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Periodical Index: Sixty Years of the Circus

Index of Magazine Articles, 1912 - 1972

This index of articles was compiled by George W. Adkins. Abbreviations: RB & BB is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, F. S. U is Florida State University. There may be errors in the index, and it seems certain that not all articles published on the circus are indexed for any particular year. There will be typographical errors. The index has been provided by the Circus World Museum Parkinson Library.


Magazine Date Article Title/Description (author/subject)
Colliers May 4, 1912 At the Sign of the Three Rings
Ladies Home Journal August 1912 Billy Smith and the World's Greatest
Colliers April 6, 1912 Circus in Cold Storage
American Magazine February 1914 Al Ringling
Literary Digest November 18, 1916 Clown's Tragedy
Scientific American May 19, 1917 Motorized Circus - Latest Triumph of Motor Traction
Literary Digest August 18, 1917 Old Days of Sawdust & Spangles
Literary Digest March 16, 1918 How the Circus Dodges the Railroad Blockade
Scientific American February 9, 1918 First-Aid to the Circus (Circus Tents)
Illustrated World September 1919 Circus Now Comes to Town via Motor Truck Route
Illustrated World October 1919 Science of Running a Menagerie
American Magazine September 1919 We divided the job-but stuck together (John Ringling)
Illustrated World April 1920 Why the Circus will Never be Motorized
Saturday Evening Post February 14, 1920 Big Showmen
Saturday Evening Post July 17, 1920 Circus Girl
Saturday Evening Post January 21, 1920 In the Lion's Cage
Literary Digest October 2, 1920 Under the Tent with a Real Circus Man
Saturday Evening Post August 13, 1921 Hittin' the Grit
Illustrated World February 1921 What the Circus Does in Winter
Illustrated World August 1921 When wild Animals Escape From the Circus
Saturday Evening Post April 8, 1922 Keep to the Right: Don't Shove
Saturday Evening Post May 6, 1922 Keeper of the Bulls
Colliers April 1922 Real Thrill of the Circus
Saturday Evening Post April 22, 1922 Troupin' with the Tents
Saturday Evening Post December 8, 1923 Old Overland Circus Day
Saturday Evening Post May 10, 1924 Around the Dog Wagon
Colliers May 3, 1924 Be For It, or Don't Be With It
Saturday Evening Post January 5, 1924 Kids of the Cages
Popular Mechanics May 22, 1924 Behind the Big-Top of the Modern Circus
Saturday Evening Post May 17, 1924 Grifting isn't so good
Literary Digest May 3, 1924 When the animals escape!
Colliers April 4, 1925 He butchers to make a circus holiday (Gavin)
Colliers February 7, 1925 Where do Circuses Go in Winter?
Saturday Evening Post January 10, 1925 Under the Horse Tents
Popular Mechanics May 1926 Catching Animals for the Circus Menagerie
Colliers May 1, 1926 Under the Seams of a Circus
Popular Mechanics March 1926 Keeping the Circus in Motion
Colliers July 3, 1926 This Way to the Big Show
Popular Mechanics December 1927 Simple Life for Circus Children
Popular Mechanics August 1928 Training Circus Horses
Saturday Evening Post December 8, 1928 In Quarters
