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5th Year December 20, 1976 Number 51-52

N. O. Date SetEnthusiastic nobles and patrons have called this year 's New Orleans Jerusalem

Temple Shrine Circus "the best ever." Business throughout the show's run was"very good" despite cold, rainy weather and extensive repair work underway on themain traffic lanes leading into the auditorium.

The show was produced by Tommy Hanneford, executive producer of Hanneford Circus, Inc., He has, according to reports, been given the okay to produce theTemple's 1977 circus.

This year's show featured a Bi-cen-tennial spec, designed and executed byPhilip Morris and the in-person appear-ance of characters from 20th Century's"Planet of the Apes."

The program line-up included: Anopening "Razzle Dazzle" number; Ta

jana's tigers; the Astros, aerial motor-cycle; magic display with Signor Rai,Vincent Carman and Terry Morris;Wally & Cheryl, clowns; Irene Posset'schimps; Kay Lena's doves; Ganger'sRiding Academy; "Salute to Hollywood"aerial ballet; Sir Victor Julian, dogs;

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DonationThe Helen G. Bonfils Memorial Trust recentlymade a $50,000 contribution to Denver's St.Mary's Hospital fund drive. The funds are tobe used for equipment in a new wing of thehospital.

The lobby of the new wing will be named inhonor of Miss Bonfils, who died in 1972. Shewas chairman of the board and secretary forthe Denver Post.

Miss Bonfils' father, F. G. Bonfils and hispartner, H. H. Tammen, owned the Post andwere the men who started Sells-Floto Circus.

THE WENDANYSBETTY - FRED - HEIDI

OLD LAWSA few of the old strange laws in this country areEvery animal out on the streets in Berea, Ohio,after dark must wear a tail light.Crocodiles may not be tied to a fire hydrantin the state of Michigan.

Elephants in Natchez, Miss., are not permittedto drink beer.

SEASON'S GREETINGS

For God so loved the world

that He gave his only begotton son

John 3:16

LOIS and PAUL HORSMAN

Circus Memories

December 20, 1976 Page 3

Holiday Greetings

TO

OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS

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A BIG THANK YOU FOR

OUR PAST BUSINESS AND FRIENDSHIP

WE WANT TO WISH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU

A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON

AND HOPE 1977 WILL BE

ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS EVER

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Phone: (402) 344-4000

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ROUTESNolle Vue International I irrus

Dec. 23-Feb. 5 Manchester. Knglani!

tnir.i.-ll Ke l l> . Jr. CircusDrr 22-24 Washington. DC

26-ilO l a r r s l o w n , N V

John Strong \inas Circus - MidwestDec. 20 San Diego. Calif.

21 San ' .-rnardino22 (; ten Grove

— End of Tour -

John Strong \nias Cirrus • WestDec. 20 Oakland. Calif

21 Fremont22 Salinas

— End of Tour --

Carnival of BrazilJan. 3-30 New York, N. Y.

••• Knd of Tour •••

CHRISTMASGREETINGS

To All Circus Folksand Circus Fans

from

ALLEN BABCOCK

Ki'n ( i r i f f in Show (Magic)DM 28-Jan. 4 Hollywood, Calif.

Holiday on IceDec. 26-Jan. 2 San Francisco, Calif.

Ice FolliesDec. 25-Jan. 9 Philadelphia, Pa.

Prof. Miller & Co (Magic)Dec. 26-28 Westbury, I,.I., N.Y.

29-30 Devon, Pa.

Wizard of ( ) / ShowDec. 21 Jan. 2 Philadelphia, Pa.

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BILLY BARTONIT'S GOOD NEWS to hear that the Empress of theWhite Tops, the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus willassuredly be back on the road next season, and thatsnowballing rumors to the contrary amount to exactlythat now melted rumors.

