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An unidentified parachutist jumped safely offthe 110th-floor observation deck of the 1353foot World Trade Center in New York on Sep.13th, and landed safety on the ground. Hethen sped off in a waiting car.

The jump was the fourth successful stunt fromthe world's second largest building. In 1977,George Willig scaled one of the twin towers.In 1974, Philippe Petit walked a tightrope be-tween the two towers and in 1975 OwenQuinn jumped with a parachute.

CANADIAN SHOW CLOSES

The French Quebec show "Le Cirque Inter-nationale" closed three weeks earlier than itsscheduled Sept. 14th closing date. The inves-tors (a different group from that of previousyears) reportedly have suffered a loss of over$100 thousand.

Business was spotty throughout most of theseason and there had been some reports theadvance promotion was not quite up to par.In any event, all of the acts had been paid,and it seems unlikely that the show will re-turn to the road in 1981.

American acts appearing with the circus in-cluded: Pat Anthony, wild animals; GeeGee Engesser, elephants and ponies (pre-sented by Roy and Pat Wells); The GreatHuston & Co., illusions; Tony and Irene Fos-set, boxing kangaroo and chimps, and DorisSchampacher, horse and donkey.

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On The CoverThis week's cover photo is a midway scenefrom a picture taken on the Ringling-BarnumCircus in the early 1900's. It was used to illustrate a magazine story about the Flying Clar-konians, called "The Man Who Tried 9,000Times." (See CR, Oct. 1,1979).

WeddingChristopher Romigand Michelle Duczyinskiwere married on Sept. 6th, at Our Lady ofFatima Church, Oak Park, Mich.

Michelle is associated with the Detroit Zoo-logical Society, in the accounting dept.. andis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Duczy-nski, of Oak Park, Mich.

Chris is a technician of his own piano, Nicko-lodean Restoration Co. He is the son of Mr.and Mrs. In/in Romig, known as Ricky theClown of WXYZ-TV, Detroit. He has alsoappeared in many circuses.

More than 200 guests attended the receptionincluding several circus people: Grace Me In-tosh and Chuck Marine, of M&M Internation-ale; Jimmy Douglass and Vem Woemer, ofCircus Creations; George DaDeppo, artist;Mrs. Elizabeth Rooney Romig, Irene Gilsdorf,one of the Sweet Sister team, Marvin Yagodaand wife Jean, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kirchner,Mr. and Mrs. Klayo and several others of theMusic Box Society.

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Show DatesBig John Strong Circus

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Carson & Barnes CircusSep. 29 Dickson, Tenn.

30 HuntingtonOct. 1 Dresden

2 Paducah, Ky.3 Herrin, III.4 Salem

Hubert Castle CircusOct. 2 Okla. City, Okla.

Circus VargasOct. 3-5 Baton Rouge.La

Gil Gray CircusSep. 30-Oct. 6 Austin Jex

Great American CircusOct. 1 Sandersville, Ga.

2 Swainsboro3 Videlia4 Hinesville5 Claxton

Happytime CircusSep. 30-Oct. 5 Ventura.

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Hoxie Bros. CircusSep. 29 Foley.Ala.

30 Pascagoula, MissOct. 1 Meridian

2 Louisville3 Columbus4 Amory5 Grenada

King Bros. CircusOct. 3-4 W. Memphis, Ark

Ringling-Barnum - BlueOct. 2-12 Denver, Colo.

Ringling-Barnum - RedSep. 30-Oct. 5

Indianapolis, Intl.

Royal Hanneford CircusOct. 3-5 Knoxville, Tenn.

Royal Lichtenstein CircusSep. 29-30 Omaha, Neb,.Oct. 1 Fremont

2 Crete3 Lawrence, Kans.

Swan Bros. Circusto Oct. 5 Bakersfield, Cal.

TNT& Royal OlumpicOct. 1-5 Overland Park,Kans

Texas Shrine CircusSep. 30-Oct. 6 Austin, Tex

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Felix SnipesOct. 34 Niceville, Fla.