Colliers September 15, 1928 Main Guy
Literary Digest October 5, 1929 How Ringling made the Greatest Show Greater
Popular Mechanics July 1929 Circus Clings to the Open Road
Literary Digest August 3, 1929 75 Years with a one-ring Circus (Orton Circus)
Colliers June 7, 1930 Tons of Temperament
Saturday Evening Post May 24, 1930 Trouping with Seals (C.S. Slick)
Colliers February 8, 1930 Snarling Devils - Tigers
National Geographic October 1931 Land of Sawdust, Spangles & a World in Miniature
Good Housekeeping June-October 1931 Under the Big Top
Literary Digest April 4, 1931 Biggest Little Shows on Earth
Literary Digest April 4, 1931 Lillian Leitzel - Out of a Job
Literary Digest June 24, 1931 How the Cat Man Fights Off Claws & Fangs
Saturday Evening Post June 20 1931 Trained - But Untamed (Beatty)
Colliers May 28, 1932 Dressing up the Big Show
Travel April 1932 Following Nomads of the Big Tent
Colliers August 6, 1932 Close Calls (Beatty)
Literary Digest September 10, 1932 Where Circuses go when they die: W.P. Hall Circus Farm
Colliers September 24, 1932 Animal Trainers Never Quit (Beatty)
Literary Digest April 2, 1932 Man Who Keeps the Circus Performance Clicking
Popular Science April 1933 Swift Motor Trucks put Circus back on the road
Newsweek April 7, 1934 Big Top's in Town
Business Week April 27, 1935 Three-Ring Investments (RB & BB)
Popular Mechanics June 1936 Circus Laugh-Making Requires Inventive Genius
Time July 27, 1936 Circus Taxes: Income Tax Fraud
Popular Science May 1936 Home Grown Lions are the Toughest Actors
Popular Science November 1937 Behind the Scenes at Circus Winter Quarters
Newsweek December 1937 Ringling Circus under a new generation of Ringlings
Time April 19, 1937 Bigger and Better
Readers Digest March 1937 Circus Side Lights: Excerpts from "This Way to the Big Show"
Time March 29, 1937 Cat Man: Clyde Beatty
Popular Science July 1937 When Lions and Tigers Mix in the Circus
Popular Science March 1937 Circus Scout Finds New Talent
Popular Science April 1937 Circus Wagons in Miniature
Newsweek April 11, 1938 Gargantua the Great Stars...
Business Week April 23, 1938 Ringling Comeback
Popular Science August 1938 Sword Swallower X-Rayed
19th Century February 1939 Bertram Mills Circus
Popular Science February 1939 Cats 'n' Kinkers: Labor Troubles (RB & BB)
Saturday Evening Post March 25, 1939 Circus Photos with a Color Camera
Newsweek May 22, 1939 Circus starts canvas season as prelude to the biggest tour...
Christian Science Monitor Magazine June 17, 1939 Dolling Up the Circus
Popular Mechanics September 1939 They Fly Without Wings
Popular Mechanics March 1940 School Days for Elephants (F. B. Kelley)
Newsweek April 8, 1940 Circus Time
Time April 15, 1940 Greatest Show
Colliers July 20, 1940 Here Kitty, Kitty (Alfred Court's Jungle College)
Life July 22, 1940 Pretty Pat English Trains Lions
Nations Business August 1940 Rebirth of an Old Sawdust Empire
Saturday Evening Post August 24, 1940 Big Shot of the Big Top: John Ringling North
Popular Science March 1941 Four Steel Towers Support New Poleless Circus Tent...
