New York Clipper (Feb 1923)

22. THE NEW YORK CLIPPER February 14, 1923 CIRCUS SHRINE CIRCUS BROKE RECORDS Tbe Detroit Shrfaie Crcns broke all records this year. The big crowds that attended the Circos at the Armory were more than pleased with the program. The papers ipve the Circus a wonderful send oB, saying that never in the history of Sbrinedom did tbe Moslem Temple give such a wonderful performance and oon- gratnlated Frank Wirth of Wirth. Bla- menJield Co., who put on the Show. May Wirth and Co. with Phil, registered big, Seigrist-Silbon Troupe, Hill's Comedy Circus, Raymond and Maison, Flying Bodgers, Flying Shaws, Cha Hal Chinese Wonder Troupe, Seiveo International Troupe and Spader Johnson himself and troupe of Gowns which included Tom and Everette Hart, Kid Kennaid, Paul Jerome. Frank McStay, and Herman Joseph, all came in for a big share of applause. The Crcus opened Feb. S and >vi11 continue for two weeks. FLANNIGAN IN HOSPITAL Freddie Flannigan. the armless wonder, signed for the coming season with the Walter L. Main Circus Side Show, was taken to the Bellevuc Hospital, New York, last wedc. Freddie has an infeaed toe and fearing blood poison the head surgeon of the hospital took charge of the case as if anything serious was to happen to one of Freddie's feet he would be left practically hetplcfs. From last reports the foot is now ont of danger and Freddie will be able to leave the hospital shortly. EX-CIRCUS RiraR FOUND DEAD AtBAMY. Feb. 12.—Miss .Mice Saunders, said to be a former bareback rider of the Sells-FIoto Circus, where she appeared under the name of Alice Amoldy, was found' dead last Wednesday morning at a boarding house in this city. Miss Saunders, who was 54 years old, has lived in Albany for the past five years and never discussed her past. Up to re- cently she was always well supplied with money. Death was due to pneumonia. ROBINSON cot PLANS UNDECIDED It has not as yet been decided as to whether the Yanme Robinson Circus will take the road this coming season. This Ctrcns was purchased by tbe Muggivan- Ballard-Bowers interests a couple of years ago and has not been on the road since. Consequently with the combining of the John Robinson Grcus with the Gollmar Bros. Circus, there will only be three cir- cuses under the Muggivan-Ballard-Bowers Co. instead of foar as heretofore." P. J. FRINK ILL F. J. Frink, general agent of tlie Walter L. Main Circas, canght quite a severe cold at Winter qtaiters where he was looking after the details of getting the show ready for the coming season, while Gov. Downic was enjoying a short vacation. Mr. Frink reports that he is all right again and tlut he is busy routing the show. WESTQW SHOW IN SAN DIEGO Great Western Dog and Pony Show left winter quarters Jan. 29 making its first run to San Diego, CaU and are- engaged to play the Orange Show at San Bcmandino rrom Feb. 16 to 26. SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS Contrary to all reports the Sells-FlotO Circus will again, this coining season, go out on forty cars and not as a sixty or sixty-Rve car Circus, as been heralded about. The Sells-FIoto will feature the Big Opening Spectacle "A Night In Per- sia," which' will be put on with many novelties, and new wardrobe and will sur- pass anything ever attempted in this line. The Circus will open the season at the Coliseum, Chicago, 111.,- April 7 to 22, in- clusive. ACTOR HELD AS "BOOTLEGGER" Cecil Qovelly, an actor appearing with John Barrymore in "Hamlet," was arrested last Tuesday, with two others, on a charge of "bootlegging." The trio were arrested by Federal Agent John McGivney, who alleges that the actor sold him a flask of liquor. and took him to an uptown phar- macy and introduced him to the clerk. Mc- Givney further alleges he later purchased two cases' of bonded liquor and immediately placed Oovelly and his companions under arrest BIG BANNER ORDER One of the largest orders for Show Ban- ner Paintings has been i^ced by Evans and Gordon for their several shows, with the_ United States Tent and Awning Co.. Chicago. The order calb for five hundred and forty banners, each one a different sub- ject. Previous to this order the above firm have placed orders with the same firm for eighteen hundred banners. ROBINSON AND GOLLMAR