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1 • The Beatty-Cole show is the first majorbooking in the 30 year old Cincinnati Gar-den since it was "shuttered" after the Hanneford produced Shrine circus in the springof 1979.2 - The show moved to Cincy from Pittsb'ghon 13 show-owned semis, plus private units.3 * Trucks included cookhouse and 3 bullsemis with 12 bulls. Elephant rides were of-fered before show and during intermission.4 • Show had 18 prop hands, 15 butchersand 6 dancing girls. Butchers at Garden hadsnow cones, candy floss, novelties and pro-gram. The souvenir program sold for $1.00(same as tent show with insert of act list).5 • Russ Oarr directs same fine band (8) asunder canvas. But music is less circusey.6 - Show, including intermission ran twohours and 45 minutes.7 - Tickets were scaled at $5.00, $6.00 and$7.00 in the 11,000 capacity Gardens.Peformance is basically a rearranged versionof the tented show. Acts added for indoorversion are:1 • Fay Alexander's 1921 Model T Car2 - Albanis Aerial Speedway (4)3 • A second flying act • Lantony (4) andthe Flying Alvarez. Acts work tricks in un-ison.4 - John Herriott family with two acts • MaryRuth's dogs (7) and 3 dressage horses, one ineach ring.

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FIRMIN BOUGUONE (75) a member of thefamous Bouglione circus family of show ow-ners and wild animal trainers, died in Europeon Feb. 17th. He was credited with havingstarted several prominent animal trainers inthe business.

MARLENE BRADBURY (44) died at Keo-kuk, Iowa, early this month after a battleagainst cancer. She and her husband. Floyd,were on the Famous Cole Circus and for nineyears they managed the Holiday Hippodromeshow. Mrs. Bradbury was bom May 10, 1936at Golden, III., the daughter of Frederick andFrancis Czence Ewen. She married Floyd Braebury in 1953 at Iowa City- Survivors includeher husband, mother, two daughters, two sis-ters and a brother.

GEORGE F. FACTO (90) died at the Ver-mont Veterans Home, Bennington, Vermonton Nov. 1st. He was on ring stock and drovethe six horse hitch in parade on the Kingand Cristiani circuses in the late 1950's. Healso made the trip to Alaska with the Cris-tianis.

DYER REYNOLDS (50) former circus manand collector, died at the Good SamaratinHospital in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 22.He toured with Ringling-Bamum some yearsback and was an avid collector and artistthroughout his life.

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DATELINE: Fort Worth - Opening Day, Nov.6th - ON THE Ten day layover most of theacts came into Fort Worth where the TeggeMall Circus was also appearing for the firstpart of the layoff and visits were exchanged.

TNT & Olympic was appearing at the Sem-inary Mall about five miles away. On theshow were the Obandos, Miss Loni (subbingfor daughter Barbara who was assisting hermother), Grin 'N Bear It, doing a new act cal-led Spiel/eug (Gary Baker and partner), EariTegge, ringmaster, Louis Tegge, organist, TimTegge as "Twinkles" the clown, doubling ondrams, and Tim's wife, Gena, who does amagic opening bit with the cast in the ring.It's a very nicely put together unit and I en-joyed visiting with the Tegges. On my se-cond visit I brought along veteran show own-er Howard Suesz who jack-potted with thesenior Tegge who had once been on Suesz'stent show. Hagen Bros.

That same night the cast of the Tegge unitgave a shower for BARBARA VAN whosebaby is due in mid-December. Barbara wasliterally "showered with gifts" and therewas plenty of food and drink. Also visitingthat night were Pat and Gwen Oavison, theFlying Ibarras and David Strong.ITEMIZING: CAROL and CARLOS OBAN

DO'S 3 yr. old daughter PAMELA is nowcrossing the wire with a miniature balancingpole. Cute as a button she is.. .At the TandyCenter in Ft. Worth (quite an impressiveshopping center, by the way) went SHAP-PIS, TRUDY STRONG and her Dalmations,RON PERRY. IRVING HALL and othersfor a major pre-publicity stint.. .MACK MacDONALD pulled through his cornea trans-plant with flying colors and will soon be ableto go back to his major enjoyment - reading.Just prior to his operation he spent the nightreading "Past Murder Imperfect" and sentword to me that he loved it. And Mack is ahelluva critic, believe me. Thanks. Mack, forthe encouragement.. .TONY and IRENEFOSSETT to M&M in 1981. They will alsodo Detroit for TOMMY HANNEFORD...CEMON and SUSAN will return to CircusVargas in 1981 with their sensational chimpact; also returning for a second season areDONNA and BILL BANNISTER and, ofcourse, THE FLYING ESPANAS with twinflying acts.. .HERBIE and MARCELLA

