Miscellaneous Acts

Real Photo Postcard, circa 1925 of Langevin "Eye-Smoking"

Working Acts Musical Oddities Unusual Artists & Craftsmen

Burkhart, Melvin "Originator of Human Blockhead"

Hubbell, Art "Blockhead"

Electricia "The Girl Who Tames Electricity" [d]

Electric Man [d]

{See Also "Swordswallowers"}

{See Also "Fireeaters"}

{See Also "Tattooed"}

{See Also "Human Pincushions"}

{Sword Ladder}

{Blade Box}

Bayrooty "Whirling Dervishes"[ajax]

Gardner Roy "One Man Band"

Le Petomane

Marvello "Fingerless Pianist"

Miller, James Marion A.,

"Calico Jim"

Mortensen, Mort "Piano Wonder"

Musical Johnstons "Xylophonists"

Smith, Harold "Musical Drinking Glasses"

{Scottish Bag Pipers}

{Hawaiian Uke Bands}

{Glassblowers}

Bill Hart and His Dreamland Glass Workers [ajax101]

{Wire-Benders}

{Chainsaw Sculpters}

Blystone, E.L. "Microscopic Writer"

Homma "The Rice Writer"

Zaharee, James W. "Microscopic Writer"

Morrell, Prof. & Mrs."Jack-Knife King & Queen"

Burke, Henry Paul "Ambidextrous Cartoonist"

Thorpe, Clarence "Blindfolded Cartoonist"

Warren, C.E. (Dixie) "Comic Trick Cartoonist"

Gurners & Grimacers Unclassified

Human Ostrichs (& Regurgitators, Water Spouters, Glass Eaters, etc.)

Everhart, Robert "Gurning & Grimacing"

Lewis, Forest "Man of Many Faces"

Whittaker, Paul "The Eye-Popper"

McWilliams, Paul "Big Mouth"

"Three Ball Charlie" (also "Congo") [blk 0-782]


Strange Talents

Deal, Edward, "Forehead Smoker" [jm]

Langevin, Alfred ("Eye-Smoker" Blows Out Candle with Eye)

Mr. Charles (Blows Bubbles Through His Ears) [mm124]

Moratado "The Crucified Man"

Perry, "Pop Eye" Pop-Eye Perry

Popeye The Sailor [d]

Smoko, "Man With Two Mouths" (With Johnny Jones, 1934) [bg]

Smoky (also "Smokey", George Vokal?)

Hall, Earl "Smoky"


{Hunger Artists}

Athletic Shows

Bicyclists (Diavolo etc.)

Pit Shows

Palmistry & "Mitt Camps"

Punch & Judy

Spiritualists

Thrill Shows

 

Wax Shows

 

 

Fielding, Eugene & Wife "Tattooed People Eating, Sleeping and Smoking Underwater" [ajax101]

"Cannon-Ball" Richards "The Human Target" [ajax201]

Edema, Edward "Human Automobile Tire"

Frozo "The World's Famous" [d]

Stone, John R. "The Miracle Man-Human or Robot?" [blk 0-531]

Hermann "Expansionist" (with 1904 Barnum and Bailey)

Wood, J.C. "Whiskers Of Live Bees", "King of Bees" [ajax101]

Zeller "The Only Man Passing His Body Through A Keyhole" [ajax101]

Princesse Dalhi "Suspended Animation" [d]

Swan, Bert "Alligator-Fighter" [d]

Sylvester, Fred, Progeny Whirler [d]

Wells, Billy "Stonehead" [mr154]

Mandy, James "The Man With The Iron Skull" [ajax301]

Edna La Blance "Mac Kassow" "The Girl You Cannot Lift"

Mesmerizing Rings [d,ajax99]

Lady Bag Puncher [lauther]

Master Wade Cochran, 6 Year Old Mental Prodigy (with Barnum & Bailey 1898-99) [jm]

Alfonso "Human Ostrich" [ajax101]

Miss May Bunting "Lady Glass Eater" (Chatham Museum 1883) [d]

Digesto "The Human Ostrich" (Hubert's Museum, 1960's: Eats Tacks, Glass Razor Blades) [d]

English Jack [JB]

Grendol, Joseph "Swallows All"

Hadji Ali "The Human Fountain"

Kanichka "Man With Ostrich Stomach"

Norton, Mac (also Max) "L'Homme Aquarium" [mm125]

Rohrl, Hans "The Human Water Spout" [d]

Waldo The Great (D. Waldow) "Mouse Regurgitator" (Hubert's Museum, 1960's)

Wilton, Max (imitator of Mac Norton?) "Human Aquarium"


 

{Black Tent Cinema}

{Crime Shows}

{Drug and Dope Shows}

{Illusion Shows}

{Menageries}

{Mechanical & Miniature Shows}

{Monkey Speedway}

{Motordrome}

{Panoramas}

{Religious Shows}

{Shadowography}

{Staged Train & Auto Wrecks}

{Torture Shows}

 

 

[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue [dpm] Daniel P. Mannix [d] doghouse collection [JB] Jan Bondeson [rb] Robert Bogdan [rj] Ricky Jay [kkk] Kunhardt [mm] Martin Monestier [bg] Bob Goldsack

[jm] James Mundie

Multi-talented, appears in more than one category.

Appeared in Robert Ripley museum or cartoon.

Full article needed and/or forthcoming.

(This page last updated 9/17/05)