COMBINE Tlie John Robinson Grcus and the Goll- mar Bros. Circus will be combined this coming season' imder title of the John Rob- inson Circus and will feature both trained wild animals and circus acts. Combining the'two shows will enable them to put on a program of all feature acts. The Cir- cus will open the coming season at Marion, Ind., Saturday, April 21. McCLOSKEY IN NEW YORK H. W. McGoskey of Los Angeles, Cal., connected with In-door Expositicms is now in New York on business. Mr. McGos- key is well known among the White Tops having been connected with the Sells-FIoto Circus for several seasons. CUMMINGS IN OIL BUSINESS Col. Fred T. Cnmmings, who formerly conducted his own Wild West Show and was known among the Indians as La-Ko- Ta. is now interested in extensive oil oper- ations in California, making his home in Los Angeles. INDOOR CIRCUS AT NEW LONDON The Polack Indoor Circus opened an engagement last 'Saturday at New London. Conn., with the following staff, F. Percy Morency, manager, Geo. W. Johnson, con- cession manager, Charles Lawrence and Joe Marx, concession superintendents. HAGENBEOC-WALLACE OPENING The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus will «)en this coming season at Louisville. Ky., Saturday, .\pri1 28. This circus featiires both trained wild animals and circus com- bined, and will introduce in both depart- ments many novel acts. MAIN AGENT IN NEW YORK F. J. Frink, general agent of the Walter L. Main Grcns. is in New York for a few days on business for bis show. OUTDOOR EXPOSITIONS MILLER BROS. SHOW OPENS Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 12.—The Miller Bros. Shows opened February 7, at the Pensacola Mardi Gras celebration, the show stretching over five blocks of city streets, and comprising more than twenty attractions and riding devices, and 75 con- cessions. Among the shows in the Miller Bros, line-up are Webb's Grcus Side Show, which includes twenty different pits. The features in the Webb show range from the "Electric Girl," fat children, small animals and various other, pits. Next in line were Bristol's Ponies and Goats and Mrs. Bristol onanaging the show and Prof. Bristol putting on the show with Doc Bowels as ticket seller and an- ItSiincer. The freak animal show was next under the management of Wm. McLish; Physco, a mechanical figure that does everything asked of !t, and in success a motordrome with several riders, a me- chanical show, Dickinson's trained ani- mals, Young Dickinson's Snake Farm, merry-go-round and Ferris wheel, a min- strel show under the management of John B. Davis, who has twenty-four performers, and other features'. Among the concessions are: T. A. Stevens, with twenty different concessions; Joe Tuckerecy, Doc Meyers, Wm. Kohler, Mrs. Morris Miller and others who have from one to four concessions. The whole show is unusually well lighted with thousands of electric lights, giving it a beautiful appearance at night There are no girl shows of any kind and no stores with the shows, which is believed by Miller brothers to be the main reason why they are able to repeat at any town they have played in the past The execu- tive staff consists of Maurice Miller, Jr., president; Morris Miller, manager; Frank Marshall, business manager; Jack Oliver, general representative: Edgar Turner and Jack Mashbum, special agents. The show management has signed contracts with many fair secretaries who attended the show from different parts of Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, and the Miller shows will appear at the fair at dates to be announced later. PENNA. FAIR ASSOCIATION MEETS The Pennsylvania Slate Association of County Fairs held their annual meeting at the Hotel Lorraine, Feb. 7 and 8, in Philadelphia, Pa. The following exposi- tion people were present: George DcH>yns- and Al. Holstein, of the George Dotqms Shows; Robert A. (Whitey) Josselyn, of the Greater Sheesley Shows; Matthew J. Riley, of the Matthew J. Riley Shows; Sam Mechanic, of the Keystone Exhibi- tion Shows; W. C. (Bill) Marcus, of the Brown and Dyer Shows; Harry Benthant and C. A. (Whitey) Tumquist, of the Bemardi Shows; Frank Wirth, of Wirth Blumcnficid Fair Booking Association^ who received quite a large contract for Free Acts for the several fairs. No