caught CV in Bryan (Tex) and report theshow did SRO business. The next spot, Vic-toria, however, was not so hot, and this wasdue to the shoppirg center not letting themin at the last minute and the show had to setup elsewhere. CV will be in Texas for sev-eral weeks (at this writing) and will thennose back to California where it will reopenin January.. .The GERALDOS will playPuerto Rico for Circus Odyssey.. .Appar-ently BAUER-HALL will produce theshow at a major fair in Mexico City overthe holidays.. .BOBBY HUBER has a newgirl friend, JEANINE, and the two-somelook serious.. .HERBIE WEBER cancelledthe date in San Francisco for SID KELL-NER. The airlines wanted over $800 forthe round trip.

DON BASH AM, working concessions in Ft.Worth, is still going the "bus route" - Trail-ways, now, instead of Greyhound, and thereason for that is he commuted from Oaltas.. .It has been reported that the CORONAShave inked the St. Louis Shrine Circus andwill repeat the Kansas City Shrine date play-ed for the first time this year. ..HEIDI andJACKIE KRAUSE returned the day beforeopening from their "vacation" in Las Vegas.. .JOHN LEMOINE flew home to Roanoke(Va) to visit his wife.. .MARGARET MeLEAN went thru painful root canal surgeryon the layoff and ERNIE had to drive backto pick her up and then return to the date.

STILL FRIENDS: When JOANNE PINSONreplaced sister DONNA in the cradle act withBILL BANNISTER on Circus Vargas whilethe show was playing the Chicago area theRingjing Red Unit visited and all of Joanne'shusbands were on the lot at the same time,wow!

DAVIDE ZOPPE has delivered an ultima-tum to wife SUSAN - "Don't show Billy ourroute". Reason: Every date they book I seemto book also. Now we are in St. Paul togetherfor Hamid-Morton.WADE BURCK returned from the Califor-

nia trip where he filmed "Those AmazingAnimals" and was full of enthusiasm for ve-teran actor BURGESS MEREDITH, but wasNOT so enthusiastic about JIM STAFFORDwith whom Wade had more than several run-ins. I wish I could print it all, but, alas, Ican't. Anyway - that show has had dismal

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Show DatesBeany-Cole Circus

Nov. 20-23 Columbus, Oh.25-26 Wheeling, W.Va

Carden-Johnson CircusNov 25-28 Hammond, hid.

Circus KnieNov 28-30 Bellinzona, Swtz

Circus World ChampionshipsNov 27-28 London, Eng.

Hubler Int't CircusNov 24 Amsterdam, NY

26 Glens Falls27 Saratoga28 Lake Placid29*30 Plattsburg

Kaye Con'l CircusNov 27-30 Wichita, Kans

Ringling-Barnum - Blueto Nov 30 Chicago, III

Royal Lichtenstein CircusNov 24 Denton, Texas

25 Dallas28-30 Ft. Worth

Royal Hanneford CircusNov 23-30 New Orleans, La

Texas Shrine CircusNov 25-30 Dallas, Texas

Wonderland Circus RevueNov 24-26 Walterboro.SC

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Amazing ConklinsNov 28 Ml. Pleasant. Mich

29 St. John30 Howell

Prf . Miller Magic Time USANov 24 Mexico, Mo.

25 Centralia, III.28 Galesburg29 Peoria

Tom OgdenNov 26-30 Rochester, NY

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Los LatinosNov 25-30 Dallas. Texas

Mr. SensationNov 25-30 Dallas, Texas

The Sikorsky*Nov 26 Baltimore, Md.

28-29 Wilmington, Dela.30 Boston, Mass.

SAMANTHA

Hi! Bet you never expect-ed to see me working showhorses, did you?

To tell the truth I nevereven thought about the idea.One of the girls was sick andsomehow I got volunteeredfor the job.

It's ok. but these horses dohave a mind of their own.You have to stay alert, con-centrate, watch what's goingon and above all look calmand pretty and femine.

Right after this number Iget to relax, so stick aroundand we can really visit.