Newsweek April 14, 1941 Greatest Show on Earth
Colliers April 19, 1941 Sawdust Dolls: Meet the Kids
Life April 21, 1941 Circus After a Winter in Sarasota
Time April 21, 1941 Menagerie in Blue
Travel July 1941 Circus is Coining to Town (F. B. Kelley)
Life July 28, 1941 Circus Across the Continent
Etude August 1941 Symphony of the Sawdust - 30 Years with a Circus Band (Evans)
Hobbies April 1942 Collecting Circus Photos (Smith)
New York Times Magazine April 12, 1942 Three-Ring Rehearsal (Color Photos)
Saturday Review of Literature May 30, 1942 The New Ringling Bros. Circus (Bennett Cerf)
New York Times Magazine April 4, 1943 Circus Days: Old Time Posters
Business Week April 10, 1943 Circus Defrilled
Newsweek April 19, 1943 Step this Way
Time April 26, 1943 Big Top Business
Good House Keeping July 1943 Circus in Town (F. Sullivan)
Newsweek June 12, 1944 Solvent Circus
Newsweek July 17, 1944 Death Stops A Circus
Time July 17, 1944 Six Minutes: Tent in a Big Lot in Hartford
Life July 17, 1944 Fire Destroys a Big Top
Christian Science Monitor Magazine July 29, 1944 He Wanted a Circus and he Got it (Hugo Bros. Circus)
Hobbies July 1944 Collecting Circus Posters (Smith)
Saturday Evening Post October 2, 1944 Jinx Over the Big-Top
Business Week April 7, 1945 It's Circus Time (RB & BB)
Business Week April 14, 1945 Circus Terms Lightened
Newsweek May 28, 1945 Oompah, Oompah Man
Readers Digest September 1945 Rendezvous of Love
Hobbies November 1945 Circus Railroad Wrecks
New Republic April 22, 1946 Backstage at the Biggest Show
Life July 8, 1946 Circus Queen: Head of the Hanneford Family
Colliers July 13, 1946 Daring Old Man (A. Porter)
Readers Digest April 1946 Circus Day in the 90's
Newsweek April 8, 1946 Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Life April 8, 1946 Life Visits the Circus in Florida
New York Times Magazine April 13, 1947 Circus Glamor Girls
Colliers April 19, 1947 It's A Clown's Life (Bill Ballantine)
New Yorker April 19, 1947 The Circus at Madison Square Garden
Time April 21, 1947 Rite of Spring in Manhattan
Newsweek May 19, 1947 Step this Way!
Business Week June 14, 1947 Big Top Battle
Saturday Review of Literature June 14, 1947 Trade Winds: 77th Edition of RB & BB (Bennett Cerf)
Saturday Evening Post June 21, 1947 Smallest Big Show on Earth
Hobbies July 1947 Birthplace of the American Circus (A. M. Smith)
Life July 21, 1947 Emmett Kelly's Woes make Millions Laugh (Prideaux)
American Magazine July 1947 Top Kick of the Big Top (Lindquist)
Fortune July 1947 Circus: Tearing Down, Moving & Resetting - RB & BB (Complete)
Fortune July 1947 Ringling Wrangling: Squabble for Ownership (RB & BB)
Hobbies August 1947 Firsts in Circus History (A.M. Smith)
Hobbies September 1947 Two-Car Circus (A. M. Smith)
Readers Digest September 1947 Circus: Tearing Down, Moving & Resetting (RB & BB) Condensed
Popular Science May 1948 Model Circus Rivals the Real Thing
Saturday Evening Post May 29, 1948 Little Butch; Baby Elephant (F. B. Kelley)
Christian Science Monitor Magazine June 12, 1948 The Circus is Coming
Readers Digest July 1948 Heartbeat of the Big Top: Music
New Yorker October 2, 1948 Small Circus: Bond Bros.
Readers Digest November 1948 The Zacchinis (Condensed)
National Geographic March 1948 Wonder City that Moves by Night (RB & BB)
New York Times Magazine April 4, 1948 Circus Headliners: Circus Posters
Colliers April 10, 1948 Sketches in Sawdust (W. Kuhn)
Life April 26, 1948 The Zacchinis (Complete)
Christian Science Monitor Magazine May 8, 1948 Presto! Prepackaged Circus (RB & BB)
Life May 10, 1948 New Circus Acts: RB & BB
New York Times Magazine April 3, 1949 The Greatest Show Must Go On, and It Does...