def-. inite contract for Exposition Shows to- play the several fairs were made. SELLS-FLOTO AGENT IN NEW YORK Ed. Warner, general agent of the Sells- Floto Circus is in New York for a few days and will look after his business in the nearby cities before returning west. BRUNEN SLAYER INSANE Charles M. Powell, confessed slayer of "Honest John" Bruncn, circus man, who was shot to death at his home in River- side, N. J., last year, has been adjudged insane. Powell had been sentenced to from twenty to thirty years for his participation in the murder, escaping the death penalty, by assisting the prosecution in convicting Harry C Mohr, alleged instigator of the murder. Powell was removed from the State IVison at Trenton to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane. FROST ON HIS OWN Joe Frost, the Whistle King, the past few seasons with the Hagenbeck-Wallacc Circus, will this coming sceuon work in- dependent having purchased a motor truck and will make the celebrations in the east. FAIR TRADING CO. IN NEW OFFICES The Fair Trading Co.,- Max (joodwin manager, are now located in their new home 309 Sixth avenue, Ne\v York, where tliey have one of the finest display rooms and offices fotmd in their line and it is one of the concessioner and showmen's head quarters, Wallace and Udoiwitz Dream- land Shows and Fink's Expositions Shows making it their office, besides several con- cessioners. THOMPSON SIGNS WITH MAIN Thos. Thompson, hasband of Bird Mill- man, has signed with the Walter L. Main Cirais as inside ticket seller. CONKLIN IN NEW YORK J. W. Conklin, son of the late well known showman Jim Conklin, accompanied by his mother has just arrived in New York from Los Angeles, Cal., coming east tgr the way of New Orleans, Hot Springs, Cincinnati and Pittsburg. Mr. Conklin plays the Canadian territory with his brother and expects to again be in that territory this coming season. BERGEN BOOKS TWO SHOWS Frank Bergen has booked his two shows, "Monkey Speedway" and "Ten-in-One," and his Whip and Aeroplane Swings on the Matthew J. Riley Shows. FINK SHOWS BOOKED Fink Exposition Shows Inc., Louis Fink. Manager, are booking several good spots for the coming season and Mr. Fink says that the territory so far visited by him looks very prosperous and he looks for- ward to a very good season. The show opens Saturday, April 21, in New Jersey.. JOSSELYN IN WEST Robert A. (Whitey) Josselyn, general agent of the Greater Sheesley Shows, was in New York for a few days and was called west on some important business. Mr. Josselyn has' not as yet decided as to whether the show will play the cast this coming season. LEE SHOW BOOKED ■Victor^ Lee will have the Tcn-in-One Show with Hoss-Lev!ne Shows this com- ing season. Mr. Lee left New York last week for Cleveland, Ohio, where he will be connected with some indoor engagements- before the opening of the Hoss-Lcvine Shows. MEYERHOFF GETS BERNARDI SHOWS Henry Meyerhoff, of New York, has purchased the Bemardi Shows, formerly the Francis Feari Shows, from Walter Keown, Esq., counsel for the estate of Mary Bemardi. The show is in Winter quarters at the Fair Grounds, Petersburg, ■va. WORLD AT HOME SHOWS I. J. Polack, manager of the World At Home Shows, reports the following Fairs booked by his agent, M. B. Golden: Staun- ton, Va.; Ronceverte, W. 'Va.: Covington, Va.: Danville. Va. Eleven Fairs will be booked by Mr. Golden on his trip South. KIRKPATRICK IN NEW YORK E. J. Kirkpatrick, of Chicago, has just returned to the States after being in Lon- don for some time looking after his for- eign enterprises. After a short stay in New York City, he will return to (3iicago and later return to his London office. MARCUS ROUTING SHOW W. C. (Bill) Marcus, general agent of the Brown & Dyer Shows, wjis in New York on business and made quite a few of the nearby cities. He will give his route of fairs shortly and they will .appear in these columns. EXPOSITION SHOWS Great Western Dog and Pony Show—San Bei^ nardino. Cal. Jefanny J. ^ones Exposition Shows (Fair)— Orlando, Ha., Feb. 12 to 17. Miller Bros. Shows—Selma, Ala., Feb. 12 to 17. C. R. Leggette Shows—Lafayette, La., Feb. 12 to 17. $1,000.00 REWARD To Coanion Operator*. WlolaMa. Stack aad Griod Stona. For *artlciiltra addioi P. O. Boa Vn, Ualta. O.