Saturday, August 11, 2007

Mickey Mouse Club Circus 1956 #16


MMC Circus 12, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ted Dewayne put together this flying act and shortly after we opened he had Fay Alexander fly in directly after finishing the movie "Trapeze" in Paris.

Anonymous said...

Additional acts in the show were two seal acts; Dick Berg and Jimmy Reynolds. Also I and Hazel King would flank the Tate dog act with two six pony drills in the end rings.

aCTUALLY IT WAS A single middle piece 50 ft and beside the center poles and inside the quarter poles was enough room for two smaller rin curbs for the ponies, seals and production to work in.

Gil hired Serenado, Fay Alexander, the seal acts and former Dewayne people for teeterboard for the following year and Disney gave him the OK to publicize "Direct from Disneyland".

Prof. Kellar would not allow his cats to be shifted to the Disney cage wagons, so Gils cats were hired for the menagerie, parades,etc. Also Dolly Jacobs elephants, so we had a nice tented menagerie as you entered wiyh those cage wagons with lions, tigers, leopard, pumas and seven elephants plus camels, llamas, horses and ponies and Madam FiFis chimp.

Anonymous said...

Cleo Plunkett served as back up ringmaster for Jimmie Dodd and overseeer during the show. Max Craig was prop boss. Joe Horwath oversaw Gils cats and Jimmy Reynolds was Menagerie Supt.

V.C. Walker and the twenty piece Disneyland band played the swhow. Gil executed Peter Pan and Tinkerbelle costuming and Jerry Dewayne taught all the Mousketeers to do a beautiful swinging ladder, web no. with special music and strobolite of wardrobe and ladders trimmed in green. It was beautiful.