Life April 18, 1949 The Circus Gets Ready
Christian Science Monitor Magazine April 16, 1949 The Big Top Goes Up (Foster)
Life April 18, 1949 Circus Glamor - RB & BB in New York
New Yorker April 23 & April 30, 1949 Family Under Canvas
Life July 11, 1949 Clowns: Make-Up is their Special Trait
Coronet July 1949 An Elephant is His Pulpit: Circus Chaplin (Barrett)
Life August 8, 1949 John Ringling North (RB & BB)
Saturday Evening Post August 20, 1949 Headaches of a Circus Animal Doctor (RB & BB)
Hobbies November 1949 Transporting the Circus (Smith)
Newsweek April 17, 1950 World's Greatest - Big Show in Big Town
Coronet May 1950 Here Comes the Circus (Photos)
Newsweek June 26, 1950 Hopalong's Circus Invasion (Cole Bros. Circus)
Life July 17, 1950 Strange Case of the Circus Arsonist - Youth who Started the Hartford Fire
Holiday July 1950 Courtship of a Clown (Bill Ballantine)
Woman's Home Companion August 1950 Living with the Circus
Popular Mechanics August 1950 Home-Owned Big-Top (Miniature)
New York Times Magazine April 2, 1950 Top Shots of the Big Top (Photos)
Newsweek April 10, 1950 Spring Song - Arrival of RB & BB in New York
Hobbies March thru June 1951 Circus Stars of YesterYear (Stevens)
Colliers April 7, 1951 Lions 'n' Tigers 'n' Clyde Beatty
Coronet May 1951 Remember Circus Day?
Nations Business May 1951 The Circus Comes to Town
Holiday August 1951 They Move the Circus (Bill Ballantine)
Readers Digest September 1951 Circus Doctor, By Dr. J. Y. Henderson (RB & BB) Condensed
New York Times Magazine April 6, 1952 Images of the Circus - Photos
Life April 21, 1952 Cookin' Up High (RB & BB)
Popular Mechanics May 1952 Here Comes the Circus
New Yorker May 10, 1952 Profiles: Pat Valdo (RB & BB)
Coronet June 1952 Sawdust and Spangles: Picture Story
Saturday Evening Post January 31, 1953 Vest Pocket Circus (Polack Bros. Circus)
Hobbies January 1953 1904 Barnum & Bailey Circus Season Highlights (Stevens)
American Photographer March 1953 The Lens Sees the Circus
Holiday March 1953 Circus on the Amazon (B. Ballantine)
New York Times Magazine March 29, 1953 Circus Comes to Town; Photos of Old Posters
New York Times Magazine April 12, 1953 Circus - Show Between the Shows
New Yorker April 25, 1953 Profiles: Roland Butler (RB & BB)
Time May 18, 1953 Spangles in the Air
American Mercury June 1953 Circus Talk (Bill Ballantine)
Popular Mechanic July 1953 Daredevils Walk the Big Top Wires (Nunn)
American Heritage September 1953 Greatest Show on Earth
Hobbies November 1953 1903 Barnum & Bailey Circus Route (Stevens)
Holiday February 1954 Sarasota (A. Hine)
New York Times Magazine March 28, 1954 Art of Clowning, By an Ex-Clown (Valdo-Ballantine)
Newsweek April 5, 1954 Circus Time
Life June 7, 1954 Aerial Affair: Tightrope Artists
Life June 28, 1954 Hold Your Horses - Circus Parade in Miniature
Time July 19, 1954 Case Unclosed: Circus Fire, Hartford
Hobbies September 1954 Cole Bros. Circus of 1943 (Stevens)
Hobbies October 1954 Circus Windjammer; D. C. Heitzel (Stevens)
Hobbies February 1955 Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus (Stevens)
Newsweek April 4, 1955 TV Under the BIG TOP
Hobbies April 1955 Barnum & Bailey Garden Opening 1904 (Stevens)
New Yorker April 16 & April 23, 1955 Profiles: Band Leader of RB & BB (R. L. Taylor)
Life June 20, 1955 New Shine for the Circus
Newsweek June 27, 1955 Circus: Money Behind the Magic
Life July 16, 1955 The Circus Plays a Sad Last Act (King Bros. Circus)
Cosmopolitan August 1955 Big Top's Royal Family (Cristianis)
Hobbies November 1955 Dexter Fellows, Circus Press Agent (Stevens)
Cosmopolitan May 1956 Circus Girl
Design May 1956 Sketching the Spec (Engel & Messick)
Newsweek May 28, 1956 Passing of the Big Top
Business Week July 21, 1956 Big Top Quietly Steals Away
U.S. News & World Report July 27, 1956 The Greatest Show on Earth Strikes its Tents
Newsweek July 30, 1956 Goodbye to the Gallant and the Gay
Life August 20, 1956 The Big Top Bows Out Forever
Business Week December 22, 1956 Ringling's Back on the Tanbark Trail...