Irv WeinerOct. 4-7 Tulsa, Okla

Burr's Fun-0-RamaSep. 28-Oct 5 Fryeburg.Me

Century 21 ShowsSep. 29-Oct4 Laurel, Miss

Danbury FairOct. 4-13 Danbury, Conn

James H. Drew ExpositionSep. 29-Oct . 4 Cartenville.Ga

Foley & Burk ShowsOct. 3-5 Hollister, Calif

Gutis FamilyOct. 3-19 Dallas, Texas

Hall & Christ AttractionsSep 30-Oct 5 Waco, TexasOct. 3-19 Dallas

Los LatinosSep. 30-Oct 6 Austin, Tex

Mighty Thomas ShowsOct. 1-5 Austin, Texas

Royal American ShowsOct. 3-12 Jackson, Miss

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In Memorial*!LYLE J.JUNEAU (60), amachinist and circus fan,died Sept. 8th at Rockford,III. For many years he wasactive at the Circus WorldMuseum in Baraboo and atone time he was a rider withthe Loyal Repinski Troupeon Ringling-Barnum. Survi-vors include his wife Esther,a son William, a daughterMrs. Sandi Owens, two bro-thers and two sisters.

PEOPLECLAUDE and JEANNIECRUMLEY visited Circus Vargas several times during theshow's Chicago area tour,and Claude several sets ofjuggling clubs to performers.

JACK KING, who was oper-ating the side show on thenew King Bros. Circus, afterbooking the show, has leftthat circus.

ONE MORE COLUMN before I take a twoweek's hiatus to assimilate all the upcomingnews from the Texas dates. The Royal Hanne-ford Circus date in Salisbury (Md) Sep. 5-6,was a Red One (played in the new Civic Cen-ter) and the date has been resigned for 1981.Acts, other than the Hanneford-owned ones,appearing on the date included The Great Hu-berto, Los Latinos, The Rolls Duo and PrinceNajvez.

STRUPPI HANNEFORD. prior to the Salis-bury date, went to New York to tape a com-mercial for T I G E R MILK Candy, a new can-dy bar. The tiger she used was trained to leapfrom pedastal to pedastal thru a paper hoopbearing the candy bar logo.Included in Hanneford's 1981 route will be

Lansing, Mich., played in March for the Car-avan Youth Center replacing the old Hospi-taler Circus which has been discontinued. Thisdate will fall just before the Moslem TempleShrine Circus in Detroit.

THE HERNANDEZ TROUPE, now at GreatAdventure, will return to that theme park forJOE BAUER in 1981, from April until Oct.They will also play the Detroit Shrine Circus(Mar. 20-Apr. 5). (Also in Detroit will be twobreakaway sway poles and three flying acts).Manuel and Lisa Hernandez say they've en-joyed their run at the Great Adventure park."It's a good way to beat the high gas prices,"they say, "and besides, it's right in the mid-dle of a lot of fun places, not to mention theocean where our boys ride the waves withtheir surfboards every chance they get"ITEMIZING: Author-Publisher JOHN Me

CONNELL, now associated with the "frontend" of Royal Hanneford, laughs to thinkthat he has joined the circus while I havepulled a switch and "joined" the publishingfield - well, it IS an unusual switch... Mus-icians BOB and KAY PARKER are back withHanneford for the fall tour.. .MACK ESH-LEMAN visited the circus at the York Fairproduced by MOFFIT and said the show wassuper. Among the acts Mack mentioned wereLill i-Ana, Herbie Weber, the Coronas, theZamperlas, the Vidbels, and Dime and Con-nie Wilson. Mack, along with EARL MICH-AELS are now in Texas.. .The Emmett Kel-ly, Jr. Circus did excellent business at theCarter-Beran Amphitheatre in Washington,DC, over Labor Day, so reports Herbie Weber.

Acts at the Atlantic National Exhibition forBetter Booking out of Boston were: MC Ar-nold Archer, Billy Earl, vent, Helena Duo,perch, The Bertinis, bikes, Bonnie & Clyde,musical comedy and Angela Wilnow's collies.Also on for a one day shot was country-wes-tern star KITTY WELLS.. .SENOR RAI whovisited recently with ANGELA LANSBURYreports the star is doing the road tour ofSWEENEY TODO, having just returned fromEngland where she essayed the role of MISSMARPLE in AGATHA CHRISTIE'S "THeMirror Cracked". Also in the film are Eliza-beth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak andTony Curtis. Lansbury was aged for the partand should be a first-rate Miss Marple.. .Myneighbor JEAN STAPLETON played thatold-lady sleuth in a production of "MurderAt The Vicarage" at the Totem Pole Play-house only a few miles from my home. .MAEWEST has recovered from a mild concussionsustained when she fell out of bed a monthor so ago. Mae, who had a birthday in Aug.,is now 88 (or 89 depending on who is count-ing). . .Rai also visited with ALEXIS SMITHwho is doing the road tour of 'W-House inTexas'.

