..Gloria Graham..TGSOE Movie Elephant Diva..

..Costume Designs..RBBB..1951..

..Miles White..



..Revisions on Betty Hutton Flying Act and Web..

..Web Star..1951..for the movie The Greatest Show on Earth..



..Betty Hutton..TGSOE Aerial Diva..

..Brad and Holly..TGSOE..



..Betty as Annie Oakley..




..A Diva shot..





..A backyard shot..




..point your toes..LOL..



..Groovy Man..RBBB Circus Designs..1970..

..unknown designer..



..Tibbals Digital Collection..
..Ringling Museum..



..Lottie Brunn and Rex Williams 1961..

..Elephant Diva's..

..Wanda Moore and Mabel..



..Mary Jane Miller..




..unknown mini Diva..



..Camille O'Brien..



..Cindi Cavallini..




..Josephine Baker..




..unknown Diva..



..Elephant Diva..

..Verena Lawrence..

..The Billboard..April 21, 1956..

..R-B Holds Firm in Face of Picketing..
..5 Performers Out; Business Slides But Attendance Drop Not Significant..

..New York..Business for the Ringling show was noticeably off but the show was proceeding on schedule this week, despite picketing by the two unions trying to organize its personnel: American Guild of Variety Artists and the AFL Teamsters.
..Despite the pickets and an unpredictable situation which saw several show people stay out of the Garden, then go back in, only five were among the missing thru last night. These are clowns Emmett Kelly, Otto Griebling and Felix Adler, baton twirler Billie Mahoney and announcer-vocalist Preston Lambert.
..Kelly has been in town but has not appeared at all, while Griebling and the others walked out since the opening. Both have several connections for work in and around New York in various phases of show business. Adlers wife Amelia, not an AGVA member has been clowning regularly. Lambert has work connections in the midwest and the announcing since his departure has been done by Doug Morris.
..Both the unions and the circus were claiming sucess in their dispute, but no other labor organizations have given tangible support as yet. Local 802, the musicans group has expressed "Sympathy" with AGVA but has not issued a call-out. Union show publicists were back at their Garden headquarters at mid-week after operating from the Hotel Paramount for one day.

..Judge's order halts Fulton elephant bullhook ban..

By Joel Anderson

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9:53 p.m. Monday, February 13, 2012




A Fulton Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday that could prevent the county from enforcing animal control laws in the city of Atlanta, according to a Fulton County commissioner.

Commissioner Rob Pitts said Judge John Goger's order effectively blocks the county's ban of the use of bullhooks by circus elephant trainers.


The decision comes only days before Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to Philips Arena in Atlanta. The show will run from Wednesday to Feb. 20.

Pitts, who has been an advocate for the bullhook ban, said the judge's order hinged on the lack of a specific intergovernmental agreement between Fulton and Atlanta.

"The fact is that Fulton County has been providing animal control services in Atlanta, and Atlanta has been paying Fulton County for those services," Pitts said in a written statement Monday night. "That amounts to an Implied Agreement/Contract.”

Pitts further suggested the order would prohibit the county from enforcing animal control laws in Atlanta, with the exception of rabies cases and cases of imminent danger to citizens by animals.
Anna Ware, a Buckhead resident and local animal rights' advocate, said she was disappointed with the judge's order.


"I believe that when the Fulton County Board of Commissioners passed the bullhook ban ... they heard and understood the concerns of their citizens relating to the use of the of the bullhook," said Ware, who attended the court hearing Monday.

Ware also said the judge's order could nullify previous citations issued in Atlanta by Fulton County Animal Control.

"This could have opened a big ol' can of worms," she said.

Fulton was the first Georgia jurisdiction to approve a bullhook ban, following cities and counties in Florida, South Carolina, New York, Kentucky and Indiana. Commissioners voted for the ban in June.

Officials with Atlanta and Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers, could not immediately be reached for comment Monday night.

..Terry O'Brien..

..Terry is a young lad who spends his aimless childhood roaming the streets of Boston during the Second World War, engaging in childhood fantasies to escape an unstable family environment. During his adolescent and high school years, Terry discovers the art of juggling, which becomes his passion and his business, leading him into unusual situations. Foreign and domestic travel dominates Terry’s young adult life with academic pursuits in Germany, France and Ireland, where more adventure abounds with a tour of Ireland as a performer with Duffy Circus. Misadventure follows Terry to Washington where, as a Naval officer, he becomes a linguist at the National Security Agency, and meets his wife — an analyst. The two “spooks” do the improbable and run away with the circus, spending fifteen years trouping around North America while raising a family..

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..Violence erupts in Athens..

As Greece’s parliament approved austerity measures Monday, whole swaths of Athens burned.




Protesters set cinemas, shops and banks on fire to express their anger over spending cuts they believed would further exacerbate the country’s economic crisis. At least 45 buildings burned and 67 people were arrested. Police tear-gassed crowds. It was the worst violence the capital has seen in years. The riots also spread to Greece’s second-largest city , Thessaloniki, the islands of Crete and Corfu, and towns across the country.


Hacker collective Anonymous reacted to the cuts, too, taking down the Web sites of Greece's prime minister, the police and parliament, the International Business Times reports. As of this writing, those sites were back up.

The Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum reports on the spending cuts:


“The measures, which will slash the minimum wage, trim a fifth of government workers and slash entitlement spending, are wrenchingly unpopular in a country already seized by 21 percent unemployment and dim prospects for the future. But European leaders say that Greece will eventually go bankrupt — even with the new $182 billion bailout — if it does not make the changes they are requiring.”

Much of the rioting Sunday took place just outside the parliament building, where tear gas from the protests seeped inside. At one point, a Communist Party lawmaker hurled the thick austerity measures bill across the room.

“The people [have] sent a message: Enough is enough!” Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of a public sector union, told Reuters. “They can’t take it anymore.” 

..Alfred Court..

..Court Animal Wagons..



..Alfred Court 1941..RBBB..