Haag Family Circus History Detailed

1866 - Ernest Haag born

1894 - Ernest's first owned circus

Ernest Haag's European Pavillion 1895

1895 - Ernest in circus management

Haag's Circus? 1896, 1898
1896
Ernest Falls in Love with Alice Hubbard

Ernest Haag's Circus? 1897, 1899, 1901

1900 - Harry Eugene Haag born
(named after Harry "Shorty" Rhodes)

1903 - Ernest buys 3 elephants from NY dealer
(Tip, Uno, Trilby)

1904 - in fall, buys Alice the Elephant from NY dealer

4-17-1905  -  Arthur Silverlake born in Corbin Kentucky

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938)(1891-1938?)
1906
Ernest Haag - Manager and Owner
Alice Haag - Front Door, Tickets
Tip and Alice the Elephants
(Billboard 5-26-1906, pg24)

1907
Babe the elephant bought from Frank A. Dobbine?

7-20-1907
Mighty Haag Shows - Touring Kentucky
Ernest Haag - General Manager and Proprietor
Frank Mcguyer - Assistant Manager and Treasurer
H. Emgard - Manager of Tickets
T. J. Oatman - Equestrian Director
King Bolt - Boss Canvasman of Annex
William Taylor - Charge of Stock
Harry R. Rhodes  -  bandmaster
(Billboard 7-20-1907, pg23,24)

8-5-1907
Haag's Mighty Trained Animal Shows (from Ad)

1908 - Helen Haag born

1909  -  Starts Mighty Haag Railroad Shows

The Mighty Haag Railroad Shows (1909-1914)

3-22-1910
The Mighty Haag Shows (from Ad)
Benefit Anti-Tuberculosis League

at Middletown Penn
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Haag Imperial Elephants
Roy Haag - Tickets
(Billboard 5-28-1910, pg18)

Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Opens at Shreveport Louisiana 3-20-1911
(Billboard 3-18-1911, pg76)

Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Roy Hague - Trainmaster
Harley D. Hubbard - Boss Hostler
(Billboard 3-22-1913, pg75)

3-27-1913 (from program)
Auspices BPOE No. 122
The Mighty Haag's Stud of Trained Elephants

Ernest Haag - Owner
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Roy Haag - Tickets
(Billboard 4-5-1913, pg10)

WWI  -  (1914-1918)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

1914
Tip, Alice, and ...  the Elephants

Ernest Haag - Proprietor and General Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Harley D. Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
Opens at Shreveport Louisiana 3-26-1914
(Billboard 3-28-1914, pg48)

1914 - Ends Mighty Haag Railroad Shows, back to wagons

Ernest Haag - Proprietor and General Manager
Harley D. Hubbard - Tickets
Roy Haag - Side Show Tickets
(Billboard 4-8-1915, pg56)

Harry Haag James born (3-15-1916)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

2-26-1917
Starts at Valdosta, Georgia
Performing Elephants
Roy Haag - Side-show Tickets
Everett James - Band Director
Mabel James - Calliope Player
(Billboard 3-24-1917, pg58)

Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Harley D. Hubbard - Secretary
Everett James - Musical Director
Opens at Shreveport, Louisiana
(Billboard 3-30-1918, pg64)

late 1910's - Arthur Silverlake's family moves to California

Peru Indiana becomes known as "Circus City"  (1920's)

John Robinson's Circus

1921
Harry Haag - Inside Ticket Seller (from program)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

Ernest Haag - Owner
Roy Haag - Assistant
Harry Haag - Assistant
Henry E. Haag - Traveling with for a short time
(Billboard 9-2-1922, pg62)

3-7-1923
Ernest Haag - Proprietor
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Mrs. Susie Haag - Secretary
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager
Harley D. Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
Opens at Marianna Florida
(Billboard 3-17-1923, pg82)

3-12-1924
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Mrs. H.E. Haag - Secretary
Harry Haag - Special Agent
Harley D. Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
(Billboard 3-22-1924, pg85)

Mighty Haag Shows at Marianna Florida (1-24-1925)

3-18-1925
Ernest Haag - Proprietor
Mrs. Alice Haag - Treasurer
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager and Legal Adjuster
Mrs. Susie Haag - Secretary
Fred Brown - Local Contr.
W.X. Fisher - Press Agent
Harley D. Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
(Billboard 3-21-1925, pg98)

Ernest Haag - Proprietor
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager
Fred Brown - Local Contr.
Harley D. Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
(Billboard 3-20-1926, pg211)

Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer and Front Door
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager
(Billboard 7-10-1926, pg56,59)

8-20-1927
Monroe NY
Harley Hubbard - Inside Tickets
Harry Haag - Superintendent of Concessions
Col. Haag (Ernest Haag)
(Billboard 8-27-1927, pg68)

3-24-1928
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager and Supervisor Priv.
Mrs. E. Haag - Treasurer
Fred Brown - Advance Press Agent
Harley Hubbard - Supervisor Reserved Seats
Charles Duncan - Superintendent of Elephants
Harry Haag - Announcer
(Billboard 3-24-1928, pg 175)

1928
Ruby Fisher Joins
Harry Haag Sr.  (1900-1935,1937,1938)
Helen Haag (...1936-1938)
Josephine Fisher Silverlake
Tip and Alice the Elephants

Ruby, Josephine, Sarah, Arthur Fisher join the show with Brownie(1928)
at Rockville Indiana
Arthur Fisher was a clown
Ruby does the double trap with Archie Timberlake

Josephine (15 yrs old) marries Brownie Timberlake (1928)
(they met when Josephine joined Mighty Haag)

Brownie was a clown and aerialist (family had aerialist act - Flying Silverlakes?)
Brownie's father, Archie,  was an aerialist and did the double traps with Ruby Haag
Archie Silverlake had a twin brother, His twin was Arthur Lake's father
Brownie's cousin was Arthur Lake (Dagwood and Blondie)

Ruby Fisher (16 yrs old) marries Harry Haag Sr. (Royal Center Indiana at home) (1928)
Roy Haag and wife at wedding

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

2-9-1929
The Silverlakes
Four Fisher Sisters - Acrobats and Aerialists
(Billboard 2-16-1929, pg62)

3-23-1929
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Mrs. E Haag - Treasurer and Secretary
Fred Brown - Local Contr.
Harry Haag - Equestrian Director
H.D. Hubbard - Superintendent Reserved Seat Tickets
(Billboard 3-23-1929, pg94)

Stock Market Crash 1929

Charles Haag born (Royal Center Indiana at home) (11-19-1929)

Rain or Shine (1930)
movie with Joe Cook
Ruby Haag? - aerial
 (from Morning Gleaner,  Henderson Kentucky newspaper 4-27-1938)

also stars, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers and William Collier Jr.
(Oakland Tribune, California 8-27-1930)

Joe Cook
 ....
 Smiley Johnson

Louise Fazenda
 ....
 Frankie, 'The Princess'

Joan Peers
 ....
 Mary Rainey

William Collier Jr.
 ....
 Bud Conway

Tom Howard
 ....
 Amos K. Shrewsberry

Dave Chasen
 ....
 Dave

Alan Roscoe
 ....
 Dalton, the ringmaster

Adolph Milar
 ....
 Foltz, the Lion Tamer

Clarence Muse
 ....
 Nero

Nella Walker

Edward Martindel
 ....
 Mr. Conway

Nora Lane
 ....
 Grace Conway

Tyrell Davis
 ....
 Lord Gwynne (as Tyrrell Davis)

rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Dannie Mac Grant
 ....
 (uncredited)

Rolfe Sedan
 ....
 Bit Role (uncredited)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

4-4-1931
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Ruby Haag - Secretary
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager
(Billboard 4-4-1931, pg72)

Harry Haag Jr. born (Royal Center Indiana at home) (5-19-1931)
Ethel Jennier calls him Rip (sleeps a lot)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)
8-27-1932
Ernest Haag - Proprietor and Manager
Ruby Haag - Secretary
Harry Haag - Assistant Manager and Legal Adjuster
Mrs. Ernest Haag - Secretary and Front Door
Betty Haag - Dog Troupe
Ruby Haag - Alice and Tip the Elephants
Ruby Haag - Roman Ladders, Iron Jaw, Swinging Ladders
(Billboard 9-3-1932, pg 32, 35)

7-29-1933
Ruby Haag - Haag Elephants (2)
Ruby Haag - Roman Ladders, Iron Jaw
Harry Haag - Legal Adjuster
Mrs. Ernest Haag - Front Door
Helen Haag Durett - Ticket Taker
(Billboard 8-5-1933, pg 28, 31)

United Amusement Co. (...1934...)
"We can furnish anything in show business
from a one man vaudeville to a three ring circus"
Royal Center Indiana
Dr. Fisher and Family
Harry and Ruby Haag
Brownie and Josephine Silverlake

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)
5-4-1935
Ruby Haag - Dogs
Ruby Haag - Haag's Elephants
Bertha Haag - Menage
Pit Show - Buster Hayes
Mrs. Ernest Haag - Owner
Harry E. Haag - General Manager
Helen Durret - Secretary, Treasurer
Roy Haag - Assistant manager, Legal Adjuster
Harley Hubbard - Reserved Seats
(Billboard 5-4-1935, pg 42)

Tom Mix Circus (1934, 1935-1938)
Tom Mix buys 1/2 of Sam B Dill Circus (1934)
Tom changes name to Sam B Dill Circus and Tom Mix Wild West Combined
Tom buys Sam B Dill Circus and changes name to Tom Mix Circus (1935)
cast of 150
cast of 50 and 11 band members - 1937
75 trucks  -  1937
Tom Mix Circus fails, bad year for circuses - 1938

Naomi Haag born (Royal Center Indiana at home) (11-11-1934)
Ruby Haag and Ethyl Jennier had planned to go on the Tom Mix Show

Ernest Haag dies in Marianna Fl  (2-1-1935) at age 69
heart failure
Funeral at Presbyterian church in Marianna
(Albert Korst was a close friend)
buried in Plymouth In
 

Harry Haag Jr. goes to school in Marianna (preschool? kindergarten?)
driven by Shorty Rhodes in an Austin car (used as a clown car)

1935  -  William Buckles Woodcock born in Missouri

Walter L Main Circus (1885-1937)
(reorganized Honest Bill Motorized Circus)
Walter Main and William "Honest Bill" Newton Jr. owners (1930, 1935-1937)

(5-25-1935)
at Carrollton Ohio
Ruby and Harry Haag - Trained Dogs

Tarzan -Is he man or ape?
Sacred White Dromedary - as tall as an elephant
Cupid the talking pony
Jumbo Jr the elephant
Egyptian Camels
(Daily Courier, Penn.  5-29-1935)

Wrestling Grissley Bear - will wrestle the best man in town
Mickey McGuire - Wild West Show
Gorilla
(Wellsboro Agitator, Penn.  6-19-1935)

Bud Hawkins Circus (March 1936 - Aug 1936)
Bud Hawkins - Owner
Al Sigsbee - General Manager


(Ruby, Josephine, Arthur - Fisher Troupe of Acrobats)
(Harry Haag Sr. - Equestrian Director)
(Ruby Haag - Trained Dogs)
Ruth Fisher
6-19-1936 in Libertyville IL
(31 trucks and house cars)

7-4-1936
in Cincinnati
Fischer Troupe of Acrobats
Harry Haag Sr. - Equestrian Director
Mlle. Ruby - Single Traps, Human Fly
(Billboard 7-11-1936, pg36)

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

9-2-1936
Livingston
Dale's Pasture
Tan Araki Troupe
Miss Helen Haag - Carried Full Length of Tent in Elephant's Mouth
 (newspaper ad, 1936)

5-1936
Helen Haag - Elephant
 

Harry Haag's All Star Circus Revue (from newspaper)
(1936 ?)
Pretty Girls, Funny Clowns, Acrobats, Aerialists, Trained Dogs, Roping, and other Novelties
Circus Revue this week at Ye Olde Tavern
St. Marys Ave at Route 30 West
Notice: Outstanding Aerial Act outside of the Tavern every night at 9 O'clock

Browning?, (misprint?) Brownie?
Silverlake Trio
Raymond Duke
The Gregory Boys
Trained Dogs
Jargo and Buzz
Miss Josephine
Fisher Troupe
and others

Schwarz Bros owners
(...4-1936...)

