Jack Joyce Animal Trainer (Two Generations)

John Edward (Jack) Joyce (1876-1934)

10 years with Col. Cody on Buffalo Bills Wild West

1896 - Assistant in the Cody and Salisbury Horse Department

Bronco Rider

With Will Rogers in Roping and Riding Act in NY Theater

Went to Europe instead of making movies by flipping a coin

1900 - married Grace Gaylord

daughter Evelyn

1906 - wife Grace Gaylord died

1908 - married Viola Carey

three children - John (Jack), Violet, Maude

1909 - Circus Busch in Germany, horse rider

Denmark

1911 - Circus Busch, Wild West Drama

1912 - Jack Joyce Wild West Show, London, Berlin

1916 - Sweden

1925 - Back to US with 9 thoroughbreds

New York

1925 - 10 horses for sale or for booking, NY

1928 - brief trip to Europe

Stables in Albany, NY

1932 - Retired

6-16-34 Died in Albany NY

1934 Evelyn Joyce - Horse Woman on Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey

1934 - Evelyn Retired from Circus

 

 

John James (Jack) Joyce (1910-1978)

1910 - Born in Austria (Jack Joyce American Wild West Show)

Boarding School in London, Berlin

1920 - Handled act of his own

Late 1920's - Vaudeville with family horse act

1929 - Liberty Horse Trainer on Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
under Jorgen Christiansen

1930-1931 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Liberty Horses at Madison Square Gardens and on the road

1934, 35, 37 - Hagenbeck Wallace

1936 - Cole Bros - Clyde Beatty Circus (from program)

John Joyce - riding dogs, monkey equestrians, bucking mules
educated Shetland ponies

James Foster, John Joyce, John Smith - Liberty Horse Act in three rings

High jumping horses, real thoroughbreds - Riders:
Jack Joyce, Georgia Sweet, Anna Butler, Jessie Goodenough, Ralph Clarke, Paul Nelson

Clowns:  Otto Greibling, Emmet Kelly etc.

1937 - Cole Bros Circus (from program)
with Clyde Beatty and Ken Maynard
John Joyce - superbly trained animals

3 ring liberty act
James Foster, Jorgensen M Christiansen, Jack Joyce

High Jumping Horses
Riders:  Miss Georgia Sweet, Miss Anna Butler, Miss Jessie Goodenough,
Ralph Clarke, John O'Brien, Jack Joyce

Clowns:  Emmet Kelly, Otto Greibling, etc

1938 - Al G. Barnes - Sells - Floto Combined Circus

1938 Florian (movie)

1939 - Emperor's Stallions (movie)

1940 - All  American Circus (Honolulu)

1941 - Jack Joyce's Trained Animal Circus

Jack Joyce's Wild Animal Show and Indoor Circus

1943 - Russell Bros Circus

1946, 47 - Pony Drills, Zuhrah Shrine Show

Army

1948 - Australia

1950
Jack rounds up 20 camels in Australia
back to USA with camels

1950's  -  Camel Act on Polack Bros

Dec. 1950 - 10 camels with 20th century Fox, Arizona

1951 - David and Bathsheba Movie, Fox Studios
Jack provides the camels

1950's - provided camels, elephants and other animals
for Tarzan movies

1951 - Indiana

1951-1960 Shriner's Circus, Four Haughty Ladies from the Sahara Desert

Al Sirat Grotto
Cleveland OH
Jack Joyce (1951) Feb?


Kosair Shrine Circus
Louisville KY
Jack Joyce (1951)

Polack Bros
Nile Shrine Circus

Sept 5th-11th, 1951
Polack Bros (from program)
Nile Shrine
- Civic Ice Arena - Seattle, Washington
Joyce's Trained Camels:
(Ausie, Sydney, Cougee, and Tiny)

Polack Bros
Alzafar Shrine Circus
Oct 15-21, 1951 (from program on internet)
San Antonio, Texas
8th Annual
Gene Randow, Clown; Ibarra Brothers, Apogee of Bar Acrobatics; Harry Dann & the Duchess, Sherman Bros, and Lucky; Arwoods’ Acro K-9 Antics; Don Dorsey High Trapeze Intrepidity; Twelve Twirling Tumblers; Joyce’s Trained Camels; more clowns; Sing Lee Sings; Sikorskas; Francis Brunn, Juggling Genius; Pack’s Baby Elephants; Natal, Monkey Business; Ostermaier’s Horses; Mandos Sisters; Goldilocks & the 3 Bears; Melitta & Wicons; Count Ernesto; Armand’s Seals; The Goetschis; 9 Ward-Bell Flyers; etc

Jack Joyce - Trained Camels


Polack Bros (from program)
India Temple
- 8th Annual

Nov 7th-10th, 1951
Joyce's Trained Camels:
(Ausie, Sydney, Cougee, and Tiny)


Polack Bros (from program)
Medinah Shrine Circus - 10th Annual

Feb 29th - March 16th, 1952
Managing Directors - Louis Stern, Bessie E. Polack
Joyce's Performing Camels
dromedary camels
single-hump from Arabia and Northern Africa
4 from the 20 Jack rounded up in Australia
Tiny the camel (photo)

Kerak Shrine Circus
Nevada

August 6-9, 1952 (from program)
Jack Joyce - Performing Camels

Mohammed Shrine
Peoria IL
Jack Joyce (1953)

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

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)

Al Sirat Grotto
Cleveland OH
Jack Joyce (1954) Feb?


