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