Twice Harry Haag owned his own winter shows

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)

4-20-1937
Dayton
Miss Helen Haag - Carried Full Length of Tent in Elephant's Mouth
(1937 newspaper ad)

5-1937
Alice Haag - Owner
Harry Haag
Helen Haag

6-16-1937
Helen Haag - Elephants Alice and Tip

12-12-1936
Helen Haag - Alice the Elephant - Body Carry in Mouth (photo)
Closes in Adel Georgia
(Billboard 1-9-1937, pg 37)

Harry Haag's Big 3 Ring Circus (from ticket) (from letterhead) (1935?, 1936, 1937?)
R.C. Schwarz - President
Harry E. Haag - General Manager
Sam L. Schwarz - Secretary Treasurer

Permanent Address
PO Box 122
Mobile Alabama

America's Best 3 Ring Circus
 

12-1937  Jury ruled Amelia Haag Shadel committed suicide
just prior to death, will was altered leaving bulk to Roy Shadel, a nephew
cutting off nephew Harry Haag and 2 nieces

Mighty Haag Show closed - 1938
(elephants placed in Charles Fisher's name)

Fisher's Performing Elephants

Olympia Circus (1928?...1931-1943)
10th Annual
Chicago Stadium, Chicago Illinois
Ruby Haag - dogs  (1938) April?

Chicago Stadium with a big circus (...?...)
Alice the elephant drops Ruby Haag in Chicago Stadium where Sonya Henne ice skated (?)
back hits tub, fractured ribs on xray

Jr Order of American Mechanics
 (from Morning Gleaner,  Henderson Kentucky newspaper 4-27-1938)
Indoor fair, Ogden Warehouse
45 booths
6 standard acts of Vaudeville
Ruby Haag - Aerialist (1938)
Miss Haag appeared in "Rain and Shine" with star Joe Cook
 performing same act as in film
Arlene Bowman - tap and acrobatic dances
Hildred - Slack Wire and Balancing, trained dogs that walk wire and dance
Hoosier Sweetheart, Miss Lorene Smith - heard over WEOA present popular songs
Barret Browser - leader of Orchestra
The Exposition will continue through Saturday

The Mighty Haag Shows (1894-1938) (1892-1938?)
Harry Haag - Construction (1938) - after July?
Alice Haag - Owner
Helen Haag - Manager

4-16-1938
Blakely Georgia
The Mighty Haag Circus opened at Marianna Florida, April 8.  Day was cold. Schools were dismissed for afternoon performance.  At night all seats were filled. The Program.
Spec - The Dice Box (all performers and side-show people)
In Order:
Clowns
Riding Monks
Riding Dogs
Baby Elephant Walk Around
Norman and 4 girls in Endurance and Strength
Man doing all holding one leg
Watkins' Dogs
Perch - Billy Daniels
Ladders  and Web - Misses Bee, Jones, Pettis
Web - Miss Mathews
Watkins' Bucking Mules
Iron Jaw - Misses Bee and Pettis
Clowns
Haag's Wire Walking Dogs
Watkins' High- Diving Dogs
Bicycle - Valentine Trio
Leaping Greyhounds
Clowns
Double Traps -  Pauline and Marguerite
Balancing Traps - Keister
Traps and Muscle Grind - Billy Daniels
Clowns
Pony Drills - Watkins and Russell
Foot Slide - Miss Bee
Rings - Keister, Dale
Rope Act - Valentine Trio
Rings - Mathews, Pettis
Menage - Misses Jones and Jackson
Charles Russell and King - doing the Rumba
Swinging Ladders - Misses Mathews, Jones, Pettis, Bee, Jackson, Dale, Lee, myna
Clowns
Cloud Swing - Daniels, Keister
Elephants - Helen Haag Hayes, Charles Duncan (trainer)
Mrs Ernest Haag - Manager
Charles Russell - Equestrian Director
Sam Maultsby - Boss of Props
Ed Hazle - Animals
Carl Hernd - Boss Canvasman
William Gaines - Lights
George Green - Mechanic
Napoleon Reed - Cookhouse
Fred Cummings - Banners
Guy Smuck - Side Show
King and Bertha Bert - Pit Show
Lester Hayes - Concession Department
Hooper Bennett - Outside Stand
E.B. Sterchi - Legal Department
S.W. Floyd - Band Leader
Band - Dave Rowland, Daniel Seibert - Cornets
S. Bossard - Bass
Charles Deatrick - Baritone
Davie Thomas - French Horn
O.O. Davis, George Myers - Trombones
G.B. Carroll, W. Simpson - Clarinets
Clown Alley - Albert Miller, Sig Bonhomme, Lew Gish, Bert Jackson, Bing Roberts, Dell Simmons, Watkins
(Billboard 4-23-1938, pg34)

______________?_____________
(4-1939)
Ruby and Harry Haag
train from Seymour to Hibbings Minn
3 days of trapeze, dogs
back on 5-1-1939 to resume training elephants

Elks Circus (1934-1941...)
Gray's Circus
G.G. Gray - Impressario

(June 1- 7,1939)
Bismarck North Dakota
World War Memorial Building
6th Annual
Ruby Fisher - Fisher Elephants 
Aerial Ballet
Haag's Performing Dogs
Miss Ruby, Ruby Haag - Loop Walk
Judy the Elephant
Alice the Elephant
Haris Troupe of Comedy Acrobats
Nellis Clown Troupe
Aerial Matthews
Paul Duo - Gymnasts
Ray Goody - Acrobatic Comedian of the Tight Wire
Stalac Brothers and Pearl - Teeterboard Gymnasts
Salton and Parodoner - European Gymnasts
The Clairs - Jugglers and Acrobats
(Bismarck Tribune, ND 6-1-1939)

1938-1950  -  Arthur Lake (Silverlake) plays Dagwood Bumstead
in Blondie (Penny Singleton) (28 films)

WWII  -  (1939-1945)

Hitler invades Poland (1939)

Syrian Shrine Circus
Polack Bros (1931-1976)(1932-1976?)
Irving Polack and Sam Stern - owners

February 11-18, 1940
Music Hall North Arena
Ruby Haag - Trained Dogs
Ruby Haag - Single Trapeze, Heel and Toe Catches, Swinging Ladder,
Iron Jaw, Loop Walk
Ruby Haag - Judy the Elephant
Harry Haag - Judy the Elephant
(Billboard 2-24-1940, pg 30,59)

10-12-1940  -  Tom Mix died in car accident

1941  -  Melvin Timberlake (Silverlake) born

Elks Circus (1934-1941...)
Gil Gray
Bismarck North Dakota
World War Memorial Building

Remember Judy the baby elephant that was such a hit at the Elks  circus in Bismarck a year ago? Judy with her trainer, Miss Ruby, will be back again this year to entertain when the circus opens in the World War Memorial building, Tuesday, Mar. 26, for a five-day stand. Ruby and Judy comprise only one of the 25 professional acts.
(Bismarck Tribune, ND  3-15-1940)

Judy the Elephant
walks a single rail fence
3 years old
(Bismarck Tribune, N.D. 3-26-1940)

March 26-30, 1940
9th annual circus
shows at 2:15 and 8:15pm
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs
Charles Duncan - Elephant trainer and helper
Ruby and Harry Haag - Fisher Elephants
Judy the Elephant
Chris Cornella - Clown
Olympia Troupe (3 people)- Bus Owens, Trapeze
Don Phillipe - High Wire
Joe Gordon - mind reading pony
Rue Enos - the Human Pretzel
Gordon Smith's Dogs, Rhesus Monkey and Pony
Joe Melvin - Hoops, Diablos, Boomerang
Morris Troupe - Teeterboard
Olympia Boys
Elks Circus Girls - Aerial Ballet, Trapeze, Spanish Web
25 professional acts
(Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota 3-27-1940)

Harry Haag, again demonstrates that he is one of the top notch elephant trainers of the world. His elephants, big and little,  have been here before but never with the repertoire of tricks they have this year.  Miss Ruby Fisher, who handles the beasts as easily as she does her dogs in another act, brought gasps from the stands as she permitted the bigger of the elephants to carry her about the ring in her mouth.  Judy, the smaller not only walks the tight wire and  a 6 by 6 plank, but turns around on the plank with a pirouette a ballet dancer would envy.
(Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota 3-27-1940)

Wave of Accidents at Circus Ominous, Girl Trapeze Performer Falls and elephant Bruises Another Girl Star,
Who will be next?  That's what Bismarck Elks circus performers were wondering Friday as a wave of accidents that started with the very first performance in the World War Memorial building here Tuesday continued through Thursday's performances.  Hurtling off a high trapeze Thursday afternoon, Miss Vivian Nelson, a member of the aerial ballet, escaped broken bones but bruised and scratched herself.  In the evening, Miss Ruby Fisher, a mite of a woman who bravely allows her elephants to virtually manhandle her, was mauled by Judy, the baby elephant, as Miss Fisher lay on the floor while Judy stepped across her.  Gordon Smith, animal trainer whose hand was badly lacerated by a rhesus monkey Wednesday, was under opiates Thursday. Although he was running a temperature, his physician told him they believed he will escape infection. Bus Owens, one of the three Olympia boys who sprained a wrist during the high trapeze act Tuesday, was fit again.  Miss Nelson was balancing her body on the swinging trapeze without support of either hands or feet when she slipped and fell to the memorial building floor. The fact that she landed on her buttocks probably saved her from breaking bones. While few spectators realized that Miss Fisher was in danger, Harry Haag, Elephant trainer, explained that an elephant can easily crush a human with one slow movement of it's trunk or feet.  Remaining performances of the circus will be at 8:15 Friday and Saturday. If necessary, Gil Gray impresariom announced, there will be two matinees Saturday afternoon. Bismarck and Mandan school children will be Saturday matinee guests.
(Bismarck Tribune, N. Dakota 3-29-1940)