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TWO SHOWS IN TOWN

BY RICHARD PCRALES

The week of Oct. 21-26 spelled one thing tothe residents of San Antonio and that was"Circus time" as both the Alzafar ShrineCircus and Circus Vargas provided youngand old alike with the thrills that can on-ly be derived from the circus.Starting the 21st, the Alzafar Temple hadtheir yearly circus, which was held in theSan Antonio Joe and Harry Freeman Coli-seum. The show ran for 6 days, with 14performances, with crowds ranging from"fair to good."The acts included: Irving Hall, comedy uni-cycle and bicycle; Poco and Slo-Poke, com-edy juggling; Circus on Parade; Slide forLife; Wade Burck, tigers; Les Moines, aerialmotorcycle; Isabel and Maria, balancing;Johnny Zoppe. ladders/juggling; The TagerTroupe; The Galombos; The Paulo Sisters;Trudy's Dalmations; SheryM's Royal AfghansBridgette Ballentine, aerialist; The Great Hu-

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berto; Johnny Zoppe's Rhesus Monkeys; theFlying Ibarras; Oresti, Awada and Ron Perry,jugglers; Smaha's Lipizzans; Los Latinos andLos Rainos, wire acts; Elephants and then theQuassars ended the show.

Meanwhile, at the other end of town CircusVargas was set up at the outskirts of SanAntonio's Wonderland Mall. Those of youwho have not seen the Vargas show are infor a real treat as it really captures all thethings that the circus has come to mean toall of us.

The acts are: Program and Color Book saleby the clowns; Circus on Parade; The Knops,perch act; The Diablos and Osmani Sisters,and the Zunigas, jugglers; Clowns; Dogs, MissNadine, Franconi Duo and Miss Krystyna,aerial; the Vargas Horses; The Zoltanas, highwire; Clowns; The Venturas, Armon Duo andThe Kneisleys, cradle acts; Carlos Twins,gymnasts; The Flying Espanas and the FlyingLarrays; Intermission, Wayne Ragen, cats;Miss Kathy, trick riding; Miss Irene and LeGran Robin, cloud swings; The Hugos andThe Gonzalves, rola bola; Elephants, Closing.The Vargas show ran 3 days with 7 perfor-mances. Crowds were SRO on the openingnight, but thinned out for the rest of the run.

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On Oct. 31st (Halloween) the Show TimeFollies played here in Decatur, lit., at theMac Arthur High School, with a 7:30 p.m.performance. This building will also havecircus acts early next month when the Ca-terpillar Corp. holds itx annual Christmasparty for employees.Since it was Halloween, Debbie Goetschitook her children, who were dressed in cos-tumes, out for a Trick or Treat period. Theyshowed me their loot when they came backand I think they did alright.During the show's intermission they held acontest for children who were in costume.The Goetschi children received a prize asdid several other children. Joe Daniels, theshow drummer, and his wife, gave cottoncandy to all those children who did not wina prize.The program on the show ran: The KeppoDuo (Tony and Iris Potter), rolling globes;Holveck & Co. (Gary, Jean, Tommy) ma-gic; The Zacherys (Emil, Debbie), juggling;The Ruwills, upside down plate spinning;Erik Adams, Jr. and Bobbi, dogs; Intermis-

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GALVESTON SHRINE CIRCUS

BY BOB STODDARD

The Shrine Circus in Galveston, Texas, wasproduced by Pete Luvas, with the announc-ing handled by Isabella Luvas, who also ser-ved as the show's ringmistress.The acts included Pete and Petrova, JimmyHall's Bears, Myimba's Baboons, Checkersand Patches and the Wonder Dogs, TrudyLuvas and her Poodle Revue, Bubba's Gor-illa Parody and several others.The 90 minute shows drew % houses or bet-ter for all four performances, which werepresented in two days. They even sold outof coloring books.

sion; The Great DeMille, wire; Holveck &Co., magic; The Boothrayds, comedy; Hansand Secrect (Ruwills), aero adagio; ErikAdams, Jr., chimps; with Florine Oler at theorgan, Joe Daniels, drummer and Wesley Ol-er, show manager.

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ANITA MORRIS, who stars in the upcom-ing film "The Magic Show" with DOUGHENNING, was shown on the front page ofthe Toronto Sun (Oct. 17) as an elephanttripped her and knocked her down.

FRED MENKE won 1st Place for the whiteface clown competition at the C.O.A. Con-vention in Merrievilte, Ind.

CLIFFORD VARGAS hosted a HalloweenParty for personnel of Circus Vargas on Oct.31st. Also included was a special Pizza Partyfor the show kids.

RICHARD PERALES (Buckles the clown)won 2nd Place for the most creative costumeat a Halloween Party at the San Antonio StateSchool for the Mentally Retarded where he isemployed.

EDITH JOHNSTON, of Sheldon, III., recent-ly played host to MIKE and SALLY LaTORRES, elephant and birds, LEE STEVENS,poodles, BILL BRICKLE. poodles and PHILand LINOA CHANDLER, illusionists, dogsand doves, who spent off-time at her farm.

JERRY GOODSPEED, ventriloquist, has re-turned to New York and is working at theClub Ibis in that city.

