ROYAL AMERICAN SHOWS

ROYAL AMERICAN SHOWS---PART 1

I don't know where these were taken or the year.

Maybe someone out there will enlighten us!

I don't think these were in Regina. Dick

ROYAL AMERICAN SHOWS---PART 2

ROYAL AMERICAN SHOWS--- PART 3

CAROWINDS AMUSEMENT PARK OPENS 2010 SEASON

COLE BROS ADVANCE CLOWN

SUNDAY FUNNIES

Stranded United Kingdom, Irish or Continental European tourists can get free admission to Busch Gardens.

TBO.com
Published: April 17, 2010
Travelers stranded in Florida because of Iceland volcano ash can get free one-day admission to Busch Gardens Tampa, SeaWorld Orlando or Aquatica water park, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment announced today.
Stranded United Kingdom, Irish or Continental European tourists can get free admission by presenting a valid return airline ticket to Guest Services from April 14 through April 21, or until normal flight schedules resume.
One ticket will be offered at each park for each ticket presented. Children under age 3 are free.
For information, call 1-888-800-5447.

SAD NEWS FROM TAMPA--

Rene A. ZACCHINI
ZACCHINI, Rene A., 80, passed away Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Rene was a former circuit court judge as well as a state represent-ative.

He was also a member of the famous "Zacchini Circus Family" and a 50-year member of the Florida Bar Association.

Rene was preceded in death by his son, Norman A. Zacchini. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Joan E. Zacchini; grandson, Christopher Mitchell (Alissa); and brother, Hugo Zacchini; as well as several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Pallbearers will be Christopher Mitchell, Vernon K Korhn II, Vernon "Trey" Korhn III, William Fisher and Bryan Fisher. Honorary pallbearers will include Joseph Shipley and Hugo Zacchini. Flowers will be accepted or memorial donations may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa.

A visitation will take place at 12:30 p.m., with funeral services beginning at 1:30 p.m., Monday, April 19, 2010, at Marsicano-B.Marion Reed-Stowers Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Myrtle Hill Memorial Park.

Online condolences may be made at www.marsicanofh.com
Arrangements are entrusted to Marsicano-B.Marion Reed-Stowers Funeral Home

COWBOY STAMPS--FROM RICHMOND, INDIANA NEWPAPER

The U.S. Postal Service is today releasing four stamps honoring performers who helped make the American western popular. The stamps honor Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, William S. Hart and Gene Autry. Autry began his career at Richmond’s Gennett Recording Studios, and Mix appeared here with his circus.

Gene Autry’s medallion in the Gennett Walk of Fame. (Palladium-Item file photo by Steve Koger)

New stamps honor 2 cowboys with ties to Wayne CountyTwo of the four cowboy stars of the silver screen issued today in 44-cent Commemorative First Class stamps have Wayne County ties.

By Steve Martin • For The Palladium-Item • April 17, 2010

William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers are being honored by the U.S. Postal Service as extraordinary performers who helped make the American western a popular form of entertainment.Autry and Mix have Wayne County ties. One appeared here at the start of his career and got a boost to stardom. The other appeared at the close of his career as part of a circus.

Autry completed 93 movies and starred in 91 television productions, but it was his early recording sessions at the Gennett Recording Studios in Richmond that helped launch him to stardom.Young Autry was working at a small-time radio station in rural Oklahoma when he wrote Henry Gennett in 1929 and got a recording date.This future entertainment legend arrived in Richmond nervous and insecure, with a portfolio of ballads and yodeling cowboy songs, but he gave it his best and recorded several numbers. These recordings gained the support of a much-needed national audience, a gig at a Chicago radio station and, eventually, access to Hollywood. His star today is immortalized down in Starr Valley's Gennett Walk of Fame.
Autry's singing cowboy immortalized in films got his early start in Richmond, and the image stuck.

Mix, silent screen "King of the Cowboys" and hero to millions, appeared in Richmond down the street from Glen Miller Park. On April 22, 1937, he rode high in his silver-plated saddle astride "Tony the Wonder Horse."Mix was the son of a lumberjack who had joined the Army during the Philippine campaign at the turn of the century. Later he appeared in Wild West shows.While performing at a ranch that supplied movie studios with horses, he was hired as an extra. He eventually appeared in silent films that he later wrote, directed and starred in. At the height of his career he averaged about five films a year.

Sound pictures were not favorable to Mix in the late 1920s, and after making a handful of movies, he retired and toured the country, with what eventually became his own circus, the Tom Mix Circus.The circus appeared in Richmond on April 22, 1937, for two performances at the Twenty-third Street East Main Street show grounds (east of where Test field is) and featured a troupe of bareback riders, a "pretty" young aerial star who excelled in the art of dangling from a rope doing spins, and Tony, Tom's famous silver screen horse.

Mix developed a comical style in silent films that emphasized fast action. He did his own stunts and was "King of the Cowboys" in the 1920s and later remained popular on radio and in comic books.