Like Any Man, Elephants Can Be Tamed by Feeding, Feed elephants when you train them and pet dogs is the advice of Mrs. H.E. Haag, wife of the owner of the Elks circus animals. Dressing for the act Wednesday in a a make shift dressing room behind the circus ring backdrop with other girls in the show milling around in various stages of dress and undress, Mrs. Haag told Tribune reporters of her work with dogs and elephants. Daughter of a circus family, she started her show career early. An expert aerialist, she did loop walking last year when the Elks show was in Bismarck. Assisting her in training her two elephants has been Charles Duncan, who has been with the animals since Alice, the mother, was born about 38 or 40 years ago. Judy, baby of the show is almost four years old. For her elephant act Mrs. Haag is billed as Miss Fisher. Judy, she says, sometimes balks when she walks the plank. At Mt. Vernon, finding it a little wobbly and excited by the presence of a band near by, Judy all by jumped through the band. Elephant training starts when the animals are about two years old, before that their backs are too weak. is it difficult? According to Mrs. Haag, no! All you have to do, she claims, is to let the elephant know you're boss and you're well on your way toward a good act. Bread and bananas are the favorite rewards given for a good performance. Life the elephants, the dogs of the circus have been with the show since they were born. There are seven in the act, fox terriers, one spitz and two "just dogs." Mrs. Haag, who is Miss Ruby when in the ring with her dogs, is partial to the spitz for a dog act, but says the terriers are equal in intelligence. The oldest is five years old. Both males and females are used. They love it, according to the trainer. Showing off before a crowd is real meat to them. The dogs start in training when about five months old. animals of the two acts are kept completely separate. Equally enthusiastic about them is Naomi Haag, 5 year old daughter of the Haags, who was seated all by herself low in the bleachers when the reporters went by. She was watching the clown with as much interest as if she hasn't seen him a hundred times before. "When I get big, mother," she tells Mrs. Haag, "I'm going to learn to walk the loops - then you won't have to work any more!" Naomi already has picked up tricks from the show folk but will really enter training for the big tent when she reaches her 6th birthday. She wandered in and out of the dressing room as her mother got into her costume. Seated on the table was another youngster, the baby of one of the aerialists, who cooed and smiled at the world at large as happily as if tucked in a buggy.  One of the girls told The Tribune reporters that she'd broken three ribs and an ankle in her aerial act. Did she leave the show? Of course not! She loves it and so stayed to take tickets. The next season she was back on the trapeze again.
(Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota 3-30-1940)

Wendell L. Wilkie Campaign
1940 against Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fisher Elephants

Greater Olympia Circus (1931-1943)
Chicago Stadium, Chicago Illinois - co-producers
Barnes-Carruthers - co-producers

(April 18 - May 4 1941) (from program)
Ruby Haag - Aerial Ballet
Haag's Elephants

4-26-1941
Haag's Elephants
Haag - Aerial Ballet
(Billboard 5-3-1941, pg43)

Shrine Circus
Winnipeg
Amphitheatre Rink
(5/1/1941 - 5/10/1941)
Miss Ruby Fisher, Corona (elephant helper)
Alice (42) and Judy (5 1/2)  the elephants
Fu the bear on a motorcycle
Ray Goody - Somersaults on the wires
Roland Tiebor - Musical Seals
Charles Siegrist - Trapeze
Orrin Davenport - Director and Producer

Pearl Harbor Bombed (12-7-1941)

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio

1942 - Haag's may not have been on the show

Elephants at Grotto Circus go on Rampage in Public Hall
It all started when one of the keepers took two of the elephants to Brookside zoo to return a mate, Trixie, to the circus. Trixie was loaned to the zoo two years ago by the circus and she was to resume her place in the elephant act this afternoon. The other elephants set up an ear splitting trumpeting and finally broke down their fences and ran wild in the basement of the hall.
(Lima News Ohio, 2-11-1942)

13th annual Grotto Circus - ends on 2-14-1942
more than 100 acts
Cleveland Public Auditorium
elephants
Wild Animals
Clowns
Bareback Riders
Terrell Jacobs - 32 Lions and Tigers
Aerial Ballet - 100 performers
Ray Goody
Emil Pallanberg - Bears
Reynolds and Donegan - Skaters
Kimris Trio
Dorrence and Reynolds - High Perch Act
The Great Gregoresko - The man who hangs himself
(Mansfield News Ohio, 2-5-1942)

King Bros Circus (1942. 1946-1956)
Allen King - owner

4-11-1942
Harry Haag - assistant director
(Billboard 4-18-1942, pg28)

1942
Haag or Fisher Elephants, Alice and Judy
(Bandwagon 11-1963)

Olympia Circus (1931-1943)
Chicago Stadium

April 17 - May 3 1942 (from program)
10th Annual
Chicago Stadium
Haag - aerial swing ballet
Haag's Elephants

King Bros Circus (1942, 1946-1956)
Allen King - owner

4-18-1942
Alice and Judy the elephants
Harry Haag - assistant director
Harry Haag - Dog act
(Bandwagon Nov/ Dec 1963, pg 23-25)

5-16-1942
Harry Haag - assistant director
Harry Haag - Dog Act
(Billboard 5-23-1942, pg 36, 55)

June 8, 1942 - Coshocton Ohio
Big Top
Clowns
Aerialists
Acrobats and Tumblers
High and Slack Wire Performers
(Coshocton Tribune, Ohio 6-4-1942)

(1942)
Alice and Toto - Elephants
Ruby Haag - Elephant Trainer
(Coshocton Tribune, Ohio 6-6-1942)
 

Olympia Circus (1931-1943)
Chicago Stadium
Ruby Haag - animals (...5-2-1942...)

3-21-1942
Haag's Elephants - act signed for April
(Billboard 3-28-1942, pg34)

4-25-1942
Haag's Elephants - Ruby Haag carried in mouth of elephant down tract
Haag - Aerial Swing Ballet (Ladders)
Fisher - Aerial Swing Ballet (Ladders)
(Billboard 5-2-1942, pg39,40,58)

Mammoth Olympia Indoor Circus
Direct from Chicago Stadium
Sheboygan's New Armory
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (2:30 and 8:30pm)
Adults 55 cents, Children 28 cents
Reserved Seats $1.10
Matinee on Saturday and Sunday
14 Big Acts
Pape and Conchita - 2 Acts
Torelli's Circus - 2 Acts
Pallenberg's Bears
Victoria Troupe - 6 Bicycle Riders
7 Fredysons - Teeterboard Act
Atlantic Brothers - Aerial Act
The 2 Buddies - Roller Skating Act
The Great Peters - The Man Who Hangs Himself for a Living
Cyce O'Dell and Ullaine Malloy - Aerial Girls
Daring Betty - Spiral Ball Act
Georgette Bros - Upside-Down Act
LeRoy Thompson Midget Troupe - Clowns
Sponsored by Sheboygan Baseball Association
(Sheboygan Press, Wisconsin  5-21-1942)

Olympia Circus (1931-1943)
John Norris - President of Chicago Stadium (controls Detroit Stadium)
Arthur Wirtz - Vice President of Chicago Stadium (controls Detroit Stadium)

Olympia Stadium - Detroit (May 8-17, 1942)
(Billboard 5-2-1942, pg39,40,58)
 

11-15-1942  Harry Haag, manager of Fisher's Elephants at Medora, Indiana, and his
elephant handler, Corena - arrived Saturday night at the Claude Krieg farms in Huntington
County to assist Modoc's would-be capturers. Modoc broke for freedom on Wednesday in Wabash, Indiana.
...Since Wednesday, when she made her break for freedom and tramped confusedly through the streets of Wabash, Ind., Damaging a home and a drug store, she has been on the verge of capture many times. Friday, surrounded by farmers, she injured one of them. Kenneth Kindley, 38, when he tripped while running from her. Modoc rolled over him accidentally and physicians gave him a 50-50 chance to live. Terrel Jacobs, Modoc's owner and trainer, said he was afraid her frequent baths in the Wabash and Salamonie Rivers would give her pneumonia. Farmers throughout the vicinity were afraid they wouldn't.
(Hammond Times, Indiana 11-15-1942)

Harry Haag, manager of Fisher Elephant Farm, Medora, Ind. volunteered to help capture Modoc with the aid of one of the farm's bull elephants.  According to the plan, Corina, Haag's huge assistant, would ride the bull into close quarters with Modoc. The man would try to loop a chain about the hunted animal and the bull would pull her to a position where she could be herded into a truck.  Modoc was lured out of a thicket for a few minutes when Corina fed her several dozen loaves of bread.  The elephant trainer placed a strap about Modoc while she ate.  She endured the strap quietly until consuming the bread., then broke it easily and lumbered back into the thicket.  Raymond Dukes, a former elephant trainer, who came here from his home at Ora, Ind., suggested she be fed bread.  Dukes fed her several dozen loaves of bread, gave her some hay, petted her and finally just lopped his hook around her ear and said, "Come on Modoc."  Modoc ambled peaceably over to a truck and after watching two other elephants enter trucks she walked in without a sign of resistance. One man was injured earlier in the hunt. 
(Hammond Times, Indiana 11-16-1942)

Ruby and Harry were visiting Terrell Jacobs at the time. The elephants had stampeded in the town and went out in the woods. Harry and Corine went up to Peru to offer help to get the elephants back to Jacob's farm.
(information from Grandma Ruby)

Annual Indoor Circus
Hammond Civic Center, Indiana
2nd annual
November 26-29, 1942
Benefit Civilian Defense
Hanneford Family, Poodles and Gracie
Margaret Pettis
Fisher's Elephants
Corina - Elephant boy
Admission 55 cents
(Hammond Times 11-18-1942)

Fisher's Elephants - Dumbo and Cutie ***
Hanneford Family - Bareback Riders
Rajah Troupe - Whirlwind Arabians
Margaret Pettis - The Sky High Girl
Lewis Brothers - Liberty Horses
(Hammond Times 11-19-1942)
***note:  Grandma Ruby says there wasn't a Dumbo and Cutie at the Fisher Farm, only Alice and Judy***

Olympia Circus (1931-1943)
Chicago Stadium

April 24 - May 9 1943 (from program)
11th Annual
Chicago Stadium
Haag - aerial swing ballet
Haag's Elephants

(April 24- May 9, 1943)
Modoc the Elephant - Herd of Elephants
Dolly Jacobs
Lion, Tiger
Lone Ranger and Silver
2 Performances daily
(Suburbanite Economist, Chicago 4-21-1943)
(Suburbanite Economist, Chicago 4-28-1943)

Thelma and Duke - Tigers had 3 kittens
named Red, White and Blue
(Suburbanite Economist, Chicago 5-9-1943)

Chicago Stadium
Doc Haag and elephants, Alice and Judy
(Alice's daughter Judy the Elephant was 8 years old) **not really related**
Snow the Spitz
Ruby Haag carried in Alice the elephant's mouth
(Chicago Daily News  5-8-1943)
 

Haag's Elephants
Ruby Haag - Aerial ballet
Ruby Haag - Ruby's Dogs
(Billboard 5-8-1943, pg37,38)
 

1943  -  The Great Peters died performing hanging act at Sells Floto Circus
Ruby Haag was there

5-1-1943 - William H. Woodcock "Bill" admitted to Circus Historical Society

Shrine Circus (Seils Sterling Circus) (1922-1938, 1844, 1947, 1975)
Sheboygan Wisconsin
Armory

November 1943
Fisher's Performing Elephants
Ruby Fisher - Upside walk swing
Miss Eva May - Spanish Web, Swinging Bar, Loop
Bill Blomberg - Liberty Horses
Nip, Tuck, and Twister - Comedy horizontal Bar Act
Flying La Forms
Selix Gray and Wilson - All Girl Acrobatic Act
(Sheboygan Press, Wisconsin 11-17-1943)

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio

15th Annual - 1944
Feb. 10-26, 1944

Ruby Haag - animals (1944)
Ruby Haag - Aerial Webb (2-21-1944)
Clyde Beatty - Lions and Tigers

Ruby Haag Falls with Web (2-21-1944)
(Ruby Haag fell with the web and fractured her pelvis, hip and back, Harry Sr. was there)
(Harry Haag Jr. was in Brownstown Indiana with Grandma)
(Dr said she would never perform again)
Her Dr. is the coroner (Cuyahoga county) for Sam Sheppard's Wife (1954)
Ruby Haag signs release to Al Sirat Grotto for future medical expenses 4-5-1944
(1 year later, Ruby performed web on a Orrin Davenport Shrine Show)

circus scheduled for Feb. 15-25, 1944
 

Orrin Davenport from Chicago - booking agent for Shrine Shows
1937 stops riding act
(late 1940's - a leader in the indoor shows)
(He used Ringling acts, Independent acts to Grand Rapids, Detroit, other cities as annual Shrine Circus)
(1950's grew in stature)

Ruby and Harry Haag
Shrine Shows (...1944-1957...)

