. 2 Curwensville, Pa.3 Smethport4 Fort Allegany5 Franklinville6 Portville, N.Y.7 Clean8 Ellicottville

Tommy Hanneford CircusJan 30-Feb 15 Detroit, Mich.

Happytime CircusFeb. 3-8 El Centre, Calif.

Holiday HippodromeFeb. 2 Plainview, Texas

3 Mineral Wells4 Greenville5 Sherman6 Cleburne7 Waxchachaie8 Corsicana

Polack Bros. CircusFeb. 4-8 Louisville, Ky.

Ringling-Barnum - Blue UnitFeb. 4-8 Jacksonville, Fla.

Soviet CircusFeb. 4-8 Nassau, L.I., N.Y.

Stebbing Royal European CircusFeb. 5-8 Orlando, Fla.

John Strong CircusFeb. 2 Lakeside, Calif.

3-8 San Diego

OTHER ROUTES

American Freedom TrainFeb. 3-5 Albuquerque, N.M.

7-9 Odessa, Texas

New BookWhat's it like to be an

animal trainer with the GreatestShow on Earth? How does one getstarted in such a hazardous oc-cupation? Charley Baumann tellsthe story of his life in the cir-cus and his 25 years with thebig cats in 'Tiger Tiger" whichwill be released this month.

The 279 page book is pub-lished by Playboy Press and willbe available at your local book-store. It sells for $10.00 andcontains several pictures neverbefore published.

Bauman started out as anapprentice horse trainer and gothis first experience in thesteel arena when he saved atrainer who was being mauled bylions. That raw courage won himhis first job as a wild animaltrainer and eventually led tohis feature spot with Ringling-Barnum. Today, he serves as botha tiger trainer and performancedirector .

Charley tells how hetrains his tigers, most of whichhe raises himself. He also tellsabout escaping animals, how hewas gored by an elephant, thewomen in his life and the dailystrain of managing a performanceof the circus.

You'll enjoy the book andcertainly collectors will wantto add it to their circus library.

February 2, 1976 Page 9

POLACK BROS.Braving frigid temperatures

and a heavy accumulation ofsnow, some 30 members of the J.E. Warner CFA Top attended theopening performance of PolackBros. Circus at Flint (Mich.)on Jan. 17th. The show was pro-duced for the Elf Khurafeh Tem-ple and drew good crowds forits entire run.

The program, presented inthe IMA Auditorium, featured:

Tarzan Zerbini - wild animalsJorge's Phunny FordThe Aerial BalletSebastian's poodlesMiss Francesca - single trapeze

Willie Lenz - chimpsThe Juggling VillainsThe Flying MedallionsThe Fullbrights - dressageThe Canestrellis - trampolineResell Troupe - high wirePolack Bros, elephants

Due to many unavoidablecircumstances this debut perfor-mance was not without mishaps.The most unique was a completeforward somersault by featureelephant "Baby Mike" when heapparently lost his balance andoverturned while doing a headstand.

George DaDeppo

Black Watch TroupeFeb. 4 Baltimore, Md.

5 Hampton, Va.6 Raleigh, N.C.8 Charlotte

Mad World of MagicFeb. 2 Silver City, N.M.

3 Lordsburg

MiscellaneousSeveral Circus Vargas per-

formers recently worked a dateat California's San Quentin pri-son.

The Belle Vue Circus, ofManchester, England, was featur-ed on TV last week.

III Memoriam

CARL S. SMITH, passed awayat his Auburn, N.Y. home on Jan.13th. He joined the CMB in 1938and was an active member of theorganization and John PawlingRing. The ring quarters were onhis property and many modelmeetings were held there.

His brothers were troupersand worked under the name of theHardy Bros, (jugglers). Theywere with Hagenbeck-Wallace in1914-15 and Barnum & Bailey 1917They also worked in vaudeville.

Survivors include his wife,Ethel, a son Carl, Jr., and hisdaughter Lois Horsman.