KENNY FELD guested on the DINAH SHORE showon Nov. IS KEN CLAYTON and his wife are expecting an heir AL & SUE DAWLEY are back froma vacation in the islands....GEE GEE's Cossack Elephants return to CLAUDE DuBOIS' Circus Worldwhere Gee Gee will also have the elephant and ponyrides....ANTONUCCI's Chimps cut up on "HolidayHippodrome" where the EASTWOODS are givingtheir new unicycle act a "railroad" theme, includinga miniature engine and caboose as ptops....EDDY &JULIE VENTURA plan to unveil their new hangingperch act sometime next season. Eddy takes his Crater Crash back to CARDEN JOHNSON....PETEYKINOSH returns to the RBBB Concession Dept"BOBO" ZOPPE is recovering from a serious illness...THE EARLS' "Bonnie & Clyde Musical Novelty" opened Dec. 14 at Naples (Fla) at the WITCHES BREWfor a 5 week run BILL BRICKLE made the BOBSNOWDEN dates and BILLY RODGERS was withRUDY JACOBI's East Coast Xmas shows....ANITAKEPPO & TOM DESIMINI tie the knot Jan. 8....EORUSSELL is working in Universal'* new flick ROLLERCOASTER GEORGE HODGSON (Hoxie Of f iceMgr) vacationed on Martha's Vineyard KIM KRISTENSEN entered college to obtain his A.A. Degreebut first joined LILLI & SVEND on Xmas dates inOhio who were themselves joined by Sir VICTORJULIAN and PHIL & FRANCINE TEDDY STEWWART has completed his first hand-made gorillasuit and mask •- very life-like!

JERRY LIPKO will play tr • SAM T POLACK dates."No more chimps in the U. S as of Dec. 18." he «*...BABY OONDI. the Schacht's precocious pachydermappear* at the Great American Park in Gurnee (III)for the summer ...Great American and Hoxie Bros.Circuses will retain theu '76 big topv but the Hoxietop has been thoroughly reconditioned by Leaf....GEORGE CORONA is perfecting an unusual routineinvolving a unicycle on a space wheel ..BIG TOPici.the Circus World in-house newsletter made its firstappearance in Nov....EMIL & DEBBIE GOETCHI'snew Great American Circus Directory left the startinggate and is oH and running. We hope it comes home awinner.

A big hand tor a little lady: Veteran agent ROSEADAIR who has watched the great, the near great andthe not to great, come and go and who, despite rainor snow or dark of night, never fails on her appointedrounds.

DOWN RUMOR ROAD That GATTI CHARLES mayput out a second unit • under canvas. ...That MIMIZERBINI may spice the aerial line-up on Sells & Gray..... That SID KELLNER is disposing of his G-M Circcus. If that rumor becomes fact you can bet sonMATT, whose love of tenters borders on the fanatic.will continue to "follow the arrows."

CHAPPIE FOX was guest speaker at the EMMETTKELLY CFA Tent's 33rd anniversary banquet ..DON& INGA WOODS are back at their Ruskin quartersselling off horse vans. They plan a trip to Europe inMarch... .PAUL MacCAUSLANO. former Flying Armor's catcher, is now catching the FLYING CARROLLSat Circus Circus.. ..KARL WALLENDA, a dinnerguest of the Queen uf England recently, holds "open

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HANNEFORD REPORT (Continued)The Quassars,; The Plying Dells; The Winn's;The Riding Hannefords, with Tommy; SataniDemon; Hanneford's elephants; Dianos ele-phants; the Hernandez Troupe; the Vickinas;Zerbini Bros.; Eddie Ventura and the "Flags ofAll Nations" finale.

Executive staff included: Tommy Hwneford,

executive producer; Glenn Parkins, executivedirector; Signor Rai, ringmaster; Philip Morris,spec producer; Charles Schlarbaum, musicaldirector; Krnie McClean, vocalist; Dwight Han-son, props, Wally Jones, producing clown; Har-old K.ii/u, animal supt.; Jack Smith, officemanager and Janet Bailey, secretary.

THANK YOU •R O Y A L H A N N E F O R O C I R C U S

( T o m m y and Struppi )

P A N A M E R I C A N C I R C U S(M i j a r e s F a m i l y )

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A very special thanks tothe TNT & ROYAL OLYMPIC

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BIG JOHN STRONG'S CIRCUSGEORGE HUBLER'S CIRCUS

and theHOWARD SCHULTZ AGENCYfor a tremendous 1976

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Season's GreetingsTO

Circus FansAND

Circus Performers

ARLO and ERMA SPARTON WACH and

the entire SPARTON FAMILY

8111 East Garvey • Space 5Rosemead, California • 91770

INJUREDClown Mike Naughton suffered a concussionwhen he was knocked unconscious during hiscomedy painters act.As usual, the "paint" was concocted outsidethe building almost three hours before it was tobe used. The dozen buckets of paint froze solidin the 18 degree temperature.In a last minute program change the bucketswere rushed into the ring — unnoticed was thefact that the "paint" had turned to ice.When Pat Bissonette threw the first bucket atMike, the frozen block of paint hit him squarein the face, knocking him out.Mike was hospitalized, but released later thatsame day.