Harry Haag Sr.  (1940-1957)
performer and transportation superintendent

*** book, A history of the Shrine Circus
by John H. McConnell
Haag's Dogs mentioned

Helen Haag's Chimpanzees (...1950-1966...)
Indoor Shows and Ed Sullivan
Shrine Circus shows (...1950-1966...)

Jack Joyce - for various Shriner's Circus
(1951-1960)

3-12-1944, 1945? - Alice the Elephant dies in Medora Indiana
the caretaker took her out in the winter to drink from a creek
she stayed out in the cold too long
Ruby Haag was at a theater in Indianapolis, also attending the Showman's Convention

Zuhrah Shrine Circus
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Auditorium
(March 13-18, 1944) 26th annual

Zuhrah Temple's Famous Band - Al Rudd
Acrobatic Clowns, Russell Jeirre, Chick Yale
Clown Comedy Ladders, Jimmy Gerber, The Lang Tots
Aerial Ballet, Ruby Haag, Jane Merideth - Swinging Neck Swival
Cyse O'Dell, One Armed Phalanges, Bob Atterbury, Louise Atterbury
Dick Clemens - Performing Lions direct from Hollywood
Buddy and his mule "Democrat" and clowns
Clara Hoaglan and Company "a Chick and Fancy display of Dressage Horses"
Selden - the Stratosphere Man
Maximo - the Cuban Wonder on the Slack Wire
The Saxons - Feats of Dexterity and Balance
Don Phillipe - The Brazilian Wonder on the Tight Wire
Miss Watkins - The Watkins Military Ponies
Clowns - Frolic of Nonsense
Nick Cravat and Co. - Feats of Skill on the Bars
Walter Gruice and Co. - The Trampoline Wonders
The Three Irvings - Feats of Skill on the Bars
Dolly Jacobs Elephants - Performing Pachyderms
Clowns - The Phalanx of Phools
Canine Capers - Wright Dogs, Sylvia and her pets, Haag's Dogs
The Great Gregoresko, the Argentine Thriller - the only man that hangs himself and lives
Bud and Jean - the Rollerettes, the Whirlettes - Feats of Skill on Skates
Jinks Hoaglan and Company - Battling Pepin and other High Jumping Horses
The Great Tarzan Moving Picture Chimpanzee
Tarzan the only Motorcycle Riding Chimpanzee
The Watkins Baby Chimpanzees, Adam and Eve
Clowns - Joyous Jesters
Rousse - Master Illusionist presenting "Sans Gene"
featuring Princess Helane who will disappeare while suspended 95 feet in mid-air
Count Ernesto and his Dizzy Lizzie
Acrobats - The Cardovas, The Six Langs
The Greer World's Champion Stallions, Liberty Horse Act - William Bushbuam
Clowns Convention
Harold Voise Company - Flying Return Act

4-5-1944  -  Ruby Haag signs release to Al Sirat Grotto for future medical expenses

Barnes Bros (1930,1944-1948)
Barnes Bros - Olympia Combined Circus (1944)
Chicago Stadium Corp - owner (1944-1948)
James Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz - officers (1944-1948)


Barnes Bros - Olympia Combined Circus (1944)

April 14 - May 7 1944
12th annual
Chicago Stadium
Ruby Haag - Swing Ballet of the Air
Haag's Elephants

Misses Haag - Air Ballet
Haag's Elephants
(Billboard 5-6-1944, pg40,59)

___________?___________
3-1945?  newspaper
Harry Haag - Harry Haag's Dogs
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs
Naomi - age 10, trained black Cocker Spaniel
Sonny Moore - Dogs

Miss Ruby, who has trained dogs since she was 9 and has had her own dog act since she was 12, prefers female to male dogs in her act. They are more easily trained and more affectionate, she said. She has worked with elephants, horses and most other animals used in circuses, but prefers dogs because they are smarter and more responsive, she said. In rehearsals, she added, the dogs will go through their work perfectly but when the music is on and a crowd is around them they will slide out of their routine if they choose to because they know that on a split-second program you haven't the time to make them toe the mark.

The Haags and Moore agree that dogs for circus acts must be treated like children, too much discipline will make a dog refuse to take pleasure in its work and a dog that does not like his stuff is useless in the show business.

date?
Corine became acquainted with the crew of workers at the Chicago Stadium and got a job.
Corine stayed there for quite a few years
(information from Grandma Ruby)

St. Louis Police Circus
(April 22 - May 6,1945)
Haag's Dogs
Harry Haag's Elephants
(Billboard 5-5-1945, pg42)

D-Day (6-6-1944)

Ringling Bros and BB Big Top burned in Hartford Connecticut (7-6-1944)

Raymond Duke marries Emma Scott Briggs  (12-14-1944)
(from 1944-1975 works on Famous Barnes Trained Wild Animal Show, Russell Bros, Bailey Bros, Clyde Beatty,
Stevens Bros, Adams & Sells,  Sells Bros, Birnam Bros, Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros, Ring Bros,
Clark & Walters, Fisher Bros)

Cole Bros train wreck en route to Minnesota (6-27-1945)

King Tusk the elephant brought to the United States

Hitler died (1945)

Bud E Anderson (1923-1925, 1939-1941, 1944-1945)
Ruby Haag - aerial (1945)

Ruby -  Aerial Ballet
(Billboard 5-26-1945, pg45,64)

6-11-1945
Helena
Bud E Anderson All-American Circus
Rodeo Ranger - White Stallion Tonto
Aerial Ballet
Trapeze
Wire Walkers
Clowns
Trained Ponies
Monkeys
 

1-1946 Buck Lucas asks Harry Haag Sr. to join Banard Bros Circus, but he doesn't join
Harry has 2 acts - elephant
Harry mentions Brownie and Josephine

Montgomery County Fair
(Sept 1-5, 1945)
Fonda
Charles Doc Haag (labor day 1945)
Judy the elephant
Photo: riding Judy
Nell Haag of Medora, Bill Shigley - Wyoming St., Robert Fox of Illinois
Ronnoe Floridis - Madriver Rd., Doc Haag of Medora, Robert Eichenauer - Shiloh Springs Rd

(from newspaper)
Montgomery Fair Grounds
9-1945 (labor day)
Judy the Elephant (11 years old)
riding on Judy: Nell Haag, Bill Shigley, Robert Fox, Ronnoe Floridis, Charles Doc Haag, Robert Eichenauer

Damascus Shrine Circus
Rochester New York
Ruby Haag - dogs (11-1945)

Crystal
Free attraction time places Fisher's Circus as the two show a night feature and stars Judy, the tight wire walking elephant and 15 canine stars in true circus background. Ruby Fisher who is the trainer of the animal attraction, is master of ceremonies.
(The Advocate, Newark Ohio 7-29-1946)

Midian Shrine Circus
Wichita, Kansas
Ruby Haag - dogs (1946)

From The Wichita Eagle (12-3-1846)
8th annual Shrine Circus at the Forum
Merle Evans of Ringling Bros led the Shrine Circus Band
28 acts
Dick Clements - Wild Animal Act, Lions (2 fought in Texas to death)
Eva May, Miss Corrine - Cloud Swing
The Orantos (a trio) - High Perch
Miss Lewis, Miss Dearo - Trapeze
Ester Escalante - Toe and Heel Catch Trapeze
The Flying Harolds - Aerialist
Bert Dearo - danced, climbed ladders, Slack Wire
Don Francisco - Comedian, Acrobat on High Wire
The Webb Girls - Aerial
Dorita and Alexander Konyot - pair of Dressage Horses, Large Bay Horse and Chestnut Horse
High School Horses
Paul Nelson - Pony Drill, Silver Cloud the Jitterbug Horse, Liberty Horse Act on Trampoline
Clos Brothers - Boxing Horses
Miss Ruby Haag - Dogs
Walter Jennier - Buddy the trained Seal
Eugene Scott - Cole Bros Circus Elephants
Circus through Saturday, night shows 8:15, Matinees 2:15

Miss Ruby Haag and her dogs romped through routines which demanded skill on the part of both trainer and the dogs. Several of the animals clowned through the act much to the entertainment of children present.

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Ohio
Public Auditorium

(Feb 17 - March 2, 1947) (from program)
18th Annual
Orrin Davenport - Produced and Staged
Processional Paget
Milt Harriott and Mahlon Campbell - Liberty Shetland Ponies
Clyde Beatty - Black-Maned Nubian Lions and Bengal Tigers
The John-Gibson Hollywood Sky Ballet
Violette and Rooks High Head-Balancing
Comedy Acrobats, Aerialists: Dick Lewis and Company, The Famous Chambertys, Bozo Harrell
High Perch Performers: The Great Davisos, The Antaleks, The Orantos
Clowns
Walter Jennier - Buddy the Sea Lion
The Shyrettos - Bicycling Act
Bill Voges - Cowboy Star with Horse Silver Flash
Joan - Cloudswing
Levally Sisters - Trapeze
Ester Escalante - Toe and Heel Catch
The Antaleks - Trapeze
BeBe - Cloudswing
Eva May - Trapeze
Jean Evans - Trapeze
Marion Sisters - Trapeze
Corine - Trapeze 
Clowns: Jimmy Davison, Gabley De Koe, Otto Greibling, Freddy Freeman
The Ortans - Acrobats, Ladder
The Karls - Ladders
Miss Ortans Cristiani - Acrobat
The Grotefents - Ladders
Dorita Konyot and Company - Educated Horses
Haute Ecole - Equestrian
Bert Dearo, Hubert Castle, Don Francisco - Tight-Wire
The Randys, The Harold Vois Troupes - Gymnasts
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Educated Canines
Sonny Moore and His Roustaboughts
Haag's Educated Canines
Cowboys and Cowgirls - Bill Voges
La Louisa - Trapeze and Web
Eugene Scott -Elephants
Jean Evans, Patricia Scott, Dianne Lovett
Karl Wallenda Troupe - High-wire
Cristiani Family - Bareback Riders with Lucio
Capt. John Smith, Milt Herriott, Mahlon Campbell - Horses
Clowns
The Flying Concellos
The Flying Harolds
Finale
Clowns: Otto Greibling, Brownie, Dick Lewis, George LaSalle, Sherman  Brothers, Warren Bell, Baganghi,
Jack  Voise, Joe Lewis, Freddie Freeman, Jimmy Davidson, Earl Shipley, Kenneth Waite and Co., Fred Patterson, John Lewis Leigh, Harry Bedow, Harold Jender, Felix Adler, Everett Hart, Billy Alcott, Alva Evans, Slim Ray, Ray Wright, Fay Alexandria, Eddie Kohl, Bill Vine, Gabley Dekow, Paul Jerome, Ray McDonald, Bozo, Bill Leach, Nate Small, Virgil Mann, Bob Martin
 

Shrine Circus
Winnipeg
Ruby Haag - 14 dogs (1947)
Buddy the Seal
Elephant
Rags the Dog
(Winnipeg 5-9-1947)

Osman Shrine Circus
St Paul MN
Ruby and Harry Haag - dogs (1947)

Braly Circus (...1949-1953)
E.R. Braly - owner
Ruby Haag - dog (1947)
Ruby Haag - Fisher Elephants (1947)
Limestone County Fair

