|

Ladies and gentlemen, Children Of All Ages, step right up and meet some of the
most remarkable performers The Greatest Show On Earth® has ever known, and
explore the rich history of America's Living National Treasure®.
PEERLESS PERFORMERS
Merle Evans:
Circus music maker extraordinaire!
Gunther Gebel-Williams:
Animal training legend
Lou Jacobs: Master
clown for 60 years
Emmett Kelly: Master
of pantomime
King Tusk: Awesome
Asian elephant ambassador
Lillian Leitzel: Queen
of the air
The Living Unicorn:
From the pages of myth!
Ringmasters: A
complete chronology!
MEMORABLE ARTICLES
A Century Of Circus
Railroading: Tales of the trains, from our 101st Edition program book
Circus Day ‘Round The
Clock: A behind-the-scenes view, from 1947.
Clown For A Day: Bing
Crosby's 1949 article about being a guest clown
From Canvas To Concrete:
Show history from our 100th Anniversary program book
I Love Those Clowns:
The legendary Bob Hope provides a written monologue of circus jokes, from our 1950 program book.
Napoleon Said It:
The circus, like an army, travels on its stomach. Feeding The Big Show, from
our 1941 program book.
The Circus: Ernest
Hemingway writes about The Greatest Show On Earth - literary history from our
1953 program book.
The Circus Mystique
Why we love the circus, from our 103rd Edition program book.
The Circus Sportlight:
Legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice on circus athleticism, from 1943
The Greatest Show On
Earth: Cecil B. DeMille writes about his classic 1952 film
|