Newsweek March 26, 1956 Smell of Sawdust
Newsweek April 2, 1956 Touching Up the Circus
Newsweek April 9, 1956 Big Red Ring
Life April 23, 1956 Beauty for the Big Top (RB & BB)
Time May 28, 1956 End of the Trail for Clyde Beatty's Circus
Saturday Review March 2, 1957 Booked for Travel (John's House)
Newsweek April 8, 1957 Only One in Town
New Yorker April 21, 1957 Profiles: Richard Barstow, RB & BB Producer
Life May 6, 1957 In A Circus Cage, A Jungle Killing ( RB & BB in Madison Square Garden)
Hobbies August 1957 Ladies of the Big Top (Stevens)
Life August 12, 1957 The Top is Off the Big Top
Newsweek September 2, 1957 On the Flying Trapeze
Saturday Evening Post September 21, 1957 Don't Tell Them the Circus is Dead (Cristlani Family)
Hobbies March 1958 1946 Edition of RB & BB (Stevens)
New Yorker April 28, 1958 Profiles: Last of the Great Carnival Talkers, N. Eagle
Hobbies February 1958 Walter L. Main Circus (Stevens)
Hobbies April 1958 Sells Bros. Circus (Stevens)
Hobbies August 1958 Sautelles New Boat Show (Stevens)
Life May 11, 1959 Laughter at a Sad Sight: Clown Act
Hobbies September 1959 Circus World Museum Open
Newsweek April 11, 1960 Popcorn and Popeyes
Readers Digest April 1960 I Love You, Honey, But the Season's Over (Condensed)
Look July 19, 1960 Circus: Magic to 5 Year Old Kathy Fischer
Life December 24, 1960 All the World's a Circus (Schneider)
Life April 28, 1961 Pachyderms & Polka Dots
Newsweek January 1, 1962 Fire in the Big Top in Brazil
Time February 9, 1962 Death on the High Wire: Wallenda Family Accident
Life February 9, 1962 Halfway, I Feel Something Wrong (Wallenda)
Newsweek February 12, 1962 I Can't Hold Anymore; Accident of Great Wallenda Troupe
New York Times Magazine February 18, 1962 Why They Walk the High Wire (Wallendas)
New York Times Magazine February 25, 1962 Circus in Close-Up
Hobbies March 1962 John Zweifel's Miniature Circus
Time April 13, 1962 Past Tents - RB & BB in Madison Square Garden
Life April 30, 1962 Tiny World of the Big Top (Dunn Bros. Circus)
Time May 18, 1962 Goodbye, Tom Thumb
Life November 30, 1962 Make Way for Clowns, Crazy & Classy
Life May 18, 1962 Life Guide: Circuses
Look February 9, 1962 High Tension - High Wire; Great Wallendas. Will They Make It?