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JOEY JORDAN, juggler, reports he will openin either Montreal or Las Vegas after finishinghis tour with an ice show.

JOHN LOUIS, dancer, wilt close at the QueenElizabeth Club on Jan. 1,1981.

RUSSELL FEIG, mime, is performing at Dis-cos in New York.

JUDY LYNN, country western singer, whoearly this year announced her retirement, ispresently starring at the Nugget in Sparks,Nevada.

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FROM ROXY ENGCSSER

Engesser's Exotic Felines crossed the U. S.from Central Michigan to Kansas, duringwhich the rear end went out of the Winne-bago and you know how much luck youhave finding anything in dear old Kansas!Then it was into Tennessee and after cross-ing those beautiful mountains we stoppedfor gas and the trailer hitch broke. ThankGod it wasn't white we were in the moun-tains. It wasn't the rig hauling the livingtrailer, but the rig hauling the animals.A new heavier tongue was welded rightthere which made the trailer heavier andset it down on the tires, which promptlycaught on fire. But Don caught it in timeand all is well now.As the old saying goes • there's no businesslike show business!

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Phil Chandler's Illusion Show opened Nov.15th for 9 days in Indiana, followed by 21days in New Jersey with producer Sid Bern-stein. The show runs for an hour and a halfand in addition to Chandler, the show feat-ures Paulette's Peerless Puppies and the Lar-Itn Duo, rolling globes.The show and cast consists of: Phil Chand-ler, company manager; Linda Chandler, chiefassistant/stage manager; Lauren Chandler,assistant animal supt.; Mark Smith, props;Diana Yoxall, assistant wardrobe mistress.The Chandlers will be touring next seasonwith Hoxie 's Great American Circus, pre-senting their illusion act, dog act and Lin-da will return to the single trapeze.

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Early Nov {?} • Baltimore, Md. - Watt Kingsuffered a broken collar bone when an ele-phant hit him as they were leaving the ringduring a performance of the Royal Hanne-ford Circus.

FROM CIRCUS JOE VALENCIANO

You can tell that the season is over, here on51st St., South, in Tampa. A huge convoyof semis and large mounted rides rolled intowinterquarters of the Mighty Blue Grassshows on Nov. 3rd. Almost a week before,on Oct. 29th, some trucks from the Century21 Shows arrived at the Mario Zacchini lot.Now that the season is over, and the year of1980 is about to end, I would like to statethat the 80's started out good for "CircusJoe" and Bay area circus goers.This year three shows under canvas madetheir first appearance in this area. They are:Franzen Bros. Circus, in early March; Eddie

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Zacchini's 3 Ring Big Top Circus, at thestate fair, and Hoxie Tucker's Great Amer-ican Circus at nearby Bartow.Also, in Barlow, on March 2nd, I saw Prof.Miller's Magic Time U.S.A. Show for thefirst time.

GEORGE BARLOW III, of Binghamton, NY,was the guest of honor at the Pat Valdo-SigSautelle CFA Tent meeting on Oct. 25th. Mr.Barlow, a well-known model builder, circusfan and historian, recently celebrated his fif-tieth anniversary as a member of the CFA.

BEATTY COLE CIRCUS

BY RICK MC CONNELL

I have just returned from a trip to Pittsburghwhich I made especially to catch the new"building edition" of the Clyde Beany-ColeBros. Circus. I spent four days there andcaught every performance during that time.Believe me, I enjoyed every moment of itand do not regret making this 800 mile roundtrip for the occasion. It certainly was worthitI had only intended this as a visit, just to catchthe show, but somehow I became involved andwas able to be of some assistance in helping toadjust a couple of problems that just weren'tbeing corrected as they should be. Everyonewas so interested in getting things just right,so that the cooperation of all involved wasa big help.This unit is working under the corporationtitle of Kit Circus Corp., which has a smallgroup of investors as owners, and is separatefrom the Acme Circus Corp. which has theunder canvas operation.The building aerial rigging frames, 3 sets ofring curbs, 14 banks of 4 floor lights and 12sets of standards with 4 powerful ring lightseach, and other indoor rigging was purchasedfrom James Harrington, who used them inPuerto Rico and South America. This also in-cluded 12 aerial ladders, 6 for each frame. Theequipment is in perfect condition and beauti-fully decorated. This is a fine set-up.The show is moving on 11 or 12 tractor-trail-er units. I am not sure as all of the equipmentwas not parked where I could check it out.Here is what I did observe: 3 elephant semis,1 cookhouse semi, 1 concession semi, 1 sideshow semi (sleeping quarters for clowns, 24hour man, office personnel), 1 workingman'ssleeper semi. 1 band sleeper semi, 1 mechan-ic's semi (supply parts and sleeper), 1 semi forrigging, frames, ring curbs, electric equipment,etc., and one U-Haul single body truck. Then