Princess Whitecloud - Soloist andOrganist, Hammond organ solovox and cathedral chimes
The Three Jerks - Comedy Acrobatic Knockabout
Bill and Jean - Perch
Whitey Harris and Roy Barrett - Klownland
Miss Ruby's Acrobatic Dogs - Somersaulting Dogs
Clowns
Tex Smith and his comedy horse, Eight Ball
Armstrong Trio - Acrobatic Balancing
The Six Irwins - Teeterboard Acrobatics
Fisher's Elephants - Miss Ruby Fisher
Mel Hall - unicycle Ace
Klownland - The happy family of fun
The Melzoras - The Flying Trapeze
Raymond Melzora - the Flying Comedian
Dr. E.R. Braly - General Manager
Tommy Thompson - Sound Engineer, Stage Dircetor
George Marquis - Master of Ceremonies, Press and Radio
Whitey Harris - Producing Clowns
Mrs. Bill Nesbit - Princess Whitecloud
Seat in Grandstand - Adults 25 cents, Children 15 cents
Fair Admission - Adults 50 cents, tax 10 cents
Children 25 cents, tax 5 cents
Parking 25 cents


Miss Ruby and Her Pets, Miss Ruby shows the worth of the true circus background in her expert handling of the 15 odd canine performers known as Ruby's  Pets. "All about the dogs" is the phrase that best describes Ruby's toy town terriers and their uncanny ability to clown perform and in general disprove the belief that animals are dumb, because this noted trainer has created a dog act than which there is nothing better. With the Braly Circus grandstand attractions.
(Limestone Democrat, Athens Alabama 9-18-1947)
(The Alabama Courier, Athens 6-26-1947)

La Crosse Shrine Circus
Ward Bros Circus (1948-1950)

June-25-27-1948 (from Program)
Harry Haag - Lotus the Elephant

Archie Gayer - manager
Harry Haag - dogs (1948)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Ruby Haag - dogs (1949)

Osman Shrine Circus
St Paul MN
Ruby and Harry Haag - dogs (1949)

Lawrence County Tennessee Fair (1949)
(9-26-1949  -  10-1-1949)
Poodles Hanneford Troupe

Cole Bros Circus (1906-9, 1912-13, 1916-17, 1918-24, 1929-30, 1935-36, 1937-48, 1949)
Eugene "Arky" Scott was in charge of the Elephant bulls (1942-1949)

Bill Woodcock Sr - elephants (...1944...)

1948
Cristiani Family (Lucio) - bareback riders
Otto Greibling, Freddie Freeman, Horace Laird - clowns
Eugene Scott - Superintendent of Menagerie and Trainer of the Elephant herd
Patricia Scott, Marion Knowlton , Bobbie Donovan
Blanch the elephant

Mite - smallest man in the world (36 inches tall)

1949
(Charles "Doc" Haag worked for Arky Scott) (...1949...)
Doc and elephant Big Babe

sold to Arthur Wirtz (1949,1950)
Arthur owned for several years, then leased out to King Bros in 1954
equipment later left at Peru Indiana

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio
Harry Haag - Dogs and Ponies (1950)
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Canines (1950)

2-13-1950 (for 2 weeks) from program
Orrin Davenport - Producer
Public Auditorium
Col. Harry Thomas - Equestrian Director and Announcer
Izzy Cervone - Guest Bandmaster
Processional Pageant
Clowns
Joe Walch - Wild Animals
Miss Rietta - High Swaying Pole Act
The Voise Trio - Comedy Aerial Bars
Francis Brunn - Juggler, The Nijinski of the Magic Globes
Clowns
The Orantos - High Perch
The Martells - Rollo-Bollo Balancing Act
Francisoc and Dolores - Novelty Balancing
Claussen's Bears
Gutis Gorilla Parody
Madeline - Claudine - Aerial
Kay Clarke
Don Dorsey
Margas Sisters - Corrinne
La Norma - Rose Behee
Dick Lewis - Table Rocks
The Chambertys - Comedy Trapeze
George and Kay - Trampoline Act
Clowns Car Plymouth
Unus - Walks on his Forefinger
Clowns - Bendix Washing Machine
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Canines
Charles Peterson's - Jockey Dogs
Harry Haag - Harry Haag's Dog and Ponies
Clowns - Lou Jacobs and midget auto
Webb Girls, Princess Mussetta - Aerial, Toe and Heel Catch
George Hanneford Family Bareback Riding Act - Miss Kay Frances Hanneford
Tien Tsi Liu Troupe - Chinese Acrobats
Bokaras Troupe - Teeterboard
The Kurts - Balancing Act
Gena Morczkowski, Chas. Morczkowski, Andre Fox - Liberty Horses
Clowns' Band
The Wallendas - High Wire
Hugo Schmidt - Elephants
Clowns
The Flying Concellos, The Flying Harrolds - Trapeze

Five elephants still were stomping around on an ice-covered loading platform this morning, refusing to get on board a specially constructed circus freight car. The ruckus started when it was found the railroad car the pachyderms were to travel in ahd a broken door. The animals, used to tropical climates, would be endangered riding in a draft. So the handlers tried to move them into another car. The elephants, seven of which were in the first freight car, began acting up when they slipped around on the ice. Four were finally wheeled into the second car. Up to early this morning, the other five were still loudly protesting the switch. The rest of the Al Sirat Grotto circus train left before midnight. The elephants, it is hoped, will be on their way to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. at noon today.
(Lima News, Ohio 2-27-1950)

A winch and much shoving got Minnie, the balky elephant, aboard a train for Florida Monday. A fall on the ice Sunday night while a circus car was being loaded caused Minnie's stubbornness and held up the shipment of 14 elephants for 18 hours. The animals had been performing in the AL Sirat Grotto circus here and were being taken to winter quarters at Sarasota Fla.
(Mansfield News Journal, Ohio 3-2-1950)

Osman Shrine Circus
St Paul MN
Harry Haag - dogs (1950)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Ruby Haag - dogs (1950) Feb?

Yaarab Shrine Circus
Atlanta Georgia
Helen Haag - Chimps (1950)

Zembo Shrine Circus
Hamid Morton Circus
3rd annual
Farm Show Arena
Helen Haag - Chimps (April -22,1950)
(Billboard 5-6-1950, pg 71,104)

Hamid Morton Shrine Circus (1935-1956) (1961-1969...)
formed by Morton and George Hamid
Harry Haag (indoor circus, NJ fairgrounds) (?)
(late 1940's - a leader in the indoor shows)
(1950's grew in stature)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Fairgrounds Coliseum
Detroit Michigan
(...2-19-1951...)

Ruby Haag - dogs (2-1951)

Prince, a big African Lion, kills Sheba a royal Bengal tiger of Clyde Beatty's animal act (2-19-1951)

Prince the Lion attacks Rosie the Tiger (3-1-1951)

Aladdin Shrine Circus
State Fairgrounds Coliseum
Columbus Ohio
April 2-7, 1951
doors open at 1 and 7pm
performances at 2:15 and 8:15pm
Clowns: Earl Shiply, Percy Radimaker, Cecil Edington, Joe Lewis, Jack and Ruby Landrus
(Newark Advocate, Ohio 3-27-1951, 3-30-1951)

Harry Haag - (April 2-7, 1951)

Zembo Shrine Circus
Hamid Morton Circus
Harrisburg, Penn
Farm Show Arena
4th annual
Miss Helen Haag - Chimps (April 2-7,1951)
(from program)

Osman Shrine Circus
St Paul MN
Harry Haag - dogs (1951)

Tripoli Shrine Circus
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Helen Haag - Chimps (1951)

Hamid Morton Circus
(March ?, 1951)
Helen Haag - 3 Chimps
 (Billboard 3-3-1951, pg 43,50)

Hamid Morton Circus
Police Circus
Kansas City
(March 12-18, 1951)
Helen Haag - 3 Chimps
(Billboard 3-3-1951, pg 43,50)

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Fairgrounds Coliseum, Columbus Ohio

April 2-7, 1951 (from program)
Harry Haag - Pony Drill with Bareback Riding Dogs and Monks
Miss Ruby - Dogs
Harry Haag - Baby Elephant
 

Hamid Morton 3 ring circus at Onondaga County War Memorial. Co-sponsored by the Syracuse Firemen's Association.  The quartet of trained chimpanzees presented by Helen Haag... Miss Haag's chimps show unusual talent as bicycle and motorcycle pilots plus their acrobatics gifts.  The Haag act will fly to Chicago in time for the Super Circus program tomorrow afternoon.
(The Post Standard, Syracuse NY  11-24-1951)

Harry Haag Jr. Army (11-1951  -  8-1953)
Korea, Japan

Harry Haag Jr. didn't work with Jack Joyce until after the army

Alice Haag dies (12-4-1951)

Helen was in Cuba with a circus and the manager wouldn't let her come home
for the funeral.
Nina, Alice and their father come from Macon
 (information from Grandma Ruby)

1951 - Buckles Woodcock (age 16) works with Arky Scott with elephants on Ringling show

The Greatest Show on Earth (Movie)
(Charles "Doc" Haag worked for Arky in with the elephants 1952)

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio
Harry Haag - (1952)

Tripoli Shrine Circus
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Helen Haag - Chimps (1952)

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Ohio
Harry Haag - Dog and Ponies (1952) Feb?
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby Educated Canines (1952)

2-11-1952 (for 2 weeks) from program
Orrin Davenport - Producer
Public Auditorium
Col. Harry Thomas - Equestrian Director and Announcer
Izzy Cervone - Guest Bandmaster
Processional Pageant
Dick Lewis - Comedy Table Rocks
The 4 Maxoins - Comedy Act
Albert Rix - Performing Bears
The Sensational Ortons - High Swaying Pole
The Man in the Moon
Joe Geiger, Elonias - Jugglers
Clowns
The LaBlonde Trio - Comedy Aerial Bars
Roland Tiebor - Trained Seals
The Four Quinlans, The Cycling Chaludis, Four Skating Macks
Clowns - Single Car
Cloud Swings and Loops:
Mara - Miss Grace
Corinee - Lilo
Marjorie
The Valories
Elly Ardelty - Queen of the Air
Platos, Miss Orton
Loyal Repensky Family - Bareback Riding
The Great Guistiono - Horse to Horse Somersaults
Clowns
Jim Wong Troupe - Chinese Wonders
The Fredonias - Acrobats
Tien Tsi Liu Troupe - Chinese Acrobats
Harry Haag - Dogs and Ponies
Sonny Moore and his Roustabouts
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby Educated Canines
Clowns
Webb Girls, Pinito Del Oro (from Spain) Swinging Trapeze
Manus - Trapeze
THe Antaleks - High Perch Act
Galaso - Stands on Forefinger
The Reckless Rody Brothers - Aerialists
The Bokara Troupe - Teeterboard Acrobats
Eugene Scott - Elephants
Kimris Duo - High Aerial
Liberty Horses
The Flying Artonys, The Flying Comets
The Clowns:  Felix Adler, Irving Romig, Dick Lewis, Paul Jerome, Frank Saluto,
Prince Paul, Otto Griebling, Jackie Le Claire, Jimmie Armstrong
Frank La Blonde, Charles Bell, John Nelson

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio

March 31 - April 5, 1952 (from program)
Harry Haag's Dogs and Ponies
Miss Ruby's Educated Canines
Harry Haag - Master of Transportation

San Fernando Valley Roundup
Devonshire Downs
5th Annual
(4-20-1952)
Glen Randall - Roy Rogers Liberty Horses
for Sepulveda Kiwanis Club - Underprivileged Children's Fund
 

Khartum Shrine Circus
(Winnipeg Manitoba Canada)

Orrin Davenport
Amphitheatre
Earl Wideman - Elephant Trainer
Ruby Haag, Harry Haag, Naomi - 12 dogs, Toy and Beauty (horses)
horses pedestal balancing, dancing waltz
just finished Duluth, begin Winnipeg 5-10-1952 through the 17th
children's show Saturday, 25 cents or Shrine Coupons
Winnepeg Tribunal (5-7-1952)
 

Schoonover Park
Lima Ohio
Free Big Top Entertainment
Arona Amusement Rides Presents:
Harry Haag - Performing Elephant Judy
Miss Ruby and Miss Naomi - Performing Ponies and Dogs
Thursday through Sunday
Twice Daily 2:30pm and 9:30pm
(The Lima News, Ohio 6-5-1952)

Wallace and Clark (1951-1953, 1960-1963)
Norman Anderson - owner (1951-1953)
Ethyl Jennier - Miss Aeveletta - Reedsbourg Wisconsin (6-24-1952)

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Arky Scott was on the show (1950-1954)
(Charles "Doc" Haag worked for Arky Scott) (...1952...)