Santas working for the Sears stores must allattend a company school for instruction in be-havior and other related subjects.

to all wlin shared the (i-M \eav>n with me.especially LinJa. Eric. Dare. Bullet t and

Shell. Knhhy and Hilly. Peter and ///v AmazingCiilculatint; \\'ateh. Hig \ed. (inry Sa\. and their

l.ii-der. Mr. Perry. /.inp<> anil Harry, and of coursethe man in the Cineina/ii RcJ* Katter\ Helmet.

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Bob & Rosa GibbsWISH A SPECIAL

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO ALL FANS, P E R F O R M E R S ,W O R K I N G MEN, B U T C H E R S A N DBIG TOP HELP F R I E N D S ANDF O E S A L I K E .

Feliz Navidad!

A M I G O S

BOBBY & ROSA GIBBS

Rte. 4 Box 650Mission, Texas 78572

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TOM INAEINETTE

BlI.LY BARTON (Continued)

house" every afternoon at 4. During the Holidays youein't find crawl space ..SID & MATT KELLNER weresported working concessions at the PAL Circus....T R U D Y has made BILL new wardrobe for the QuasMr act a la FLASH GORDON SAM POLACK hasadded New Orleans and Ouluth to his '77 route.

DAREDEVIL STEVE McPEAK will attempt to ride a41 ft. unicycle on the high wire, hoping to achieve aworld's record, all of which will be seen or. ABC-TV's"6th David Frost Presents the Guiness Book of Re-cords" which sounds like a record in itself!

The Movie contract JERRY LIPKO is involved inseems to be getting the Green Light, and G A Y L O R DMAYNARD is gearing himself for his plum role inParamount's "Dr. Jekyll and P. W. Grant" An aerial act combination is filing suit against a tent showover a broken contract MARLENE & ARTHURGROTEFENT celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary • says Marlene: "A lot of water has rolledoff the big top since then." (I guess!).

The colorful posters designed for CIRCUS ODYSSEYare unique and original and extremely eye-catchingWoman's Lib makes its mark: Famous Hunt will carryan all girl clown alley headed by MARY WISE andBARBARA HUNTER and CAROL GILLETTEMARSHA HUNT had her elephant ride and pett ingzoo at shopping centers in New Jersey and told meshe finally moved the REVLON GIRLS (her pet lambs)to the barn and they're very happy about it!.. Husband DON JONES made the Fair Convention in LasVegas....VEND VENITO is set for the Circus Odysseyrun in Puerto Rico.

NOW! I'VE HEARD EVERYTHING: Near the endof the Sells & Gray tour GARY THOMAS wurkedthe elephant act wearing a pale blue satin suit AND

on a skateboard!

Have a Merry, Merry! And I'll see you under the mistletoe, luvs

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I WISH TO THANK THF. FOLLOWING PERFORMERSFOR MAKING OUR 1976 ENGAGEMENTS SO

SUCCESSFUL.

IT WAS A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU

JOHN CUNEO'S ZAMPERLA FAMILY

Elephants NOCRS

TigersFLYING DELLS

White Tiger KARL WALLENOA & FAMILY

AL & JOYCE VIDBEL BOB jOHNSON

BILL GOLDEN PAMELA ROSAIRE

FAY ALEXANDER NAVARRO'S

JOHNNY & BARBARA Ll'XEM BLINKO & MARAN

ALROSS SHERMAN BROS.

"Bl'BA" HASTINGS KAYLENA

ALBERT & JEANNETTE RIX GEORGE HANNEFORD. Jr. & Family

PROMOTIONAL STAFF:

Russ Emerson — Keith l)w>i>r — Jack Healy — Kathy Zander

Pat Mnloof - Sue Ossmann

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December 20, 1976

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