READER'S CIRCLE: MARC OLDEN, au-thor of "Gossip", an original paperback, has anew book out, "The Book of Shadows". Ifail to understand why this clever author hasnot been released in hardcover. His new bookis a first-rate thriller, fast-paced, pulse-quick-ening. I only wish he'd stop using so manyfour-letter words which I (and many readers)are growing tired of. There ARE other waysof getting one's point across) Anyway, it's agood book, put out by Charter, so pick it up.

GERARD SOULES, back from more thaneight months in South America with an iceshow, has signed the fall and 1981 tour withRoyal Hanneford. It's the first time I've seenJerry's dog act in ten years and it's excellent.All the dogs stand on their hind legs perfect-ly erect and he has a number of specialty dogsthat are a sensation, especially the Can-CanDog whose paws hold the dress and actuallycan-cans! The act is a show stopper, no doubtabout it, and features original ideas. Jerry us-es only poodles, starts off with a straight dogact combining several clever and fast tricks,before going into the specialties.TIDBITS: FRANK CURRY escorted JUNE

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Sunday, Aug. 24th, 8 p.m. was the last showfor the 1980 season of Cirque Internationale,the end came three weeks earlier than was ex-pected.On Aug. 23rd, a farewell party was given un-der the big top and I was invited with my fa-mily to attend.Fernand Brouillette who is the main ownerof the circus, gave a speech explaining thatdue to the lack of patrons it was better toclose the circus rather than go on and be-come bankrupt.A special show was given for all the person-nel. In that show Pierre Jean who was ring-master on one of the Gatini units last year,sang a few songs and made a few imitationssuch as Popeye and Olive, etc.The Great Huston was playing the drums andHanns Raedler was at the organ. RaymondMullin (Ray the clown) also sang, then Rancho'the Gypsy sword swallower and fire eater gavea show, by the way he will be with the KingBros. Circus as of the middle of September.The whole show ended about 3 a.m. and itwas enjoyed by everyone. Gee Gee Engessersold the two elephant-skin puppies to JeanOe Rome and Raymond Mullen, so they willtravel with them this winter.Leo Ouplessis the other owner of the circuswas unable to attend the party since he hadbeen recently hospitalized fora heart attack.

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CATCHING THE SHOWS

BY ALLEN BABCOCK

We had a busy Labor Day weekend here in Il-linois with several special events, all of whichattracted large crowds of people. One of thebig features was the Ringling Red Unit, play-ing Springfield (Aug. 29-Sept 1).This was the first time in 33 years the Ring-ling show had come here and so there was alot of interest in all of their activities. Theyplayed in the Convention Center which willseat 54,400 people. The opening night wasa sell out and for the rest of the performancesthe show drew 80% or better.The train arrived at 11:45 p.m. on Aug. 28,coming in from Des Moines, and was put ona siding for the unloading. Since there wasno show until the following night they delayed unloading until 8 a.m. The runs were IV?miles from the building.After the last show the tear down moved a-long smoothly. About 11:10 p.m. it startedto rain and by midnight was coming downreally heavy. That poor train crew got soak-ed before the train was loaded.An NBC-TV film crew was with the circus,filming for a documentary which they saidwill be aired Jan. 2,1981. They took a lotof footage of Gunther Gebel-Williams andespecially the "animal walk".Some of the visitors I saw at the Ringlingshow were: Mike Sorrel), Vernon Richardson,Norman Schuler and Bill Backstein.

Last month I had a nice visit on three shows- Hoxie Bros, played Oak Park, Circus Vargaswas at Hillside and Carson & Barnes were justa few blocks away. That was Aug. 23rd andall three shows were within six miles of eachother.

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The TNT & Royal Olympic Circus was plagued by the heavy storms that swept acrossthe state of Minnesota during August. Showpersonnel were caught in the middle of astorm while enroute from Minneapolis toEau Claire.Sometime later they had to hook up trailersand make a run into a shopping mall truckcourt to escape from 80 mph winds.On Aug. 12th, a storm struck the show dur-ing its Peoria, III. stand. However, there wasno immediate damage.

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CHESSINGTON ZOO CIRCUS CLOSES

BY JACK NIBLETT

For a large portion of the 49 years in whichthe Chessington Zoo Circus has been in exis-tence, Gilbert's International Circus, has beenin residence.Now with the Zoo (about 20 mites from Lon-don) being taken over by a new business or-ganization, it has been decided that this yearwill be the last of these annual Summer Cir-cuses, and the show was due to close on Sep.7th.Gilbert's Circus is owned by Mrs. Emily Thom-pson (nee Paulo) and her son Bill, and theprogram is made up mainly by members of theThompson/Paulo families, and designed primarily for the younger zoo patrons.The show which lasts about 75 minutes andplays twice or three times daily, this year in-cluded: Overture and introduction by Mrs.