The Greatest Show on Earth (Movie)
(Charles "Doc" Haag worked for Arky in with the elephants 1952)

Arky Scott was superintendent of 27 elephants (...1954...)

Damascus Shrine Circus
Rochester New York
Ruby Haag - dogs (2-1952)

Hamid Morton Circus
(2-1952)
Helen Haag - 4 Chimps
(Billboard 2-16-1952, pg48,59)

Kar? Karnak Shrine Circus
Quebec Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1952)

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Harry Haag - (1952)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1952)
 

1953  -  Buckles Woodcock works with his father and elephants (shrine shows?)

Mohammed Shrine
Peoria IL
Jack Joyce (1953)

 

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio

April 6-11, 1953 (from program)
Helen Haag - Chimps

Khartum Shrine Circus
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1953)

Midian Shrine Circus
Wichita Kansas
Helen Haag - Chimps (1953)

Harry Haag went to see Arthur Lake with Franklin Timberlake in California

Palomino Liberty Horse Act, Roy Rogers Liberty Horses in California (late 50's or early 60's)
Originally owned by Roy Rogers (...1952...1955...1958...)
Glen Randall worked the horses (...1952...)
(Harry Haag Jr. - worked the horses under Glen Randall) (?)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Ruby Haag - dogs (1954?) Feb?
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs (1954?)
Naomi Haag - Dogs and Ponies (1954?)
Harry Haag - Transportation Director (  ?  )

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio

Jack Joyce (1954) Feb?

Osman Shrine Circus
St. Paul Minnesota

March 8-14, 1954
Helen Haag - Chimps
Ruby Haag - dogs, ponies (1954)

Harry starts working with Jack Joyce in St. Paul (1954?)

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio

March 29 - April 3, 1954 (from program)
Harry Haag - Master of Transportation
Helen Haag's Chimps
Jack Joyce?

Tom Packs Circus
6-1954
 season starts 6-7-1954 (8 week season)
Helen Haag - Chimps
Jack Joyce Camels
(Billboard 6-5-1954, pg66,67)


Osman Shrine Circus
St. Paul Minnesota
Helen Haag - Chimps (1954)
Ruby Haag - dogs, ponies (1954)

St. Louis Police Circus
(May -9,1954)
Jack Joyce Camels
(billboard 5-15-1954, pg39,42)

Tangier Shrine Circus
Omaha NE
Jack Joyce (1954)

Osiris Shrine,
Wheeling W. Vir
Jack Joyce (1954)

Hadi Shrine
Evansville, IN
Jack Joyce (1954)

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Jack Joyce (1954)

Jack Joyce's Dancing Camels
Toast of the Town
(8-29-1954  -  Toast of the Town-Ed Sullivan, guest host Eddie Fisher)
(episode 323)
Scheduled:
--Eddie Fisher (guest host)
--The American Legion's Jackson Zouaves drill team
--Joyce's Camel
--singing contest winners

Helen Haag's Chimpanzees (...1950-1966...)
Ed Sullivan (...?...)

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio

January 31 - February 13, 1955
Miss Ruby's Dogs
Helen Haag's Chimps
(told the acts are in program)

JungleLand (1956-1968)
in Thousand Oaks California
Goebel's Lion Farm (bought 1926, opened to public 1929)
1946 - sold to James Ruman and Sid Rogel, World Jungle Compound
1-23-1950 Mabel Stark clawed by Pasha the tiger
(Ed Trees, Tony Anthony and Hank Cragi witnessed the attack)
1956 - sold to 20th Century Fox, Jungleland
1961 - back to Goebel, Jungleland
Heinz and Ruhe operate Jungleland
Mr Ed the talking horse and the MGM lion lived there
Bimbo the elephant, Bobo the chimpanzee, Sultan the tiger, Nuba the lion
giraffes, lions, elephants, zebras, water buffalo
Mabel Stark - world's only lady tiger trainer (worked there 1938-1968)
Films there: Birth of a Nation, Tarzan, the Adventures of Robin Hood

(1950's, ...1955,1956...)
Harry Haag trained the big cats (worked with Mable Stark)
worked with Arky Scott's wife, Toni
Harry Haag Jr. works for Melvin Koontz
worked with Jack Joyce - Jack left to go with Polack Bros. Circus
Melvin Koonts (worked 1946-1964)
(11-1966  - lion mauls Jayne Mansfield's 6 year old son, Zoltan)

Ringling Bros and BB last Big Top, Irvin Feld changes it to arenas  (1956)

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
(1955-56) TV series
Harry Haag Jr. trains lions and tigers for Melvin Koontz
World Jungle Compound

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1955) April?
Jack Joyce (1955)
Harry Haag (1955)

Edmonton Shrine Circus Club
Edmonton Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1955)
Jack Joyce (1955)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Helen Haag - Chimps (1955)
Ruby Haag - dogs (1955)
Jack Joyce - (1955)

Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio

April 11-16,1955 (from program)
Harry Haag - Master of Transportation
Jack Joyce - Camels
Miss Ruby's Canines
Helen Haag's Chimps

Houston Shrine Circus
Jack Joyce - (1955)

Ft. Worth Shrine Circus
Jack Joyce - (1955)

Super Circus
Chicago
Jack Joyce - (1955)

San Antonio's Championship Rodeo
Antonio's Coliseum
(June 18-21, 1955)
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Trigger
Rogers Liberty Horses
(Kerrville Times, Texas 5-20-1955)

Edmonton Shrine Club (from program)
(Edmonton Canada) (June 1-4, 1955)
Produced by Orrin Davenport
Jack Joyce - Trained Camels, Equestrian Director and Announcer
Helen Haag - Chimpanzees
Miller-Woodcock Elephants

Ida County Fair
Miss Ruby's Dog's and Ponies (8-1955)

The fair opens Sunday Aug 14 and runs four days through the 17th
The Barons, a "boy meets girl" idea in a humorous vein
The Launer Twins - Feminine Acrobatic Contortionism
The Noble Trio - Two Men and a Girl Parallel Gymnasts
Miss Ruby's Dogs and Ponies
Wimpey the Clown
(Ida County Pioneer Record, Iowa 8-4-1955)

Royal Dunbar Circus (?1950's,1952?, 1953? 1955?)
(flew to Caracas Venezuela, Ruby)
(animals by boat)
Ruby Haag, Harry Haag Sr., Charles Haag (Doc), Naomi, Stanley Childers (neighbor)
Judy Elephant, Ponies, Dogs (stayed 6 months to 1 year) (Judy sold to Dunbar Circus, gotten mean)
came over from Tampa Fl
Columbia South America
Owner from Columbia

on photo (bogota 30-7-1953)
Direcionen Espana: Melendez Valdes 39 Madrid
Direcion en America: Royal Dunbar Circus

Wallenda's troupe (1955)
earthquake in Nicaragua

Luis Baltazar Conde (cuban) (1950's, 1960's)
acrobat and performer
Dunbar toured Cuba, Columbia, Latin American Countries
worked with Andres Brunet (or real last name Perez) duo of telepathy
sold postcards after show

Josefina "Nena" Conde or Perez
telepathy
sold postcards after show

Venezuela (11-17-1958)
Caracas (downtown)
from the Daily Journal Newspaper
photo - Cuidado Senor at Plaza de Nuevo Circo
Daniel Brothers and Guerreros - High Wire
Nubia - Works with Elephant
Clowns
Los Guerreros - High Wire Bicycle Act
Judy the Elephant - Ballet

Doc marries Ernestina from Ecuador, met on Royal Dunbar Circus (1955?)
Ernestina had a baboon act

Several Tarzan like movies - starring Victor Mature
(1956 - Safari)
Harry Haag trains lions and tigers ($17.50 per hour)
for Melvin Koontz at World Jungle Compound
Melvin Koontz worked for Trader Horne and Billy Richards

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1956) Feb?

Khartum Temple Shrine Circus (from program)
(Winnipeg Manitoba Canada)
Winnipeg's new arena (May 5-12, 1956)
3 ring circus
Orrin Davenport - Staged and Produced
Col. Harry Thomas - Equestrian Director and Announcer
Merle Evans - Band Director
Charles Marine - Master of Properties
Harry Haag - Master of Transportation
Dorothy Kohler - Wardrobe Department

Tournament
Les Bons - Roman Ladders
The Roberts - Casting Act
Zoppe Family - Unsupported Ladders
Earl Shipley - Clowns
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs and Ponies
Cimse's Scottish Collies
Kinko and his midget car - Clowns
The Ortons - Swing and Sway the Orton Way
Klauser's Bears with Goldilocks
Jackie Le Claire - Clowns
Sils Sisters - Aerial Novelty
Sikorska Duo - Aerial Sensation
Dorrie Orton - Trapeze
John Toy - Clowns
Roland Tiebor's Educated Seals
Dorita Konyot - Dressage Horse
Johnson and Owens - Horizontal Bars
Lola Dobritch - on the Silver Thread
The Noble Trio - Parallel Bars
Bruno - Breakaway Pole
Unus - Stands on one finger
The Deislers - Flying Trapeze
Melitta and Wicons - High Perch Act
Bokara Troupe - Teeterboard Acrobats
Blinko Burch - Clowns
Zavata Family - Comedy Riding Act
Miller Woodcock Elephants - William Woodcock
Clowns - Walkaround
The Kimris Duo - Saber Jet Plane Sensation

Ruby's Dogs - a group of twenty dogs of all kinds and ponies, directed by Ruby and her daughter Naomi,
just back from South America. Pole Climbing, front and back somersaults, rope balancing and all the tricks that can be done by Dogs and Ponies.

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Harry Haag - (1956)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1956)

Midian Shrine Circus
Wichita, Kansas
Ruby Haag - dogs (1956)
Harry Haag - (1956)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1956)

Osman Shrine Circus
St Paul MN
Ruby Haag - dogs, ponies (1956)

Antioch Shrine Circus
Dayton Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1956)

Ziyara Shrine Circus
Utica New York
Helen Haag - Chimps (1956)

Zuhrah Shrine Circus
Minneapolis
Jack Joyce - Camels, llamas, zebra, pony (animals?) (1956)

Polack Bros (1931-1976)(1932-1976?)
Irving Polack and Sam Stern - owners
Harry Haag Jr. (prop man) (1956?)

Harry Haag Jr. left Jungle Land to work for Polack Bros. Circus (1956?)

