thecircusblog | December 2, 2010
From left to right: Olive, Glenna and Glen”Bones” Hartzell. This photo was just sent to me by Randall Hartzell, a second cousin to Glenna. This photo was taken on the R.B.B &B. Circus in the late 1930’s or the early 1940’s. Bones and his wife Olive clowned on many different circuses but mainly with Ringling. After Olive’s […]
thecircusblog | December 2, 2010
I first met Glenna when I was a kid on the Siebrand Bros Circus in the early 1950’s. She was a beautiful red head and all eyes turned when she walked down the midway to her fathers pit show. Her father passed away in 1955 and the octopus show was no longer… besides things were smelling […]
thecircusblog | December 2, 2010
Glenna and her father Glen”Bones” Hartzell, On R.B.B & B. Photo taken in the 1930’s or the very early 1940’s. Glenna’s parents Olive and Glen Hartzell clowned on the show and Glenna did production numbers, web, swinging ladder and spec… a good show girl. I remember she spoke kindly of her younger years on the […]
thecircusblog | October 22, 2010
Ringling Bros Barnum and Baily Circus 1942. May Kovar working leopards and black panthers for Alfred Court. She was Alfred’s only female trainer. In this photo she is performing in ring number one. There were others in Alfred Court’s stable of trainers Damoo Ohotre, Joe Walch and Fritz Schultz to name a few. May Kovar’s daughter […]
thecircusblog | October 4, 2010
Greatest Show On Earth, most likely is the best circus movie ever made.
thecircusblog | October 4, 2010
thecircusblog | October 4, 2010
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