An interesting read from the December 1937 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine about E.M. Aronson who made many walkaround props for circus ...

  Classic American whiteface clown, Mike Bourbon, who clowned on many shows in his career. I know he was with Clyde Beatty, Ringling, and Ho...

Lew Kish, pictured here on Clyde Beatty, and also as sketched by Mark Anthony. I know Lew also clowned on Ringling in the 1940s and before t...

A page from the self published book, Mark Anthony's Sketches, which was compiled by Marty Scott. This page features Mark's drawings ...

A new documentary now available to rent or buy on Prime Video, Youtube, Fandango, Vimeo, AppleTV+,  and Google TV.

UPDATE -   A generous donor has agreed to match dollor for dollar up to $5,000! Thank you to everyone who have been so generous so far and t...

As requested by Dave Michaels, here is Jeff Schott and Ceslee Conkling performing a copier gag during Winter Quarters of the Blue Unit's...

My favorite Soliel clowns from the late 90s/early 2000s are Joe De Paul and his partner in Dralion, and Les Macloma. The whiteface of the tr...

ICHOF inductee Dougie Ashton passed away on August 25th at the age of 96. Please enjoy this rare audio interview with him from 1973 when he ...

Sorry I am a day late on this, but my day was taken up with a jump to Red Bluff, CA, waiting for hours to have my trailer parked, and trying...

  Peggy Williams teaching at the Ringling Clown College in 1980. From the photo collection of Mark Renfro.

Pepe Silva, M. Adrian, and Tom Dougherty, who will be debuting their new trio at the Dresdner Weihnachts-Circus in Dresden, Germany this Dec...

Two wonderful people, Alexandra and Yann Rossi, photographed for the English circus magazine, King Pole.   

Nine years ago Pat Cashin left us way too soon. Not a week goes by that I don't think about him or some ridiculous hilarious thing he sa...

Gary Cooper, aka "Oscar", who graduated from the Ringling Clown College in 1978 and then performed in the Clyde Beatty Clown Alley...

  Gary Ray, better known as "Patches" is a graduate of the 1972 class of the Ringling Clown College. He had a long circus career w...

Prince Paul Alpert, photographed by Bill Ballantine on the Ringling Blue Unit sometime in the 1970s. 

If I am not mistaken, this would have been after his appearance in Cirque Du Soliel's We Reinvent The Circus, which was the first time I...

  Anyone have any info on Mr. O'Connor, aside from the fact that he looks like 99% of the other clowns of that era?