Dave Hoover's own semi for his cats, arena,is there.The show is carrying its own 8 piece band (thesame as under canvas) which is augmented byup to 15 people where required. At all datesthe band is augmented by pre-recorded musicand singers for the production numbers. Thisis very skillfully syncronized by a sound en-gineer or technician so that it seems as thougha troupe off stage has joined in, and parts withshow personnel are so well mimed that the au-dience doesn't know the difference.The prop men and riggers are dressed in clean,red coveralls and are quiet, efficient and onthe ball, and do a real nice job.I wilt give you my impression of the prigramas observed at Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 29-Nov. 2,along with some comments as I list the acts.I would like to mention before listing the pro-gram that whatever my connection to this cir-cus has been in the past and present, it has nobearing on the comments that I make regard-ing the performance. To those who mightthink I am showing partiality, I say this is notso • I have been associated with many showsin the same way and capacities and on verygood terms. I have learned to base my com-ments on quality, good showmanship andpleasure-ability, and not on friendship or as-sociation, and do so now.

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus Program atthe Pittsburgh, Pa. Civic Arena, Oct. 9th thruNov. 2,1980.

Overture - Circus band - 8 pieces, augmentedwith 7 local musicians.

1 • Grand Entry Spec - Circus on Parade andFlags of Our Nations (Mexico, France, Nor-mandy, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Eng-land, USA). Colorful, appropriate music, nicecostumes and flags.

2 - Ring 1 Flores Duo, Center Ring, Albar-racines. Ring 3 Munoz Sisters {alt convergeon center ring where rigging is hunij. 2 acts

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BEATTY COLE (Continued)

front side, 1 act rear side. All differeent highacts, all 3 beautiful, well lighted, well per-formed and very good).3 - John Welde & Co., Russian bear act - in

center ring, nicely costumed, very entertain-ing, none better.4 - Captnwn Races - Clown hone race on

the track - an old revival, very well done, au-dience pleased.

5 - Las Verdus - rolling globes in center ring(3 beautiful girls mount vari-colored largeballs, barefoot, propel globes up 3 inclinedplatforms, then back down). A very thrillingand difficult feat, well done, much applause.

6 - Popeye and Olive Oil, in Ring 3 a shortskit, show pitch (actors mime taped voices,very well done, quite pleasing.

7 - Mary Ruth's Canine Aristocrats in cen-ter ring (Mary Ruth Herriott's dog act, welltrained and very good).

8 - Aerial motor speedway - The AlbanesFamily - A high circular platform with a mo-torcycle rigging having trapeze on end of aboom opposite motorcycle. 2 males, 2 fe-males (Dangerous, thrilling, well performedhigh act, very good).

9 - Clown walk-around - Circus clowns us-ing own gags, some new, some old, kids en-joyed it

10 - Flying Lantonys (Ring 3) and FlyingAlvarez (Ring 1). Both do triples, don't al-ways make it, but usually do. Well costum-ed, well performed, very pleasing).

11 - Clown Weight Reducing Machine onthe track. (Old but very well done and getsplenty of laughs).

12 - Cemon's Chimpanzees in center ring -well trained, beautiful costumes, a crowdpleaser, one of the best in the business.

13 - Clown Fantasy - All clowns. ShowgirlsDancing girls and kids from audience dressedin clown make-up and costumes. A produc-tion number leading into aerial ballet.

14 • Aerial Ballet -12 girls, 6 on each sideover Rings 1 and 3. Ring 1 Miss Darleen, Cen-ter Ring, Senor Gabriel, Ring 3 Miss MarieChristine. High trapeze performing while theother girls are on ladders. A very beautifuland well done production.+ Intermission +

Second Half - Band's Opening Number15 - Dave Hoover's wild animals - lions and

tigers (some slight changes, cats well trainedand still one of the best).

16 - Clown Tiger Chase - gets plenty oflaughs.

17 - Antonio-Julio Bros. (Ring 1), Los Ar-gentines (Ring3). Both ground perch acts,difficult, well done, very good.

18 - Al's Lemon-zeen - Fay Alexander, dri-ver and clown (This is the former Funny Fordused by Ernie Wiswell that old-timers knew).Fay does marvelous job, audience liked it.19 - The Herriotts - Equestrians in all three

rings. Mary Ruth (Ring 1), John Herriott (incenter), Miss W. Herriott (Ring 3). Horseman-ship, equestrian and dressage at its best.

