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Back in the days
Barnum had
his freaks in
the center of the mena-
gerie and
featured Tom Thumb.
The Seven
Sunderland Sisters with
hair 11 feet
long. Zip, a pin-head. Joe
Joe the Dog face
man. Lionel, the lion
face man from
Germany. Chang and
Eng, the
original Siamese twins, jigs,
born in North
Carolina in 1851. Letini,
the three-legged
man. Mlle Zaza,
wonderful female
freak, half girl from
France. Signor
Lewande, iron jaw man
who lifted 1400
pounds with his teeth.
GabrielleGuenther, half woman, where
nature made an
attractive beauty,
healthy,
intelligent and completed an
excellent job
down to the hip bones
and then
entirely forgot to finish the
rest of her
body, she was a charm.
Barnum featured
the bearded lady
from France in
1842. He also had the
fake mermaid,
Cardiff the Giant and
Wooley Horse,
all three were fakes.
Pete Robinson,
living skeleton. Angus
McAskill, Scot
gain who had a chest
expansion of 80
inches. Anna Swan 7
feet and 5
inches tall. Admiral Dot, 2
feet tall. Major
Newell, 27 inches tall.
Buckinger,
armless and legless man.
Tom Wedders,
with a nose 71/2 inches
long who was an
Englishman. The boy
with a tail from
Borneo. Ellis Phillps,
human pin
cushion. Betty Broadbent,
Tattooed Venus.
Frieda Pushnik, half
girl. Al Tomain,
giant, Tex Madsene,
Texas giant, 7
feet and 6 inches tall.
Jack Earl, 8
feet and 4 inches tall. Ted
Evans, giant
from Derbyshire, England
9 feet tall.
Niles Darden, 7 feet tall and
weighed 1,000
pounds. Robert Wallow,
giant, 8 feet
and 4 inches tall. Hugo
French, giant.
Col. Goshen, the Pales-
tine giant, 8
feet and 6 inches tall. Clif-
ford Thompson,
giant, 8 feet and 7
inches tall.
Bob Pershing, wardlaw
giant, 8 feet
and 11 inches tall. Chang,
Chinese giant, 8
feet and 7 inches tall.
Big jig giant on
the Beatty Circus last
season. N.
Bikin, French giant. Van
Albert, 9 feet
and 3 inches tall.
Harry Odell, the
man that grows,
increasing his
height 8 inches. Alex-
andra, the two
face man. Ralph the
elephant skin
man. Yvonne and Yvette,
2 jig girls with
tops of heads grown
together.
Carolin Rosco, giantess. Ohjo,
the bearded lady
with 10 inches of
real whiskers.
Joseph Blazek, Siamese,
born in Bohemia
in 1887. The Famous
Hilton Twins,
Daisy and Violet. The
Gibbs Twins.
The Godinos, Siamese
boys from the
Philippines. The Lip Jigs
from Africa,
Barney Ross, Sealo, Hop-
py, Eko, and
Iko.
Chief and
Friday, back years ago
with Boddy Kane.
Earl's Midgets. The
Roes Midgets.
Hargrave Cuban Siamese
girls. Donald
McGregor, the Scot giant.
Jolly Joe, the
fat man. the Mule Face
Woman. The
Blue Man. Lalou, the
double body.
Prince Ludwig, midget.
Betty, the
alligator girl. Rose Westlake,
big snakes. Joe
Edwards, big snakes.
Harry Seber had
a half man on the
Beatty Circus.
Ted Metz had the great
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Randion, the
Hindu, armless and leg-
less, a great
attraction. To top it all
is George
Surtees with Schlitzie, the
greatest outside
bally or inside on plat-
form you ever
saw. Anna Redline, fat
girl.
Nettie, the fat girl, Jolly Jose-
phine, fat girl.
Alice from Dallas, fat
girl, weight 608
pounds
Corette, midget
doll, 21 inches tall.
Estella Sherman,
the worlds smallest
mother and
grandmother, 44 inches
tall.
Princess Tiny Mite, Rector, the
human skeleton.
Tom Ton, the fat boy,
weight 654
pounds. Alpine, famous
Florida fat
girl, weight 736 pounds. Doc
Garfield, the
man without a skull. Ba-
ron
Gutisseppe, the smallest man, Prin-
cess Elizabeth,
the tiny doll. Grace Gil-
bert, bearded
woman. Francis O'Con-
ner, armless
girl. Bully Pilgrim, arm-
less and legless
man. Clyde Gooding
with his twins
and the big fat jig. Cal
Lipe's Cobra
snake and little horses.
Johnny Branson
with his sea cow.
Ray Marsh
Brydon, sideshow freaks
galore.
Joe Glacy, sideshow Harry
Seber, girl show
at the Toronto Exposi-
tion every year.
Arthur Hoffman, side
show manager.
Charlie Cox, sideshow
manager.
Sam Houston had the Okla-
homa Outlaw and
Gold Tooth Jimmy,
two stiffs.
Sonny had the Wax Show
with all the
outlaws and murderers in
existence.
Johnny Ward, big snakes.
Mike Golden,
sideshow manager. Bob
Matthews, Flea
Circus, the year round
at Long Beach,
California. Zack Hargis,
snake king on
Venice Pier for years.
John Backman,
glass blowing. Larry
Benner,
magician, on the Cole Bros.
Circus. Tex
Orton, impalement ac. Olly
Webb, ex-circus
manager. Bert Chip-
man, old-time
sideshow manager. Doc
Palmer,
ex-sideshow manager. Clyde
Engles,
Pete Saunton, Eddie Tate
(Barnum of the
Orient), Skinny Rosen-
thall, George
Surtees, all sideshow
managers.
Norman Wolf, sideshow.
Hary Golleb,
freak manager. Jack W.
Wilfred, glass
blowing. Dave Meekin,
Australian
sideshow operator. John E
"Doc" Ogden,
sideshow manager, on
many of the big
circuses way back.
William weno,
lecturer. Albino Joe on
the Joe Hepp
Circus in 1900.
Most all
circuses sideshows carry
fire eaters,
sword swallowers and
magicians.
Here are a few old-timers:
Zelleno, the
mystic. Waldo, the man
who swallows
rats. Lopez, Punch and
Judy.
Priddy, magic and lecturer. Louis
Manley, magic,
Punch and Judy for
years at Long
Beach. Rudy Decobi,
magic. Jim
Dunn, talker and he could
talk in the
hey-days, there were no
mikes and you
could hear Jim's voice
a mile.
Anna Budd, sideshow man-
ager. Joe
Glacey, Ujiji African
giantess. Chief
Amo Amazon, head
hunter.
Lou Dufour, sideshow man-
ager.
Billy Bozell,
sideshow. Nate
Eagle, vet
sideshow manager, midget
shows. Don
Gilbert, sideshow.
Coo Coo,
Lady Myrtle, Chico Lorello,
Serpentina.
The Regan sisters, joined
together with
salami, fake Siamese
twins, LaLu Wemp
Wagel. Thelman and
Dorrris,
Hermines, midgets. Paul Des-
mauke.
The Circus Review Summer
1957- by Ben Beno |