Aladdin Shrine Circus
Columbus Ohio
Helen Haag - Chimps (1954) April?
Jack Joyce (1954)
Harry Haag (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)

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

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

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)

Houston Shrine Circus
Jack Joyce - (1955)

Ft. Worth Shrine Circus
Jack Joyce - (1955)

Super Circus
Chicago
Jack Joyce - (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

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

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
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
Harry Haag trained the big cats (worked with
Mable Stark) - 1950's
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)

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)

 

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?)

Tripoli Shrine Circus
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Jack Joyce (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)

 St. Louis Police Circus
Ruby Haag
Jack Joyce


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)

Jack Joyce's Jungle Caravan
Sept 6-10, 1960
County Fair Shopping Center
(recently featured on Ed Sullivan)
African Donkey, Monkeys, Llamas, Zebras, Camels, Goats
Camel train rides
Pony rides
(Times Recorder, Zanesville Ohio, 9-4-1960)

1961  -  Jack Joyce  -  Animal Actors
Ringling Bros (from program)

1961 - Camel Act leased to Ringling
Liberty Act on Tom Packs Circus

 

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

Pittsburgh Police Circus
Thomas N. Packs - director
Helen Haag's Comedy Chimps (August 3,4-1962)
The Great Wallendas - High Wire
Chet Juszyk - Lions
Jack Joyce - Ponies
Rietta - Girl in the Clouds
The Flying Zacchinis
Bertini Family
Kristensen Ussin Troupe - Bare Back Riders
Simru Duo - Aerialists
Police Circus Elephants - Bert and Sandra Pettus
Aerial Ballet
Zoppe and His Pets
Clowns - Dick Lewis
William Pruyn - Band Leader
Dick Ware - Announcer
(Valley Independent, Monessen Pennsylvania 7-2-1962)

12-1962  -  Mrs. Antoinette Concello, the only woman to perform a triple somersault on the flying trapeze
is the first person elected to the Circus Hall of Fame while still alive.

The Circus Hall of Fame
(Sarasota Florida)
(Cournel Bill Naramore)
Harry Haag, Horse Ballet-prancing horses-8 horse Liberty Act;
Naomi - Rolling Globe; Ruby Haag - Canine Review 1963

Jack Joyce's Liberty Horse Act worked by Harry Haag Jr.
Ruby Haag - Pony Act - Toy and Beauty

Naomi and Pat friends

Pat wept when Harry complained about the rubber hot dog
It was the beginning of love

Pat visits Harry on Shrine Circus
Coogie the Camel wouldn't allow Pat near Harry

 

Al G. Kelly Miller Bros Circus  (1937-1968)(1984-1986)
Harry Haag Jr., Jack Joyce, Dory "D.R." Miller (winter 1962-1963)
Caribbean, Jamaica Tour
Kingston Jamaica (1-1963)

Harry Haag Jr. - Props

Jack Joyce's Liberty Horse Act

Pat and Harry on tour with 8 horse Liberty Act

Harry Haag Jr. 1963 Ringling Bros. in Madison Square Gardens NY

Last time Harry Haag Jr. with Jack Joyce

 

1963 - Circus Hall of Fame, Sarasota (Bill Naramore)
Martha - Supervised
Harry Haag Jr. - High School Ponies and Horse Ballet
Naomi Haag - Rolling Globe
Miss Ruby's Canine Revue

Jack on the road with Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey

Jack Joyce performance director for Ringling Bros
Harold Ronk - Ring Master
Donna Welch of Sarasota Florida falls 25 feet from trapeze
(Oakland Tribune, 8-3-1963)

1964 - Ringling - Jack Joyce - 3 Liberty Horse Acts, Camels
Ethel Jennier - Seals

Jack Joyce is the assistant personnel director for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
Oakland Tribune, 8-23-1964

1965 - Married Ethel Jennier

1965-69 - Animal Acts

1968 - Ringling

1969-70 - Greatest Show on Earth

1971 - Buffalo Bills Wild West, Bartok Circus

1972-73 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros

1974 - Ringling Circus Park, Fl

1977 - Consultant, Sarasota


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