20 - The Wee Gets in center ring - Head-to-head, hand to body, hand-to-hand stands ona raised platform, with stairs. Many difficultpositions, closing with couple hands-to-bodyand hands to platform. Descent on stairs tofloor (3 people, 2 girls, 1 man). A real showstopper, different, unusual, very good.

21 - Giant Wheel at end of arena - Danger-ous, thrilling, exciting and very well done.Pleased audience.22 - Martini- Trio, teeterboard (Ring 1), Ro-

berto Trio, (Center) pole/acrobat balance, Es-trada Trio (Ring 3) teeterboard (all unusualtype, well done, quite good).

23 - Elephant Safari (all 3 rings) This is stillthe good elephant act that has been a regularfeature on the show. Closing with the longmount. But the music bears no resemblanceto what one usually hears with such acts, al-though it does go with the decor and costum-ing well enough. This is the only part of theshow that I cannot praise. The act is still topsbut the music is too far out.

24 - Vashek Duo - motorcycle on an inclinedcable to top balcony. Male rider, female acro-bat on trapeze hung below cycle (very excitingexhibit of motorcycle stunting. Has flash andthrills, unusual entertainment, performed verywell).

25 - Finale - Salute to America Land of theFree - All performers are specially costumed,fireworks in Rings 1 and 3, dancers in centerring. Huge American flag dropped open atend of arena, as soon as musical salute ends.A short pause and announcement made, asband starts again and performers exit, thusconcluding program. (This was very stirringand well presented).

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BEATTY.COLE (Continued)+ My Closing comments:

This is a real first class circus production,plenty of thrill and unusual acts. Beautifulproduction numbers and music speciallyarranged without taking away a lot of goodcircus numbers. All of it played by the bestcircus band on the road today, augmentedby skillfully injected pre-recorded taped mu-sic and singing for production numbers. Theband is lead by Russell Qarr and he has sevenvery fine musicians who are with it and do atop notch job.

There are no lags in the program. Every actis in place, ready to go when the other act isfinished. There are no pitches and no sales ofany kinds.John Herriott is program director and Jimmy

James is ringmaster and announcer.

MiscellaneousA park in Los Gatos, Calif., has purchasedthe old "jenny" merry-go-round from Foley& Burk Shows. The ride, built by Savage inEngland, is the last of its kind in this coun-trv.

TIGERS SEIZED

U. S. Marshalls and Wildlife Service Agentsseized two Bengal tigers early this month,which were owned by Bill Smith, of Darr,Iowa. The animals were tranquilized andtaken by truck to the zoo in Omaha, wherethey will remain until it is decided what theanimal's future is to be.Smith bought the tigers in January at Pen-rose, Colo, and then brought them to hisfarm, according to the U. S. Justice Dept.Smith, it was reported, alledgedly violatedthe endangered species act and has beeonamed a defendent in the case.The tigers, a male and female, were namedBubba and Tonya and were part of a collec-tion of animals that Smith kept on his farm.It has been said that he paid $5,000 for thetwo animals and was planning to breedthem.A zoo official said the going price for Ben-gal tigers, among zoos, is $800 to $1000apiece. However, they are worth a greatdeal more on the black market.

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HUBLER INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS

BY DON SANDMAN

The George Hubler International Circus played Hobart Arena, Troy, Ohio, on Nov. 1-2,under the sponsorship of the Hospital Chap-laincy Council of Miami County. Three per-formances were presented, two on Nov. 1stand one the following day.George Hubler was producer/manager, BoomBoom Browning was musical director, JakeConover handled the electrician's duties andJohn McClurg was prop boss.

Clown Alley was ably manned by Cart "Pro-fessor" Gray, Wayne "Prof. Hardy" Liikala,Bill "Peppy" Slater and Jim "Jimerson"Snyder.The program ran as follows: Overture; Na-tional Anthem; The Big Parade, spec end-ing with elephant long mount; The SuperLokos, acrobatic clowning; George Barredaand 8 lions; Winky Blinky pitch by GeorgeHubler; Lou Ann Jacobs, high trapeze; Theclowns with "Strong Man"; The BoundingKarinas, trampoline; Joselito, high wire; Bal-

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loon Pitch by George Hubler; Intermission;Color Book sale by Boom Boom; The GreatSlater, juggling; Poncho & Co., Australianwhip champion; Senor Thomas, juggling;Winky Blinky Pitch by Boom Boom; SirChadwick Chase, and his car Rolls Rotton;Clowns and magic; The Keener* with theDiano elephants; Clown Sharpshooters; theFlying Valencias, (both flyers and catcherblindfolded on passing leap); Musical finaleand Farewell.Nancy Gray worked as helper in the jugglingact and parade, and George Hubler was theringmaster.

