Here's a list
of the various
circuses John Aasen worked in. He cla
imed
to have worked for several, these are
the ones I can verify
by Ben
Lonrusten
Norway
1916 -
1919 - Sells Floto Circus
1918 - Traveled with R. E Madsen
and midget Lawrence Buck
1920 - 1922 - C. A. Wortham (in
December 1921 made shows for
Elks)
1922 - 1923 - acted in Why Worry
with Harold Lloyd -
1923 - contracted with Sid Graumanns
Million Dollar Theater in LA
1923 - Late autumn was hospitalized for
7 weeks due to blood poisoning?
(not verified, based on what he
said himself)
1924 - January/February - New York
(lives at the Mc Alpine Hotel) on
his way to Hawaii
1924/1925 - January with Rhoenix
Carnival Company (in Hawaii)
1925 - June he toured with
his manager Wayne Barlow of Clear
Lake on the fair circuit.
1925 - Starting in August he was
on the Rubin &
Cherry Shows (The aristocrats of
the tents)
1926 - Movie - Long live the King
with Charley Chase and Oliver
Hardy
1926 - 1927 Dutton Circus
1927 - Movies- Legionaries in
Paris (Kit Guard and Al Cooke),
Sting of Stings with Charley Chase
and Two Flaming Youths with W. C.
Fields and Mary Brian
1928 - Fanchon - Marcos Midget
Follies
1928 - Movie - Growing Pains/Our
Gang for Hal Roach
1929 - 1930 - Turned Elks blab
Hawaii, went to Shanghai with Lillian La
France
1930 - 1932 - Toured Australia
then went to
New Zealand for a year.
1933 - Hospitalized with brain
tumor and weight problems, in and
out of the hospital for the next
couple of years.
1934 -Tourrf with midget Major
Arthur
1935 - again hospitalized
1936 - Said to have been with Al. G.
Barnes Circus? Hard to believe
since he had been very sick at the
time.
1936 Movies- Bengal Tiger with
June Travis, Charlie Chan, At the
Circus with Warner Oland
1937 - Hospitalized at Mendocino
State
1938 - Died Aug. 1.