Emily Thompson (ringmaster); Gilbert's Li-berty horses; Palomino Pony and Guanaco;Performing Geese; Miss April, vertical rope;Mademoiselle Yolanda, trapeze; Pigeon actby Miss June and Miss April; Clown Brunoand his Children's Band; Foot-juggling byMiss Yolanda; Dressage display by Miss June;Riding Machine with audience participation.During the war years, despite heavy bombingraids, the Chessington Zoo Circus carried onand even produced a stage version of the showwhich played at London theatres and at ArmyCamps. At this period several famous Europ-ean circus artists were connected with thecircus including the celebrated horse trainerCzeslaw Mrowcovski (Charlie Moroski), wholater left these shores to be with Ringling Br.Barnum & Bailey Circus.The passing of this show is sad, and much re-gretted by the Circus Fans who always had asoft spot for this charming family circus, par-ticularly so as it means that the circus willnot now be able to take part in the Zoo's50th year celebration.

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Hoxie Bros. Circus rolled into Park Forest, III.on Aug. 30th, the day after Franzen Bros, hadplayed to two straw houses in adjoining ParkForest South and a couple of days before thewidely publicized Circus Vargas set up in anearby shopping center. Business was not toobad for them, though, considering that ParkForest and the south suburbs of Chicago be-came a paradise for circus fans that particu-lar week.Hoxie has come through some hard timesthis year. Slowdowns now find them usingan old Beany-Cole tent and the loss of twofine acts, the Loyal-Repensky duo and WaltStimax's chimp act, which has left the showwith no animal acts except the concludingelephant display. Although a lone camel anda team of ponies were staked out in the backyard, they never made it under the big top atthe show I saw.A torrential downpour delayed the start ofthe 4 p.m. performance and, apparently,

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completely eliminated the circus march andparade that has always opened this show inthe past. One gaping hole in the top of thetent kept a steady stream of water pouringdown in front of the center ring throughmost of the first half of the show and a num-ber of people decided to stay home ratherthan brave the bad weather.

But the show went on and, although I missedthe animal acts and some of the other top at-tractions that this show has featured in pastyears, Hoxie Bros., is still good circus andoffers the fan and spectator some fine enter-tainment.The members of the multi-talented Campasfamily gave us a number of acts including thejuggling Les Dubois girls for an opening act.The girls return on the single strand for aparallel display and then join young JuanCarlos for a fast paced unicycle act. Thewhole family gets together for a musicalnonsense routine after intermission.Another highlight of the show was the LisnerDuo. As usual, their controlled, carefully ex-ecuted maneuvers on the aerial perch werecelestial poetry.The Hoxie elephants responded well to theirnew trainer and closed the show with an upbeat, varied display.

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PEOPLEMARVIN and JOANNE VARNER are enjoy-ing life off the road this season at their homein Dallas, Texas. Marvin is working as an elec-trician for a local display company and Jo-anne is working for a nursing home.

CHRIS BURRELL, formerly with the BigJohn Strong Circus, reports she enjoyed thePaul Kaye Circus in Honolulu last month.

PATCHES & CHECKERS, clowns, have beenvisiting JOSH SILVER in New York, wherethey caught the stage show "Barnum."

AUSTIN MILES suffered a blowout at theLittle Rock (Ark) Kiwanis Circus when hegave a mighty whistle blast that turned outto be just a puny tweet. He quickly borroiy-ed a whistle from fellow ringmaster AL LEO-NARD and the show went on as scheduled.

MICHAEL MCCARTHY, advance clown forCircus Vargas, recently visited with friendson Carson & Barnes and Ringling Red.

CHARLES BERTIN1. bandmaster with theBeatty-Cole show 1976-1978, is now employ-ed at Circus World Park in Florida as the leadtrumpeter.

BOB Fl LTE R and the Smiser Mule Train willbe featured at the annual Grand Nationals inSan Francisco, Oct. 24-Nov. 2nd.

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BEN WILLIAMS will be on the coast to filma segment for the upcoming TV show "Cir-cus of the Stars" with four elephants,

CARMEN HALL worked at Beaumont andGalveston, Texas, then goes to the DallasFair and to Evansville for Paul Kaye's date.