MiscellaneousA special "Mystery Spectacular" was pre-sented Oct. 31st at the University of Toledo(Ohio) to honor the late Jack Baker, whowas also known as "Or. Silkini."

Circus a la Mode, of Berkeley, Calif., has an-nounced plans for two special clown shows,Dec. 7 and Dec. 14th.

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JOE SCHMITT, Jr. is back at home in Hunt,Texas, after a good season as producing clownand announcer with the Al G. Clark Circus.

BILL BURGER, BIG JOHN and GUDRUNSTRONG. CHRIS KENNINGTON and BILLSCHREIBER have been meeting in Yucaipa,Calif., to plan the show's route and operationfor the 1981 season.

BOB-0 the clown was made an honorarymember of the Shrine Clown Club at Renowhen he played that city last August withthe Garden-Johnson Circus.

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MiscellaneousThe King Bros. Circus is presently planningto close for its initial season on Dec. 20th,and then will reopen in January for its big,full 1981 season.

The National Anti-vivisection Society hasstarted a national campaign to raise fundsfor its fight against those who use animalsfor experiments. If you'd like to help, writethem at: 100 East Ohio, Street, Chicago, III.60611. You'll be glad you did.

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ratings and bad reviews and is now downthe tube.

Evidentally the Kentucky Fair was hit bya very bad storm this summer causing injur-ies to some people, all the lights to go outin the exhibition halls and the Stebbingstop to blow down (their old blue and whiteone). All the performers pitched in to sewand patch and the Stebbings only missed acouple of shows. Their new top was erectedat the next fair. It is blue with orange trim.

The Houston date gave virtually everyoneon the show bad colds. Air conditioning inthe buildings against torrid temperatures out-side and high, high humidity. It seems CAR-OL A T T E R B U R Y and I received the worstones and neither of us is over them yet. Be-tween us we've taken enough anti-biotics andpills to rattle when we walk.

SNAPSHOTS: True to form BETTY HU-BE R's mis-directions are so great she evengot lost getting to Ft. Worth (and she playsit every year).. .Powers that be would notlet LEMOINE tie off to a certain point inthe arena so they could slide from the veryrooftop clear across the floor and so theyended up with the shortest slide in history -from one low comer to another!.. .KEITHand KATHY came in from a fair date forEDDIE ZACCHINI which they played be-tween San Antonio and Ft. Worth. I forgotto ask them who was on the show.. .ERNIEMe LEAN is scheduled to do some dates forTOMMY HANNEFORD in 1981.. .Rightafter Dallas, the indefatigable HERBIEWEBER takes off for at least two weeks ormore of Christmas shows and then he's offfor his annual Mexican vacation.. .POCOanri si n-POK E will plav the full run with

MiscellaneousThe Circus Vargas band, under the directionof Steve Curl, is breaking new ground presen-ting itself in both the traditional and modernstyles. Consisting of young college musiciansfrom all parts of the nation, the band, in thecourse of the show, moves from marches tofunk, from jazz to waltzes, with ease and ob-vious enjoyment. It is a high energy, youth-ful band, backing a strong performance.

Atayde.. JOANNE and PEE WEE PINSONstopped over in Ft. Worth enroute to Chi-cago.

BARBARA TATA suffered injuries withan elephant mishap at their winter quartersand was hospitalized. Just how seriously 1don't know, but I will get the details fromBucky and report on it next week.My mother remains in serious condition in

the Hagerstown (Md) hospital, but I did allI could while I was at home and must remainin Texas until Dallas is completed. Things,however, though looking up a week ago, arenot so bright now.Well, since - while playing the Texas dates

- I've "gotten" Davide Zoppe, Bob AtterburyBetty Huber, Susan Zoppe, Herbie Weber andothers, it is only fair that I now "get" my-self. Suffering with a cold, I sent Bobby outto check us into a hotel - any hotel, so longas it was close. He did and ended up in anOld Folks Retirement Home. And THAT'Sthe truth! I moved out, however, after theweek was up but not soonaoough for TOMMY BENTLEY to get a good laugh out ofthisl I can hear him nowl

SEE YOU down the road, luvs

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SPECIALISABEUE'S BABY and THE CRADLE

BY BOB STODDARD

The expression on this seven year old circusperformer tells something about how it feelsto be thirty feet in the air, without a net,when you are presenting your new act, in pub-lic, for the very first time.

It wasn't her first time in a circus ring thoughbecause Tajana Luvas grew up in the circus.

