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12 Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, July 17, 1974 The Community Services Dept. of Waterloo distributed 3,000 free admission tickets for last week‘s Canadian International Circus at Aurora gets set to show the audience why she claims to have an iron jaw. Suspended by her teeth, this performer went through a series of aerial acroâ€" batics. the arena. It‘s obvious these fellows anticipated quite a show as they waited in line on Thursday afternoon. Larry Hanes certainly enjoys his work. Larry-travels with the circus working at a series of odd jobs, including selling balloons to the kids. t3 Circus .. story *‘Our payroll is enormous but if it wasn‘t we couldn‘t bring in a top notch show,"‘ said Burnes. This year the ringmaster is Will Hutchins who is best remembered as Sugarfoot in the television series that ran four seasons with a major American network. Will also starred in two other television series and has appeared in a number of motion pictures including Magnum Force, Laâ€" fayette Escadrille, Bombersâ€"52 and Clambake. â€" The International Circus tours Canada and the west coast of the United States extensively each year, starting in Caliâ€" fornia and swinging north and then west across Canada. Most of the performers call either Florida or Southern Caliâ€" fornia home but for up to eight months of each year they live out of their circus trailers. And there‘s very little time for anything but work as the circus plans as many dates as posâ€" sible with scarcely enough time allotted for travelling. It‘s a long, long road for the performers â€" especially when you consider the fact they are presenting close to a dozen shows each and every week! The boyhood dreams about running away to join the cirâ€" cus never include the amount of work involved. But then the majority of the performers wouldn‘t have it any other Last week thousands of children of all ages attended the 1974 edition of the Canadian International Circus at the Waâ€" terloo Arena. The show featured 20 acts including trapeze artists, jugâ€" lers, a lion tamer, canine review, elephants, a high wire act and a host of clowns. According to show manager Chuck Burnes the Internationâ€" al Circus is one of the five largest inâ€"North America and is constantly undergoing changes. It takes two or three years to acquire good circus acts according to Burnes because good circus performers are under contract. ‘*You can‘t bring the same show into a town year after year so you have to keep updating the acts. We plan our show at least two years in advance to get the people we want: Of course there are a certain number of acts that are carry overs but we change the rest each year."‘ Good acts cost good money and according to Burnes his circus has a weekly payroll in excess of $16,000. The Circus is really in their blood! Ringmaster Will Hutchins seems captivated by the fire featured 20 circus acts. The circus performed six times at juggling of these two circus performers. The two hour show the Waterioo Arena last week. Michael Rice prepares his elephants for an afternoon performance at the Waterloo Arena. For Mike, the elephants are as well behaved as any domesâ€" tic family pet. Photos and story by Don McCurdy Watertoo Chronicle, Wedpesday, July 17, 1974 13