LARRY GAGNON, western performer, didhis whip act and MC'd the show, workingwith DON ANDERSON'S white horse troupeat the Rhinebeck (NY) Fair on Aug. 13th.

ALBERTO ZOPPE will have his animal actsworking on the "Circus of the Stan" showwhich is scheduled for filming this month.

HUSTON, illusionist, has taped a segment ofthe "Circus" show for Canadian TV and was

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scheduled to open a west coast tour today atPalm Springs, Calif. (Sept. 22).

BILL KAY delivered the Eulogy at the recentfuneral of showman Doc Bartok who died inSarasota, Fla.

JIM R I D E N O U R and son MIKE, working as"Happy" and "Blinky," clowns, recently fin-ished the summer season at Magic Worldtheme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Jim nowstarts his school show season.

GUZMAN & MONIQUEJOEY JORDAN andTHE GREAT MANCINI finish their season atStory Town in New York and go together upto Toronto to film the Canadian TV show"Circus."

BjLL KARLTON's "Fantasy On Ice" showwill tour during October and November.

VICTOR PONCE, juggler, visited with PAT-RICK JORDAN and JOEY JORDAN, bothjugglers, at Glens Falls, N.Y.

ROY MARVIN, magician featured with theLIBERACE show, will play Circle Star Thea-tre in San Carlos, Calif., Nov. 11-17.

VICTOR PONCE, juggler, THE CANESTRELUS, trampoline and JOHN CAR LOW, featur-ed skater are on tour with the Ice Follies andHoliday on Ice Show.

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RON URBAN's Ice Revue has closed a suc-cessful season at Lake George, N.Y.

JOHANN PETERSON, the 8 foot Viking giantalong with PO-BA the 3 foot dwarf, GEORGEEMERSON the guitar-playing fat man, EM-METT BEJANO, the alligator man and PER-CILLA BEJANO, the monkey girl, are featur-ed in the new film "Carny ".

KIM DIXON is working his "magic Mouse"at the L. A. County Fair. Later he will beworking shows for Big John Strong.

JOHN HURDLE, former curator of the Ringling Museum of the Circus, has a series of lec-tures he is offering on the lecture circuit, allabout the circus. He is also planning one cal-led "The Circus In Art" and is interested inmaterial on the subject Write him at: P. 0.Box 2591, Sarasota, Fla. 33578.

LLOYD STEIER and his "Whiskey WonderDogs" are currently working at the KyushoSafari Park in Japan. He expects to be thereuntil late this year.

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Victor Arata and the Osmoni Sisters, theArmon Duo, Deanne Paray, Vanessa Thom-as, Tracy Mayo, Pam Hellite, Darlene Dick-er and Bill and Jan Biggerstaff.Mr. Vargas' new 5th wheel, with its lush in-terior decor received many compliments andgenerated much conversation.Some of the other Ringjing visitors seen onthe lot were: Gary White, Victor Ruiz, JudyNightingale, Skeeter Reese, Miguel and Mar-garita Ayala, Tina and Werner Edling, Picalo,Cart Wong and the Farfans.

MIKE PIKE, circus bandleader, made his mo-vie debut in the new film "Honeysuckle Rose'which stars Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon andSlim Pickens. Mike plays a country westernmusician.

BILL BOUTHILLIER, former elephant manfor R6BB, is presently working with 15 ele-phants (African) at the Six Flags Great Ad-venture Safari Park in Jackson, N. J.

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San Francisco's annual PAL Circus, usuallyheld in late November, has been cancelledand there are no plans for its continuance.

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MiscellaneousThe New York photographic studio, "Inspir-ed Images" recently completed an assignmentof photographing Vino Berosini, "The Kingof Swords." Captured on film were Berosinidoing his balancing and acrobatic acts, inclu-ding his leap through the rotating ring ofswords.

After three years without a flying act in the"Circus Day Theatre" at Circus World Park,they now close the big show with "The Fly-ing Robins."

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MiscellaneousSome 800 delegates attended the AmericanAssociation of Zoological Parks & Aquar-iums conference in Chicago, which openedon Sept. 15th.

Ringling-Bamum grossed $1.2 million duringits July 15-30 engagement at the Forum inSouthern California. The figure represents anincrease of 15% over business there last year.

CBS-TV is reportedly filming a special aboutthrill acts at Great Adventure Park. The showwill probably be aired early next year.

THE PICCOLO'S spent several days visitingwith friends on the Carson & Barnes Circuslast month.