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February 2, 1976 Page 11

S H R I N E C I R C U SThe circus program presen-

ted by the Royal Hanneford Cir-cus for Cleveland's Al SiratGrotto Circus featured:

Slide for life - Overture -"RAZ-ZLE DAZZLE" with Doubleday &Co., The Woods (cradle), KeppoSisters, Martells, Gibbs Storybook, King's Storybook, The*Dionnes, Maas, Jr., Aerial Re-volves: Misses Kim, Marina,Nancy and Roberta.

Tajana - trained tigers

The Astros - aerial motorcycle

Gibbs Ponies - Sanger RidingAcademy - Rosa's Ponies

Tony Fossett - bounding rope

"Salute To Hollywood" aerial ballet - Keystone Kops, Mack Sen-nett Bathing Beauties, Gold-diggers, featuring Marina Ra-delescu - Russian aerialist

Victor Julian - poodles

Janos Chimps - Gina's Leopards -Tajana and Rama

The Clowns

Planet of the Apes - introducesZoppe's Space Odyssey

Morris & Co. - Baron Von Frost -Signor Rai & Co. - illusions

"This Is My Country" a Bicenten-nial Pageant with entire com-pany and three herds of bulls

— Intermission —

Overture

The Flying Dells - aerialists

Winn Troupe - Inclined wire walk

King's Elep hants - Royal Hanne-ford Elephants - Gibbs Eleph-ants - a total of 10

Bertini Troupe, bikes - Hungar-ian Troupe, risley - DionneTroupe, aero - Sulo Sisters,rolling globes

Tongo & Irene & Co. - gorillaparody with chimps

Hanneford Family Riding Act

Eddy Ventura, Rocket Car

"Flags of All States" Finale

Exit Overture

The show's staff includes:Tommy Hanneford - executive pro.Leo Mascitto - bandleaderErnie McLean - vocalistPhilip Morris - announcerBilly Barton - aerial balletDwight Hanson - prop supt.Hans Winn - Assist, to producerDon Basham - wardrobeJack Burke - lighting

Spec created by Philip MorrisPlanet of the Apes, courtesy of20th Century Fox; Masks by DonPost Studios; Costumes by Eaves,Morris and Iris Keppo; Salute toHollywood created by Billy Bar-ton; Properties created by David(Wally) Jones; Music by Maas,

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Page 12 The Circus Repor

Word has it that Mel Sil-verlake, owner of Fisher Bros.Circus, has sold his show toJohn Frazier for the 1976 seasonFans will remember this reporterhad said the McDonald Hamburgerchain was considering the show.Last year some of the Fisher an-imals were on the Frazier showin Canada and the hippo died ontour up there.

Ken "Turtle" Benson willbe on the above show this year.He will be in charge of animalsand doing his juggling act. In'74 he was on Carson & Barneswhen he broke his back and hadto wear a complete body cast -thus gaining the name "turtle."

The Shriners of the North-east Louisiana Shrine Club havebeen thrown a curve by the Mon-roe Civic Center. The Shrinecircus has always been at thecenter in October or November,following the Longhorn Rodeo.Officials talked them into a May1-2 date, so as not to conflictwith the rodeo and now a stockshow and rodeo will be ahead ofthem from Feb. 9 to 14th.

An almost lost art is be-ing revived and that is the Cal-liope. A $35,000 calliope hasbeen built for a new $19 millionsternwheeler "Mississippi Queen"scheduled for completion thisyear. The Oct. 4, 1975 issue of

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The Waterways Journal carries astory and photo of the new 44whistle steam calliope.

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February 2, 1976 Page 13

BILLY BARTON (Continued)

MICHAEL CHERRICK's appear-'ance on the doomed HOWARD COSWEILshow was finally aired Jan. 10th.His act was cut, but what he didwas super-cool. This boy's styleand showmanship is superb!

FLYING MEDALLIONS into theMedinah Temple for Paul Kaye.This is the act JIMMY CAVARETTAis in and his appearance whereverhe appears should cause a riotthis season, thanks to PLAYGIRL'sfive page layout, plus nude cen-terfold!

It's that time of year whenNominations for Oscars rollaround. Why don't we have simi-lar awards for the Circus, withan Academy based in Sarasota runBY and FOR the circus industry?

Most startling rumor com-ing from Hollywood is that thescreen's First Lady Miss BETTEDAVIS will portray JULIAN ELTIN-GE on film - the famed imperson-ator who played leading ladieson Broadway in the early 1900's.