Cheryl Pullium Haag born 1957

1957 - Arthur Lake (Silverlake) played Dagwood on Blondie TV series (short lived)
 

Eastern Star 1st Annual Circus (from program 1-5-1957)
DeSoto Chapter 201 in Riverview Fl
Ruskin Fl Amphitheatre
Ruskin Fl, Riverview Fl
Ruby Haag - Ruby's Dogs, cook

Wimauma High School Band under the direction of Merle Evans
Merle Evans and his Circus Band - National Anthem
Dime Wilson  -  Table Rock
Roman - Baby Elephant
Naomi, Penny (Wilson), Trudy (Wilson)  -  Rolling Globe
Roland Tiebor  -  Seals
Jane Merideth  -  Novelty Rings and Traps
George and Vicki Hanneford  -  Perch
Clowns  -  Clown Alley
Helen Haag - Chimps
Kay Francis  -  Principle Riding Acts
Clowns  -  Clown Alley
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs, ***Note, also cook
Arturo presents  -  The Dreslers
Intermission
Crowing of Miss Rainbow
Klausers - Roller Skating Bears
Clowns
Cycling Sydneys - Unicycle Act
Hip Raymond - Comedy Car
La Norma - Aerial Trapeze
Hugo Schmidt - Mixed group of Animals
Special Announcement
Bokara Troupe - Teeterboard
Deislers - Flying Act

Al Sirat Grotto Circus (1931 - 1958...1971...1975...)
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957) Feb?

Osman Shrine Circus
St. Paul Minnesota
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957)

Arabia Shrine Circus
Houston Texas
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957)

Tom Packs
(6-12-1957) Mt Vernon Illinois
(6-14-1957) Terre Haute Indiana
(July 11-14, 1957) Wichita Kansas - University Stadium
(July 25-27-1957) Pittsburgh Police Circus - Forbes Field
Haag's Dogs and Ponies
Jack Joyce's Exotic Animals
(Billboard 6-17-1957, pg84)

Khartum Shrine Circus
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957)

Doc in Army Korea (...?...)
Doc in Navy Japan (...1957-1958...)
Doc in Viet Nam
Doc retires from service

Edmonton Shrine Circus Club
Edmonton Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957) June?

Elf Khurafeh Shrine Circus
Saginaw Michigan
Helen Haag - Chimps (1957)

(Anr?) Ansar Temple Shrine Circus
Springfield Illinois
Harry Haag - (1957)

Naomi - globe
Helen Haag - chimps

Tom Packs (1937-1958...)
Thomas N. Packs - owner
(late 1940's - a leader in the indoor shows)
Opens a second unit
(1950's grew in stature)

Naomi wrecked truck going to Tom Packs
Harry Haag (summer circus, ballparks, St Louis) (?)
(Bellview Ill, winter quarters)

Ruby Haag - dogs and ponies (6-17-1957)

Polack Bros (1931-1976)(1932-1976?)
Irving Polack and Sam Stern - owners
Harry Haag Jr. (prop man) (...1957...)
Harry Haag Jr. Toledo Ohio (10-26-1957)

Tripoli Shrine Circus
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Jack Joyce (1957)

Kar? Karnak Shrine Circus
Montreal Albert Vedbel
Jack Joyce -  (1957?)

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Jack Joyce - (1957?)

Topeka Shrine Circus
Jack Joyce - (1957?)

Polack Bros (1931-1976)(1932-1976?)
Irving Polack and Sam Stern - owners
Harry Haag Jr. (prop man) (1956?...1957...)

(10-26-1957)
Harry Haag Jr. Toledo Ohio

Polack switched from carnivals to  winter shows
for American Legion, Chambers of Commerce, Service Clubs or Lodges
(late 1940's - a leader in the indoor shows)
(1950's grew in stature)

1950's  -  Jack Joyce on Polack Bros with Camels

Harry Haag Sr. died (11-12-1957) (56 years old)
Columbus Ind. at Bartholomew County Hospital
been ill 6 days
Transportation Superintendent for Orrin Davenport shows
Named after Harry "Shorty" Rhodes who was with Mighty Haag from the start
Member of Medora Lodge 324, F & A.M., Scottish Rite, Shrine
Funeral at Brownstown Indiana, Hague Funeral Home - Medora
Rev. Orrin Thayer, Pastor of Vallonia Methodist Church
Buried in Brownstown Fairview Cemetery
(expected to be with Davenport Shrine dates)
(family home in Medora)
(Ruby and Naomi of Medora Ind. to carry on dog and pony act)
Survivors include: widow Ruby Haag, daughter Naomi Ruth Haag, two sons, Charles Ernest and Harry Jr.
sister Helen Haag Hayes in Gibston Fl with chimps, uncle Harley Hubbard formerly with Mighty Haag - now in Shreveport
Charles Ernest Haag with the Navy, Harry Jr. with Polack Bros.

11-12-1957  Harry Haag Sr. dies (56 years old)
Obituary in Billboard 11-18-1957 issue

Harry Haag, 56, circus performer and trainer, died at a hospital in Columbus Indiana on November 12th. He had been ailing for some time, but had expected to be with the Davenport Shrine dates.

Funeral services were at Brownstown, Indiana, near the family home at Medora, Indiana on November 15th.

Haag was the son of Ernest Haag, who had the Mighty Haag Circus, and he was named for Harry "Shorty" Rhodes, who was with that show from its start. Growing up on the circus, Haag stepped into many jobs with it and spent most of his time there until the 1930's.

After the Haag show closed, he worked the Haag elephants at fairs, parks, Shrine shows and other circuses. Twice he operated his own winter shows. A few seasons ago he went to South America for the Circus Royal Dumbar. Selling his remaining elephant there, Haag came back to the U.S. to concentrate on dog and pony acts, which his wife and daughter worked. He was with Orrin Davenport about 17 years as a performer and superintendent of transportation.

Surviving are his widow, Ruby, and a daughter, Naomi, both of Medora, and who continue the dog and pony act; two sons, Charles, who is in the navy; and Harry Jr., who has been with Polack Bros. Circus; an uncle, Harley Hubbard, formerly with the Haag Show and now in Shreveport Louisiana, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Haag Hayes, who has Haag Chimpanzees.

Tom Packs (1937-1958...)
Thomas N. Packs - owner

Ruby and Harry Haag (5-26-58)
dogs and ponies

June 11-14, 1958
Ruby Haag - Dog and Pony Revue
(Billboard 5-26-1958, pg60,61)

7-1958  -  Naomi, Ruby Haag -  St. Louis
(Naomi - tire blow-out on the truck)
Naomi wrecked truck going to Tom Packs

RCA Christmas Program (12-16-1957)
Bruce Stevens - Musical Clown and Master of Ceremonies
Dolinoffs and Raya Sisters - dance act
Ruby Haag - Ruby and Her Pets
The Three Redheads - Dance Act
The Original Gutis - European Comedy Tumbling Act
The Juggling Jacksons
Billy Lang and His Orchestra of Cleveland Entertainment Society

Merry Andrew (Movie)
(Harry Haag a Double in Lion Cage 1958)
Lion from World Jungle Compound
Harry was just visiting

_________________?______________
7-1958  -  Naomi, Ruby Haag -  St. Louis
(Naomi - tire blow-out on the truck)

Antioch Shrine Circus
Dayton Ohio)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1958)

Al Shamal Shrine Circus
Edmonton Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1958)

Tripoli Shrine Circus
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Jack Joyce (1958)

Rudy Bros

1958
Ball parks, fair grounds, rodeo grounds, indoor
Don Rey - Music
Rudy Jacobi - Equestrian Director, show booker
Woodcock Elephants
Helen Haag - Chimps
(white tops July/August 1958 pg 27)

Damascus Shrine Circus
Webster New York
Helen Haag - Chimps (1958) Feb or Dec?

___________?__________
Ruby and Harry (Jr.?) (5-26-58)
dogs and ponies

Rudy Bros Circus (1950-1976, 1988-1993)
owned by Rudy Jacobi
Harry Haag (?) California, Nevada (outdoor ballparks)
Helen Haag - chimps (1958)

Tom Packs (1937-1958...)
Thomas N. Packs - owner
(12-20-1957  -  1-12-1958) (12-1958 - 1-1959)
 Havana Cuba dates
Harry Haag - Cuba 1-1959 (4 week engagement)

Jack Joyce on Tom Packs

According to Tom Packs' obituary in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, October 23, 1964,
 "The circus was in the middle of a four-week engagement in Havana when it was suddenly canceled by Fidel Castro's revolution on Jan. 1, 1959. The circus company was restricted to its hotel for four days without food before it was able to fly back to this country

Castro rode in a tank on a low boy
(per Harry Haag Jr.)

Antioch Shrine Circus
Dayton Ohio)
Jack Joyce (1959)

Zuhrah Shrine Circus
Minneapolis
Jack Joyce - (1959)

Fontaine Ferry park in Louisville Ky
from The Louisville Times (6-10-1959)
Haag's Panoramic Dog and Pony Circus (6-1959)
Ruby Haag and Naomi
12 dogs, 2 Shetland ponies
Curly and Fatima the dogs
Leba the Chihuahua
Ruby started working with dogs at age of 9

Sarah Mann Fisher dies (12-30-59)

Unknown Dates

Elf Khurafeh Shrine Circus (?) 
(Saginaw Michigan)
Harry Haag Sr.
Ruby Haag - Miss Ruby's Dogs
Judy the elephant

Schoonover Park
Lima Ohio
Harry Haag - Performing Elephant Judy
Miss Ruby and Miss Naomi - Performing Ponies and Dogs

 St. Louis Police Circus
Ruby Haag
Jack Joyce

Tangier Shrine, Omaha NE
Ruby Haag

Osiris Shrine, Wheeling W. Vir
Ruby Haag

Hadi Shrine, Evansville, IN
Ruby Haag

 Al Shamal Shrine Circus Edmonton Canada
Ruby Haag

Arabia Shrine, Houston Texas
Ruby Haag

Super Circus, Chicago
Ruby Haag

Antioch Shine, Dayton OH
Ruby Haag

Ringling Bros. Circus
Ruby Haag, Harry Haag Jr., Naomi

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Helen Haag - Chimps (1960)
Jack Joyce - 1960

St. Louis Police Circus
Jack Joyce (1960)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Jack Joyce (1960)

Damascus Shrine Circus
Webster New York
Jack Joyce (1960)

Adam and Sells Circus (1960-1961)
from program (4-1960  -  8-1960)
Owned by Adams Bros. Inc.
William Adams Griffith Jr. - Manager
Vera Himes - Contracting Agent
Berni Miller, Joe Murray, Frank Franz, Bill Long - Promotional Directors
Jimmy Ray - Press, Radio, TV
Raymond Duke - Bill Crew Mgr.
Bill Hill - Supt. of Canvas
J.R. "Kilowatt" Miller - Electrical Dept
Eddie Santiago - Mechanical Dept
DIck Johnson - Snake Show
Don Gillette - Pony Ride
Cecil Eddington - Cook House
Bob Green - Musical Director
Allan Hill - Kid Pusher
Robert "Smokey" Jones - Cotton Candy
Kenny McConnell, Bill Hill, Jr. - Popcorn
Jack Bennett - Sno Cones
Bob Stein - Novelties
AL Dennis - Grease Joint
Mike Walden - No. 1 Stand
Deadup Adkisson, Gaylord Maynard - Seats