ABE "Korky" GOLDSTEIN, last of the old'Keystone Kops' is doing clown and comedymagic shows for children's parties in the LosAngeles area. He was in Clown Alley on theRmgling-Barnum show in 1919.

CIRCUS EUROPA

BY BILL WALTERS

Alberto Zoppe's Circus Europa appeared atthe Barton Coliseum in L i t t le Rock, Ark. onSept. 6th, and presented three shows. Thiswas the 9th "Small Fry Circus" sponsoredby the North Little Rock Kiwanis Club.This was a very fine show with a well balan-ced program, featuring Tino Wallenda Zop-pe on the high wire. Other acts included:Rev. Austin Miles (show business ringmas-ter); At Leonard, singing ringmaster; Leo Mas-cito leading a very fine six piece band; MissOlita, slide for life; Eddie Schmitt, 10 tigers;Bertinis and Olmedas, bikes; Clairinaka andValla Duo, low wire; Col. K. P., comedy tank;Olmedas Horses; Olinka, swinging trapeze, up-side down walk, swinging head stand; BennyWilliams, elephant and ocelot; Zoppe RidingSchool; Etna's Chimps (roller skating, ironjaw, motorcycles}; two rings of elephantswith Eddie Schmitt and Buckles Woodcock;the Rossini Rocket Car.

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Afjrce/JaneoufThe Diamond Variety Circus, featuring DavidUpton and his uncaged mountain lion, playeda Sept. 19th engagement at Independence,Kansas.

The 42nd National Gathering Convention ofthe CMB will be held at West Friendship, Md.the week of July 12-19,1981.

The Alberto Zoppe produced "Circus Europe'played to big crowds at Little Rock, Ark., <*\\Sept. 6th.

Sept. 14 - A Circus Vargas semi, traveling be-tween Mt. Prospect and Homewood, III., wentoff the Kennedy Expressway. Local officialsreport several small lead stock animals, zebra,llama, etc., were killed in the crash. The dri-ver apparently suffered only minor injuriesand at press time it was not known just howextensively the truck was damaged.

Earlier while in the Chicago area a show ele-phant broke its leg. An operation, assistedby 7 veterinarians, was performed and it isreported that the animal is doing very well.

in theT A R Z A N RIGHT'S CASEThe heirs of author Edgar Rice Burroughshave lost an appeal of a federal judge's refus-al to block Metrn-Goldwyn-Mayer from ma-king a new "Tarzan" movie pending resolu-tion of a copyright infringement suit.The MGM remake of "Tarzan, The Ape Man'is scheduled to start filming this month withBo Derek starring as "Jane."The Burroughs heirs filed suit last May, seek-ing to have MGM enjoined from making thefilm on grounds that it did not purchase li-censing rights.However, U. S. District Judge Henry Werker(New York) refused to bar the scheduledfilming pending resolution of the suit. Hisruling was partially based on MGM's argu-ment that it might have to scrap plans tomake the movie if filming is held up.

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Reading about the death of Duncan Renatdobrings to mind the time that he (The CiscoKid) and Leo Carillo (Pancho) appeared atthe Cleveland Arena in a rodeo, around 1957or so.The floor was covered with dirt and we hadour usual cattle wire around the hockey fenceThe Cisco Kid in his dark western outfit andPancho, wearing that Mexican hat, rode allaround the arena floor as the kids werescreaming their names.After the performance the kids would lineup for autographs in front of the arena.Bothof the men would sign their names and havefun talking with the kids. It was obvious thetwo men liked children.Even in the evenings after they left the arenathey'd put on little western skits at the localeating places. They would wander in, shakehands with the people and do little fun andgames things. Everyone certainly enjoyed itand I think the feeling was mutual.Now, both are gone, but their fans will al-ways remember them. Of course, in 1956the Cisco Kid was featured with the ClydeBeatty Circus.

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Gary Wells, a motorcycle daredevil attemptinga feat that defied Evel Knievel, crashed in to awall after a 170 foot leap over the fountains atCaesar's Palace in Las Vegas (Sep. 15) and suf-fered serious injuries.Hospital officials said they were "optimistic"about his survival. He suffered a tear in themain artery of his heart, broke both legs, frac-tured his pelvis and has a concussion.The 23 year old motorcyclist had completedthe jump when his bike hit the edge of thelanding ramp, skidded along the parking lotand crashed into the wall. Six spectatorswere injured when they fell 15 feet as thewall gave way.The jump was being filmed for TV's "That'sIncredible" show.Earlier this year Steve Lewis was injured dur-ing a filming for that show. He had made se-veral successful jumps over speeding cars,then as he attempted to jump over two heapparently missed his timing and was injured.Several years ago Evel Knievel tried to jumpover the fountains at Ceasar's Palace but fail-ed. He suffered numerous broken bones atthat time.