Newsweek February 18, 1963 Cat Man: Clyde Beatty
Life April 19, 1963 Ladeez & Gentlemen, The Sensational New Aerial Artiste, La Toria (Oulahan)
Readers Digest July 1963 Death on the High Wire (B. Ballantine)
New York Times Magazine July 30, 1963 Tops Under the Big Tops
U.S. Camera August 1963 Summer Action: Circus
Business Week October 12, 1963 Big Top Goes Abroad (RB & BB)
Saturday Evening Post October 26, 1963 Soviet Circus Wows the U.S.A. (Ballantine)
Life July 3, 1964 Milwaukee Rolls Out the Wagons
Readers Digest June 1964 Father Schonig - Circus Priest Extraordinary (Kent)
American Heritage December 1964 Gaudery on Wheels: Circus Wagons
Saturday Evening Post February 15, 1964 War of Nerves on the High Wire (Ballantine)
Business Week March 28, 1964 And Now, in the Center Ring, Profits
Life April 17, 1964 Up, Up by the Hair She Goes
Saturday Evening Post April 10, 1965 Circus! (Bill Ballantine)
New Yorker April 10, 1965 Resurgeance - RB & BB in New York
Design March 1965 Historic Bandwagons
Life April 23, 1965 Unhappiest Circus: Malafosse Circus Stranded in Lebanon
Life April 30, 1965 The Day his Funny Friends Frolicked in Grief...
Saturday Review October 16, 1965 Florida's Three-Ring City, Sarasota
Life April 15, 1966 Great New Circus Act: Tiger on a Horse trained by Althoff
Time April 27, 1966 This is Old, Pussycat, But It's Fun ... Rb & BB in Madison Square Garden
Seventeen July 1966 Face-to-Face with a Circus Web-Girl
Popular Science July 1966 Fear on the High Wire (B. Ballantine)
Look August 9, 1966 Big Top Goes to College (F.S.U.)
New Yorker April 15, 1967 Animal Walk (RB & BB)
Life July 7, 1967 Theatrical Thoughts on a Dog Act (Stephenson Family)
Design Summer 1967 Eggshell Library for Clowns - International Circus Clowns Club (Conway)
Life November 17, 1967 Unclutter in a Single Russian Ring (Moscow Circus)
Newsweek November 27, 1967 Ringling's Egress
Newsweek November 27, 1967 Greatest Show on Earth Sold... RB & BB
Ebony December 1967 Touring the Big Top: First Black Show Girl
Newsweek September 9, 1968 Modern Midway (Strates Shows)
Travel December 1968 Circus Museums
Newsweek December 2, 1968 Clown College
Holiday January 1968 Caravan Circuses of Europe
Life March 15, 1968 Triviality has never seemed so trivial (S. Alexander)
Business Week April 13, 1968 To the Feld Bros., It's all a Big Circus (RB & BB)
Newsweek April 15, 1968 Big Top's Music Man: Bandmaster of RB & BB
Time February 21, 1969 Bread from Circuses - RB & BB Going Public
Hobbies April 1969 Circusiana: Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wis.
Life May 30, 1969 After Tragedy: A New Age of Wallendas
Atlantic Monthly June 1969 Portfolio: Circus (E. Fenander)
Ebony November 1969 Color Comes to the Circus: Arena's first Black Clown
Holiday April 1970 Circus: The Second 100 Years (Ballantine)
Newsweek April 6, 1970 The Colossal Centennial - RB & BB
Saturday Review April 25, 1970 Greatest Show on Earth
Time May 4, 1970 Greatest Showman on Earth
Life February 20, 1970 Funniest College on Earth - RB & BB Clown College
Life April 23, 1971 Here Comes the Circus (E. Hoagland)
Life April 23, 1971 Two Clowns (E. Hoagland)
Time May 24, 1971 Big Cat with Big Cats (Gunther Gebel-Williams) RB & BB
Esquire July 1971 Soul of the Tiger (E. Hoagland & Gunther Gebel-Williams, RB & BB)
McCalls August 1971 Subject Was Laughter: First Woman Clown
Harpers August 1971 Gebel-Williams Burning Bright: Circus trainer
Vogue October 15, 1971 Dauntless Travelers (Mexican Circus)
Readers Digest November 1971 Peerless Potentate of Pachydermia (Busch)
National Geographic March 1972 On the Road With An Old-Time Circus (Hoxie Bros. Circus)
Design Mid-Summer 1972 Historic Bandwagons (illustrated)


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