Digital Archive

One way to announce your arrival in town with a bang is to use a cannon, and that's just what Garden Brothers Circus clown Jimmy Troy pretended to do (...)

Order Reproduction

One way to announce your arrival in town with a bang is to use a cannon, and that's just what Garden Brothers Circus clown Jimmy Troy pretended to do (...)

Date5/11/1971

Names

Goode, Jeff (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: One way to announce your arrival in town with a bang is to use a cannon; and that's just what Garden Brothers Circus clown Jimmy Troy pretended to do yesterday with the help of colleagues Tommy Cooper (left) and Raymo. Show opens tomorrow at Maple Leaf Gardens and is one of two in Toronto this week. The other is the Hanneford Circus which opens today at North York Centennial Centre.

Subject

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0004704F

Discover More

The Straits in full clown make-up which takes them an hour to put on before a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. In th(...)

The Straits in full clown make-up which takes them an hour to put on before a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. In th(...)

4/24/1973

Teri and Troy Strait. Young couple enjoy careers as clowns

Teri and Troy Strait. Young couple enjoy careers as clowns

4/24/1973

Former Moscow circus clown Valentine Gindin shows a couple of youngsters at Grenoble Public School in NorthYork how to pull a clown's face. But althou(...)

Former Moscow circus clown Valentine Gindin shows a couple of youngsters at Grenoble Public School in NorthYork how to pull a clown's face. But althou(...)

3/3/1977

Yuri Kuklachov, centre, who circus performers privately call the greatest clown there is, holds the Moscow Circus together Kuklachov coaxes a house ca(...)

Yuri Kuklachov, centre, who circus performers privately call the greatest clown there is, holds the Moscow Circus together Kuklachov coaxes a house ca(...)

9/28/1977

Clowning it up at the forum. The circus came to the Forum at Ontario Place yesterday, with Emmett Kelly Jr., son of the famous clown Emmett Kelly, on (...)

Clowning it up at the forum. The circus came to the Forum at Ontario Place yesterday, with Emmett Kelly Jr., son of the famous clown Emmett Kelly, on (...)

8/12/1974

Circus - Clowns

Circus - Clowns

5/13/1970

Circus - Clowns

Circus - Clowns

5/25/1979

Clown Frazier Mohawk nose-to-nose with Caleb Rubin, 7, at Harbourfront's circus, Bathurst Quay

Clown Frazier Mohawk nose-to-nose with Caleb Rubin, 7, at Harbourfront's circus, Bathurst Quay

8/9/1978

Circus woes. What could be worse for a circus than a Skidmore, 6, check the weather outside the Coliseum at Exhibition Place, where the Shrinners Circus is playing

Circus woes. What could be worse for a circus than a Skidmore, 6, check the weather outside the Coliseum at Exhibition Place, where the Shrinners Circus is playing

5/25/1979

Amazing balancing acts and lovable clowns are part of the excitement and fun at two circuses in town today

Amazing balancing acts and lovable clowns are part of the excitement and fun at two circuses in town today

5/25/1979

Billy the Clown, alias Bill Durtnall, demonstrates the art of putting on greasepaint for one of the 10 students from Edgar Adult Occupational Centre. (...)

Billy the Clown, alias Bill Durtnall, demonstrates the art of putting on greasepaint for one of the 10 students from Edgar Adult Occupational Centre. (...)

12/20/1974

Puckeirng up, Fifi, official clown of the Canadian National Exhibition, gets ready to kiss 2-year-old Lisa Bavington of Mississauga, one of thousands (...)

Puckeirng up, Fifi, official clown of the Canadian National Exhibition, gets ready to kiss 2-year-old Lisa Bavington of Mississauga, one of thousands (...)

8/21/1972