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MOST SHOW PEOPLE get what they de-serve ... only the successful admit it.

WITH ALL THE ADVICE that some circuspeople have you'd think there would be lessgrief for the management

MANY SHOWMEN have faced disaster andsurvived, while others gave up after the firstbad break.

TO ALL CIRCUS FANS ... you're gettingold when you go to see a circus... just toplease the grand children.

UNCLE SAME says the life of a paper dol-lar is almost 11 months... most show peoplenever had them die in their hands.

THE WEATHER

The Weather Bureau reports that most of thenation can expect mild temperatures and anincrease in rain through mid-October. Theeastern portion of the country will have abovenormal temperatures, while in the west tem-peratures will be below normal.Rain can be expected through the mid-west,the deep south and along the Atlantic shore-line.


BILLY BARTON (Continued)

DEWSBURY to visit the Hanneford Circusduring its Purchase (NY) Am Festival Date,arriving moments after I had left to drive toCape Cod.. .In speaking with June as I write .this, she was off on another outing withFrank to see the B'way show "Home", join-ed also by RICHARD GRAYSON, one-time ,manager of "Disney On Parade".. .Lit t leNELLIE HANNEFORD isn't so tittle any-more - has grown quite tall and is filling outin all the expected places. In addition toworking in the elephant number, she is alsodoing a bird act and riding menage. And, inthe elephant number believe it or not isCHERYL JONES, looking quite glamorousand doing an excellent job. MARK KAROLYworks the elephant act riding horseback andthen the horse is taken out and he does a ser-ies of spectacular routines including a backsomersault while one bull is rolling a barreland, of course, the somersault from teeter-board to elephant's head. Mark has becomequite an exciting ring personality with a dis-tinctive style all his own.. .The ROLLS DUOwill spot date on Hanneford this fall and SA-TANI DEMON will play the Baltimore date

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with Hanneford for the fall tour.. .HEINZSHAPPI, now in Texas, played DC for Em-mett Kelly, Jr. and then went to some fairdates in New Jersey. ... Joiningthe restauranteers (Jeanette Bale in Venice,The Barredas in Edmond, Okla) are the CA-V A R E T T A S with a family restaurant in LasVegas called "La Caretta" which is a charm-ing, intimate Mexican eatery complete withstrolling crooners.. .Word is that BEN WIL-LIAMS will be in the west to film "Circusof The Stars" with four elephants.. Sched-uled for the Gil Gray Circus at the DallasFair are Jimmy Hall, the Luvas Family, theGutis, Carmen Hall, and the Fossett's bikeact.. .WALLY ROSS returned to L.A. af-ter five months in Florida where he trainedan elephant to water ski, then he flew eastto catch the Vargas show in the Chicagoarea.. .THOMAS K. SCALLEN is prexy ofthe arenic division of the new Beatty-Coleoperation. That show's first indoor stanzawill be at Pittsbugh, Oct. 29.. .RBBB pos-ted its first-ever $1.2 million gross at the

Forum, a 15% increase over 1979 and a 50%increase in walk-up biz.. .'Disney On Ice/the new Fetd show, opened in Las Vegasin Aug.

The GUERRERO high wire troupe coppedthe big notices in RBBB's L.A. preem. .TheNugget in Reno bowed its new little elephantnamed after its predecessor Tina.. .SIEG-FRIED & ROY are back at the Stardust aftera holiday and a whirlwind trek that tookthem from New York to Miami, the Baha-mas, and the Far East in preparation fortheir 2nd NBC-TV Special. While attendingthe Tony Award winning musical 'Barnum'the pair were inundated with autograph see-kers. Their special is scheduled for a Novem-ber taping in Las Vegas and for airing afterthe first of the new year. Recently theymade their motion picture debut in "Look-ing To Get Out" starring ANN-MARGARETand JON VOIGHT. A portion of their illu-sion act will be featured in the flick whichis due out next winter.