Stars on Parade
Don Gillette - Goat Act
Billie Sheets - Bears and Goats
Tommy Whiteside and Jimmy O'Donell - Atomic Hair Grower
Baby Bertha - Plank Walk and Hand Stand
Dick Johnson - Fun with Chairs
Sonny Burdette - Slack Wire
Clowns - Moon Rocket
Ruby Haag, Rosy Mcconnell - Swinging Ladders
3 ring display of Juggling
Ricardo, Eddie and Inez, Dot and Sonny, Ruby Haag - Spanish Web
Clown Balloon Gag
Ruby and Naomi Haag - Canine Follies
Dick Johnson, Eddie Santiago - Roly Boly
Dot Burdette - Oriental Foot Juggling
Clowns - Dog Pad Act
Riding Santiagos
Naomi Haag, Dot Burdette - Rolling Globe
Baby Bertha - presented by Billie Sheets


Ruby Haag - swinging ladders, Spanish web, dogs (1960)
Naomi - globe, dogs (1960)

An agreement was reported tonight to have united two of the nation's largest circuses - Cristiani Brothers and Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey. Under terms of the agreement, according to the Sarasota Herald Tribune, Ringling will follow a North American schedule while Cristiani will use some Ringling equipment and tour parts of South America. "We are very much pleased," said Ernesto (Poppa) Cristiani, 80 year old patriarch of the family which performed with the Ringling show for many years before going out on its own. Daviso Cristiani, second in command to Poppa, negotiated the agreement with John Ringling North, president of Ringling Bros, and Art Concello, vice president and general manager. The Herald Tribune said Cristiani has about 500 artists and workingmen and the Ringling show will provide new costumes and other assistance. Ringling has operated in auditoriums and arenas since 1956 while Cristiani is one of the largest circuses still under canvas. Both circuses will retain their identities, the newspaper said.
(The Oakland Tribune, California 1-8-1961)

Ringling Bros. Circus (2-15-1961  -  5-28-1961)
Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus International
(animals and workers by boat to Rio, Ruby)
(most people flew to Rio)
marti gras celebration at that time
Ruby Haag, Naomi - Ponies, Dogs
Ringling had 3 elephants, Eloise Berchtold had 1 elephant
Diano had 6 elephants and the Oscar Cristiani had 5 elephants
Oscar's lead elephant, Christy, died and was buried at sea
Eloise Berchtold with Lions on Boat, later killed by elephant on Ringlings
Oscar Cristiani  - Elephant buried at sea

Paul Eagles - agent and general manager
Lloyd Morgan - superintendent
Raymond Escorsia - bandmaster
Justino Loyal - equestrian director
Audrey Smith - aerial display
(most of the acts, 120 people hired in the US)
(spec girls and workmen, 100 people hired in South America)
 1-30-1960  -  Freighter left Jacksonville Fl (animals, equipment, and 16 men)
2-12-1960  -  Freighter arrived at Rio de Janeiro
2-11-1960  -  Chartered Constellation from Tampa to Rio (most of the people)
2-15-1961  -  show opened in Rio

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2-15-1961  -  3-12-1961
the arena held 18,500 people
shows at 2:30 and 9pm on weekdays
10am 2:30pm and 9pm on weekends
rained out the last show

14 elephants
plus 1 elephant for Eloise Berchtold from the Paul Kelley Farm

Sao Paulo, Brazil  -  3-14-1961  -  4-8-1961

railroad to Santos, Brazil

boat to Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires  -  4-14-1961  -  5-28-1961
(building seated 12,830)
shows at 2pm and 10pm on weekdays
10am 2pm and 10pm on weekends

Eloise Berchtold - worked the Paul Kelly lions
Clowns:  Kinko, Jackie LeClaire, Billy McCabe, Kenneth Dobb, Lou Mirando
Manuel Baragon - Cloud Swing
Belmontes - Trampoline
Ibarra Brothers - aerial bars
Antoinette, Corky and Gilda Cristiani - Riding Act
Frank Regan, Oscar Cristiani, Al Kyle - Elephants
Deliah Cristiani, Lianne Stanek, 20 other girls - Aerial Ballet
The Rudas - Australian Acrobatic Troupe
Ruby Haag's Dogs and Ponies
Konyot's Chimpanzees
Zoppe's Riding Dogs
Leigh - Aerial Loop
Unus
Fairland Fantasy (Spec)
Ibarra Flying Act
Clowns - Kinko and his minature automobile
Draguett and his magic hat
Remo Loyal, Antoinette Cristiani, Lolita Perez - tight wire
Ferry Forst - illusionist
Dieter Tasso - slack wire
9 Cristiani family - riding act
Freddia and Ortans - rola rola
Lentini Canistrelli Sisters - ladders
Manuel Baragon - tables
Bill Burschbom's 9 liberty horses
Cristiani's teeterboard
Stanek's teeterboard
Daviso - high school horses
Finale - Americana
Hugh Zacchini - missile cannon

5-31-1961  -  the performers boarded a chartered Boeing 707 for Tampa Fl

Kim Pullium Haag born 1961

JFK elected (1961-1963)

Wallendas fall at State Fair Coliseum in Detroit (1-30-1962)
Moslem Temple Shrine Circus
7 man pyramid
Harry Haag was there

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Al Shamal Shrine Circus
Edmonton Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Osman Shrine Circus
St. Paul Minnesota
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Antioch Shrine Circus
Dayton Ohio)
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Kora Shrine Circus
Lewiston Maine
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Ararat Shrine Circus
Kansas City Missouri
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Moslem Shrine Circus
Detroit Michigan
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Al Shamal Shrine Circus
Edmonton Canada
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Osman Shrine Circus
St. Paul Minnesota
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Antioch Shrine Circus
Dayton Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Kora Shrine Circus
Lewiston Maine
Helen Haag - Chimps (1961)

Command Performance for the Kennedy's (1962?)
Jacqueline, Caroline, John ...
Washington D.C. (Ice House)
Harry Haag Jr. (Jack Joyce Liberty Horse Act)
Jack Joyce

The Circus Hall of Fame
(Sarasota Florida)
Pat Eagon works as Puppeteer and on refreshments
(1962,1963...)

Kentucky Co-op Annual Meeting
Ruby's Dogs (1962)
Florine Oler
The Miamians - Balancing

Osman Temple Circus (from program)
Saint Paul Auditorium (March 5-11, 1962)
Parade of Stars
Prince El Kigordo  -  Wild Animal Trainer
African Lions, Himalayan Bears, Royal Bengal Tigers and South American Pumas
Miss Rietta - High Sway Pole Act
Dick Lewis - Table Rocks
Clown Frolics
Portis Sims - Trained Ponies
Clowns Convention - Happy Kellems
Haslev's, Kelroy's, The Eddy's - Tramoline
Clowns - Carl Marx
Ruby Haag  -  Miss Ruby's Canines
Joe Hodgini's - Aristocratic Canine Review
Portis Dogs
Les Blue and Yvette - Juggling on Unicycle
Astrid - Hand Balancing
Walter Shyretto - Juggling on Unicycle
Clowns - Jimmy Davison
Hubert Castle - King of the Wire
Pinnacle in Haute E'cole - Masters of Horsemanship
Friedel's Paster - Imperial Lipizzan
Claudeen Gracien - Aerial
Astride - Faye Snyder - Aerial
Platos - Aerial
Ethel Jennier, Jo-Ann Corinne, Brenda Brysch - Aerial
Intermission
Albert Rix - Trained Bears
Clowns - Sherman Bros.
The Freddies - Teeterboard Acrobats
The Ussins - Whip Cracking
Helen Haag - Chimps riding Motocycles
Ethel Jennier - Trained Seals
Antonucci's Chimpanzees
Kristensen and Ussin Riding Act
Bert Pettus - Elephants
Clowns Walk Around
Zacchini's - Flying Trapeze
Bruno - High Pole Act

Elf Khurafeh Shrine Circus 7th Annual (?) 
(Saginaw Michigan)
From Saginaw News - Newspaper
for a week
Unus - Balance
Mlle. Musetta - Trapeze
Clowns:
Felix Adler, Paul Jerome, Otto Gribling, Irving Romig, Lewis Nagy and Albert White
The Gutis - Gorilla Suits
The Three Realles - Trio of Foot Juggling
The Three Margas Sisters - Aerialists
Franklin and Astrid - Balancing
Martels - Balancing on a short plank on a cylinder
Freddy Troupe - Teeter Board
The Haslevs - Trampoline
George and Kay and Franklin and Astrid
Albert Rix - 11 Bears
Harry Haag - Judy the Elephant, plays Mouth Organ
Ruby Haag- Miss Ruby's Dogs, wire walkers, tumblers, a poodle that jumps barriers, pole climbing
George Hanneford Family - Bareback Riding
Francis Hogan - 2 Seals
C. Harry Thomas - Master of Ceremonies
Izzy Cervone - Music Director
Elf Khurfeh Shrine Band
Russell B. Thilton - Potentate
Lyman J Goes - Chairman of the Shrine Circus Committee
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Waltrip - Arrangements Supervised
300 newspaper boys were guests of the Saginaw News

Jaffa Shrine Circus
Hamid-Morton Circus
Altoona (May 7-12, 1962)
23rd annual circus
Jack Joyce - Liberty Horses
(The Progress, Clearfield Penn 4-26-1962)

Sells Bros Circus
1962 - Chicago Dates
Janice Silverlake and Chiki Noble - Dogs
Ruby and Naomi Haag

An article in the March 31, 1962 edition of Amusement Business listed the following staff members for Sells Brothers at the beginning of the season: "Little Bob" Stevens, General Manager; Bill Griffith, General Agent; Ray Duke and Vera Himes, Contracting Agents; Billy Sheets, Bill Crew Manager; Harry Adams and Bob Williams, bill posters; Mavis Johnson, Office Manager; Dick Johnson, pit shows; Clara Stevens, Concessions Checker; Ted Wilson, side show, Doc Phillips, novelties; Frank Silverlake, Mechanic; Earl Tillman, Canvas Superintendent; Bill Dodson, Assistant Canvas Superintendent; Dave Boyd, Electrician; and Eddie Griffith, props.

The same article noted that the show would open the season with the following program of displays:

1 - Spec (walk-around).
2 - Janice Silverlake and Chiki Noble - dogs.
3 - Clowns - Jeff and Peggy Murphree.
4 - Dorene Morris - riding mechanic.
5 - Clowns - firecrackers.
6 - Louie McNeece and elephant "Dyna".
7 - Mavis Johnson and Janice Silverlake - swinging ladders.
8 - Chip Morris on dancing quarter-horse "Tequilla."
9 - Woodcock's barbershop elephants - worked by Buckles and Barbara Woodcock.
10 - Concert announcement.
11 - Don Gillette's trained goats.
12 - Clowns - long shirt.
13 - Liberty Horses (4) - trained by Chip Morris.
14 - Sells Brothers Elephants (3) presented by Captain Don Lee.
15 - Louie McNeece and "Liberace" - the piano playing chimp.
16 - Second concert announcement.
17 - Spanish Web - presented by Mavis Johnson.
18 - Clowns - camera.
19 - Woodcock's elephants - featuring Barbara Ann.

When the show played Davis, Arkansas in May, Morris Horn - who had been with Carson and Barnes - joined the show with his knife-throwing act. Ruby and Naomi Haag, Smokey Jones and his Bears, and the Great Jackson and his blindfolded motor scooter act trouped with the show for the Chicago area dates. And later in the season, Junior Brown replaced the Woodcocks as the "Bull" Man. Brown worked the three animals leased from Suesz.
                                              Bandwagon, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1974, pp. 11-16

Two Rivers Snow Festival
Miss Ruby's Dogs and Ponies (6-1962)

Snow Festival Feature, A treat for the young people at the Wednesday evening show at Walsh Field, Tow Rivers, in the 19