Until the 30's "drag" wasa highly respected art. Thetheatre had many such stars andthe circus was "dragging" it up,too! The AVALON TROUPE (wire)dressed all their lads as lass-ies, as did other troupes inclu-ding a famous all "girl" air-plane aerial novelty. GEORGELAKE was a sensation as VIVIANWHITE and SLATS SEASON did a"drag" slack-wire. As a juvenilebandleader HARRY JAMES was "Alia

RONNIE DRUMM is the newmusical director for RBBB's BlueUnit this season.

in the Alice in Wonderland specon the Barnes show. The "star"was BARBETTE who flabbergastedEuropean audiences. Last knownpractioner was JACKIE LE CLAIR(single trapeze) on Ringlingduring the LALAGE era when that

i show was still under canvas.

BOBBY GIBBS visited fivecircuses in Mexico in that manydays...Big news is that DOREYMILLER flew to Sarasota and| bought OSCAR's ELEPHANTS buti will not take delivery until the. end of the season and after theyi wind up the TEXAS DATES...Acts; arriving for the Cleveland datei in a blizzard, some tied up for1 two days, and ROSA GIBBS, withi camels and other livestock foundiherself sweating it out with a: truck breakdown in a garage only| 30 miles out of town.

SAM POLACK has added Phoe-nix and Denver to his earlySpring route. The "monkey-busi-ness" continues with the rumorthat Hoxie Bros, has acquiredan orangutan.

Hagerstown (Md) circusfans, Adrian & Earl have a par-akeet that immediately turns up-side-down whenever they say"Billy Barton". If I were onlyTHAT agile!

See you down the road, luvs.

Page The Circus Report,

Suit setMattel, Inc., has asked the

Federal Court at Los Angeles(Ca)for permission to sue its for-mer auditors Arthur Anderson 5,Co. They charge the firm failedto follow accepted accountingpractices in handling the Mattelaudits.

In Aug.' 1974, the SEC fileda complaint against Mattel alleging it had issued false finan-cial statements and reports in1972 and 1973. For fiscal 1975,Mattel took an extraordinaryloss of $16,400,000 for estimat-ed settlement costs of class ac-tion suits filed after the SECcomplaint. A special report pre-pared for Mattel in 1975 charg-ed that the Anderson firm wasnegligent in auditing financialstatements filed in and after1971. Anderson has denied thosecharges.

Mattel's motion to file asuit against Anderson was madein connection with the class ac-tion litigation in Federal courtAnderson also requested courtpermission to crossfile againstMattel, alleging the company andcertain current and former dir-ectors and employees misrepre-sented its financial affairs anddeliberately misled the Andersonfirm. Filing indicated Andersonwill seek punitive damages of$10 million and indemnificationagainst any damages that may beasserted against it for Mattel's'alleged misconduct.

In Mfmorium /\

LORIN DAVIS HALL (87) re-tired RBBB contracting agent,died at Sarasota (Fla) on Jan.18th. His show business careergot started in vaudeville in1908. In 1913 he was a part own-er of the Hall-Latlipp Circusand he went on to work for mostof the shows in the country.Survivors include his sons: PaulLorin, Jr., Robert, Scott andPhilip and a daughter, Mrs. Eli-zabeth Kimball.

AWARDS TIME (Continued)and one of the co-founders. Hepassed away in 1975.

Mrs. Bette Leonard, a longtime member of the Awards Com-mittee, will be in Sarasota forthe presentations. Mrs. Leonardtrouped with most of the bigname shows, and at one time wasa member of the Flying Zeneros.She now lives in Wichita, Kans.

CIRCUS PROGRAM (Continued)

Killinger and Schlarbaum; RazzleDazzle created by Tommy Hanne-ford. "The Big Show's In Town,"original music and lyrics byBilly Barton, arranged by JerryMaas.

Production Directors: Tom-my Hanneford, Philip Morris,HansWinn and Billy Barton.

Producing Clown: OOpsy.Specialty Clowns - Wally andCheryl.

February 2, 1976 Page 15

LAST.CIRCUS POSTER