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MILLETTE AMATEUR CIRCUS

BY BOB STODDARD

The 8th annual Millette Amateur Circus tookplace on the Mattock Day Care Center lot inMesquite, Texas, on Sept. 6th.Handicapped children from ten special schoolswere invited and, for the first time, senior ci-tizens attended from several nursing homes.The show was performed in the two pole red,white and blue home-made tent with one ringand two outriggers which allows for three aer-ial acts to be performed at the same time.This year, high winds furnished many prob-lems and a weak tumbuckle almost causedserious ones. All were overcome, but resultedin a 15 minute late start.A new feature added to the midway was fourcurved mirrors which added some excitementbefore the show.Free lemonade and popcorn were provided bythe Ed Millette Tent No. 5, CFA. More than300 bags of popcorn and 500 cups of lemon-ade, as well as one hundred 18" circus bal-loons were given to the small children.The show opened with a count of 340 peopleand the women on the front door said thatthey were coming in all through the show.Barbara Hunter, music coordinator, startedthe music; Loncy Leake, ringmaster, introdu-ced Rev. Victor Hunter who blessed the showand gave the invocation, and the opening spec"The Parade of Flags" was on.The first act was obviously the star of theshow - Wayne Burden, who stands on his headon a swinging trapeze - a feat first performedby Ed Millette (the tent's namesake), who was

a Dallas boy who ran away and joined the cir-cus in 1884, when he was 8 years old.Other excellent trapeze performances were byPeerless Fred Colson and a beautiful and gra-ceful performance by Shelley Birch field. Adouble trapeze act with Shane Evans on up-per and Tammy Treadway on lower traps.Harry Jenkins (who was also canvas boss) jug-gled and did a whip act with the assistance ofCindy Treadway and "oh my gosh" the clownIn retrospect, I can see that we were in for adifferent kind of treat when five "kids" walk-ed around the arena in the opening spec.Twoof these "kids" (Children) dressed as clowns,were 8 year old Tern Lynne Cromeens andher 5 year old brother Chris, who each led a"kid" (baby goat) on a leash, followed bytheir 3 year old cousin Jeff Cromeens whodragged a large mesh bag containing alumin-um cans and a large label stating "Goatfood"

No actor could duplicate the facial expressionsof this miniature, 3 year old clown, as he fol-lowed his instructions to "follow Terri andChris." The unconcerned - to blaze • to pain-ed expressions were priceless.Their act was with the goats who were sup-posed to "climb up on anything". Their re-fusal to re-act as predicted and what theychose to do instead was hilarious. One bit ahole through the outside of Tern's hip poc-ket and throughout the act real goat foodfiltered out thru the hole and Terri hadtrouble getting them in front of her.When the act was over and the roustaboutswere removing the objects that the goats hadrefused to climb upon, the goats decided thatthey did want to climb on them afterall. I hes-itate to use the word to describe an act, but



AMATEUR CIRCUS (Continued)several people said it was "darling."The clown unit was in charge of Jackie Jen-kins "Oh My Gosh", a 1971 graduate of theRingling Clown College. Other clowns wereJames "Jimbow" Decker, Carol "Freckles"Evans, Billy Baker, Geoff Cox, Dan Treadwayand Adrianne Wilson.Janice Hendricks did a high ladder and webact, Elaine Evans was on the Spanish web,Unicycles were by Danny Burke, Shawn Mil-ler and Vanna Walker. An exhibition of ropespinning was presented by Geoff Cox. Theswinging ladder? featured Stephanie Cox,Elizabeth Hunter, Kay Burke, Lisa Birchfieldand Lisa Plunk. The tumblers were Kay Bur-ke, Elizabeth Hunter, Lisa Plunk, Lisa Birch-field, Janice Hendricks and Tammy TreadwayThe closing spec "Salute to Children" with aspecial band arrangement of "Jesus Loves theLittle Children" with all of the small childrenfrom the audience who were dressed in clowncostumes and had clown make-up on singing"Jesus Loves Me/' was a moving experience.The front door was handled by Mary Lee asa greeter in ringmaster costume. Elaine Cro-

meens was in charge of the popcorn and le-monade with helpers Lou Flowers Stoddardand Betty Leake.Tommy Randolph was the official photo-grapher. The combination roustabout-canvascrew, who put the tent up and down andback in the bam, was headed by Bill Hooper,and included Harry Jenkins, David Evans,Herman Pease, Jim Decker, Bob Stoddard,Jeff Cromeens and Vanus Walker.The above names belong to the people whoseaching backs could barely muster enough com-bined strength to close the bam doors whenthe last piece was put away at 10:15 p.m. Theydon't remember much about the following daybut they do remember that they'd new couldhave made it without the help received fromTroop 108, Boy Scouts of America, Mesquite,Texas, under Scoutmaster Wayne Meeker.

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