UNIVERSOUL CIRCUS--HAMPTON ROADS, VA

FSU CIRCUS CAMP

http://circus.fsu.edu/camp/

CINDY AND CASSIDY

The Devine Equine Presenters, Heidi and Cassidy Herriott,

perform during Illuscination, a show put on by RIngling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. (Submitted photo)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus presents ‘Illuscination’Friday through Sunday Cajundome Lafayette, LouisIanna 04/15/10

SRI LANKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY

CIRCUS ATMOSPHERE (JAMESTOWN POST-JOURNAL)

Vincent Von Duke of the Jordan World Circus performs with lions and tigers during the afternoon showing Tuesday at the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena.

Crowd Of All Ages Takes In Circus
By Robert Rizzuto rrizzuto@post-journal.com March 31, 2010
Downtown Jamestown was a circus Tuesday, literally, as hundreds of people descended upon the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena to watch the performers of the Jordan World Circus.
From death-defying trapeze acts taking place high above the crowd to performances with lions and tigers of every type, the circus offered something for everyone.
Presented in the three-ring traditional American style, the Jordan performers invigorated the crowd from the beginning of the show, and according to Mike Ferguson, JSBIA general manager, that is why they were invited back to the city for the second consecutive year.
"The Jordan World Circus is great and last year we had a sold-out arena," he said Tuesday afternoon. "At a 4:30 p.m. show on a Tuesday, you wonder how many people will really show up, but we have the arena at least three-quarters full today."
The circus broke down the age barrier with those in attendance ranging from infants to their elders nearing the century mark.
When Vincent Von Duke, one of the circus' animal trainers, stepped into the caged circle with his African lion and tiger friends, the performance was applauded loudly by the crowd. The animals performed tricks including jumping through a flaming hoop near the center of the circle and by acting as playful as house cats.
Trapeze artists perform from the ceiling of the ice arena.

The show was also complimented by the Terrific Terriers, three rings of juggling and of course, the amazing Jordan Danger Zone riders in the Globe of Death. When the four motorcycle riders jumped on their machines and revved the engines loudly as they entered the public's view, the crowd roared in anticipation.
As they defied gravity inside the large metal globe, set up in one of the rings, the crowd went crazy as each rider flew past the next in what looked like synchronized chaos.
Ferguson said that the one goal of the ice arena's board is to bring in events that are family-friendly and appeal to a wide range of people.
"We have people from Olean and Erie that came to see the circus and this is just one event that draws them to our city," he said. "We try to mix the price and product so there is something to appeal to people of every demographic and economic income."
The Jordan World Circus features the third generation of the Jordan family based out of Las Vegas. After Jamestown, the crew will travel throughout New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, performing all the way.

The Jordan Danger Zone riders perform in the Globe of Death.P-J photos by Robert Rizzuto Performers juggle during the Jordan World Circus on Tuesday.P-J photo by Robert Rizzuto

BIG APPLE NEWS

103-year-old experiences circus like never before (SIOUX CITY)

THUNDERSTORMS CUT POWER IN ALTOONA

Altoona patrolmen Matt Plummer (center)?and Nate Snyder direct motorists at Seventh Street and Sixth Avenue early Friday evening after the traffic light at the intersection was affected by a power outage. A series of severe thunderstorms hit the region, cutting electricity for about 30,000 Penelec customers. (Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec)

Thunderstorms cut power 30,000 customers affected, including Jaffa Shrine Center before circus
By Mark Leberfinger, mleberfinger@altoonamirror.com and William Kibler, bkibler@altoonamirror.com POSTED: April 16, 2010

"Thunderstorms cut power"
Fortunately, moments before the Jaffa Shrine Circus was to begin its 7 p.m. performance Friday, the power came back on - relieving Jaffa officials and a full house of about 3,400 spectators.
The power outage occurred as a line of severe thunderstorms blasted through the area late Friday afternoon.
The storms hit about 4:45 p.m., with winds gusting to 62 mph, the National Weather Service in State College said. The storms knocked down numerous trees and brought heavy rain and pea-sized hail.
About 5 p.m., lightning struck a utility pole on 19th Street near Nardo's Cafe, cutting power to the neighborhood, including the Jaffa, where people were just beginning to arrive, Altoona Fire Chief Reynold D. Santone Jr. said.
Emergency lights went on in the hallways and at the exits, but there was no emergency generator, and no way the show could go on, according to Santone and Jaffa Potentate and Circus Administrator William G. Troxell.
A crowd began to accumulate outside as Jaffa officials called for help, summoning Santone.
The lightning strike tripped a substation breaker. At that point, fire officials conferred with Penelec, which normally takes two hours to correct such an outage, especially when it's in "storm mode," like Friday, Santone said.
It began to rain, so the Jaffa opened its lower level, to keep the crowd dry.
Given the magnitude of the predicament, Penelec reset the breaker remotely at 7 p.m., hoping it would hold. It did, which indicated that the short had cleared on its own.
"When the lights finally came on, there was a huge cheer and applause," said John P. Elder of Duncansville, who was there with eight other members of his family. "The incident really made things interesting - a circus to remember."
The performance finally began about 7:50 p.m.
It was fortunate for Betty Lloyd of Williamsburg that the show went on, because her 7-year-old grandson Jonah Nichols was getting antsy.
"It would have been very tough dealing with him," she said.