Circus blood runs deep in her veins.Her grandmother, Trudy Luvas, is still active

with her poodle revue and has trained the en-tire family in their aerial acts, including Strop-pi Hanneford (Tommy's wife) who, as PrincessTajana, is Tajana's aunt and namesake.

Her mother and father, Pete and Isabelte Lu-

vas, started their aerial act as "Pete and Petro-va"in 1961.

Her sister Tavanna took her mother's placein 1973 when she was fourteen years old andbecame a star in her own right, not too longago, just before Joe Lopez made her an offershe couldn't refuse. After their marriage, shebecame a housewife and had a taste of life •outside of the circus. "This," says Joe, "willonly last until her little 'trophy' is born. Shewill be back in the air in the spring."

Her sister Tepa was a show girl and web ar-tist from the time she was five years old, un-til she married Jimmy Hall, of Castle's Bears,and is currently with that great act.That brings us back to Isabelle's baby. Born

in 1973 in College Station, Pa., while the fa-mily was with Jimmy Cole's All Star TV Cir-cus, her early life was practically wasted sinceshe didn't become "Tajana, the Elephant girl"until she was four years old.

How does she feel about her new act? Sheinsisted that she be known as "Petrova" sothe act, "Pete and Petrova", still lives withthe third Petrova. She, "likes it a wholebunch because it's fun." She wants to growup to be a circus star; thinks it's "a greatlife." She's never lonely, has lots of friends.She likes "animals and she's around lots ofthem."

Sister Tavanna sums it up, "the little sniphas my job and she probably won't want togive it up!"Whatever else happens, the seven year old

"little snip" had a very successful crade de-but and was presented with roses sent by hergrandmother. The week old center ring at-traction gets tremendous audience responseand looks good.

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BEATTY-COLE (Continued)

5 • Johnny Luxem's "Wheel of Death" billedas closing act but did not appear in Cincy asLuxem was reported to have injured his backin Pittsburgh and returned to Florida.Route is reportedly booked thru Dec. 7thwith a series of short jumps. If these dateswork out the show will reopen indoors afterChristmas, otherwise the show probably willgo back to quarters.Show opens with spec "Flags of Our Nationsand closes first half with six girls dancing incenter ring and aerial number featuring trapsand cloud swing. Second half opens with theDave Hoover cat act (10) and closes with aperformer's walk-around spec. In between isthe tent show with added acts listed above.Advance publicity was excellent despite lo-cal media interest in the 1980 elections, in-cluding appearances by Presidents Ford andReagan. Posters, show cards and date paperwere up in all parts of the city, just like theold railroad circus days.The show hit the front page of the morning

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paper "Enquirer" (Nov. 6) with a 6 x 11 in.picture of Fred "Walter" Logan and 3 bulls,also got a % page in the paper's Entertain-ment section on the same day. Hits also in-cluded spots on local TV news programs.Dexter Fellows would have been proud toget this exporsure.

The B-C show is advertised as being in its98th season, supposedly tracing its ances-tory back to W. W. Cole in 1870. Howabout that?

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CIRCUS QUIPSBY KARL J. BISCHOFF

TIMES CHANGE ... show people who livefrom pay day to pay day used to be calledSHIFTLESS... now they're consideredGOOD MANAGERS.

SOMETIMES... in show business the bet-ter the Summer business ... the harder theFall.

A GOOD P.R. MAN ... knows if you tell acommittee there are 350 billion stars in theuniverse they believe you ... if you tell themyour show is as big as you say ... they wantproof.

THE WtZ of SHOW BIZ says... A lot ofshow people live alone and like it... buteven more live alone and look like it

ABOUT THE SHOWMAN who wound upin Florida at the employment agency ...the conversation went like this. OFFICECLERK: "What can I do for your SHOW-MAN: "I'm an announcer." OFFICE CLERK"No opening in that line, can you pick lem-ons?" SHOWMAN: "CAN Ml I just got mar-ried and this is my fifth wife."

ROYAL LICHTENSTEIN CIRCUSBY RICHARD C. JOHNSON

The Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Side-walk Circus played at three colleges in Jack-son, Miss., during the week of Oct. 20th.There are four in the troupe, with Nick We-ber in charge. The Royal Lichtenstein Cir-cus is his brain child. They have an array ofanimals; two dogs, a cat, a miniature honeand a monkey, and this year a beautiful blackbear was added.The Royal Lichtenstein Circus is one hour offast moving fun. It has audience participationin several of their routines. Their repertoirechanges from juggling to fire eating, to mag-ic, to animal acts, A trapeze was added thisyear and Nick Weber stated that he will havesomething new for us next year.College students across the country look for-ward to the Royal Lichtenstein Circus eachyear. On the dates I attended, they were ask-ed for a return performance next year.

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