Souvenir program of world's only circus school indoor circus

Creator

Manitowoc School of Vocational and Adult Education (Manitowoc, Wis.)

Date

• 1939

Summary

• Sample pages from a sixteen page program from the April 24-May 3, 1939 performance of the Manitowoc Vocational School Indoor Circus in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. In addition to the program listing twenty-two acts, the booklet includes a biographical sketch of the circus school’s founder, William G. Schultz (“Billy Schultz”), a history of the circus school, descriptions and photographs of many of the acrobatic acts, and listings of circus school personnel and contributing committees. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Manitowoc Vocational School offered what was termed the world’s only circus “prep” school under the direction of William G. (“Billy”) Schultz, a Manitowoc resident who had performed nationally as a circus acrobat, aerialist, and vaudeville star. Schultz’s student performers appeared at many special events in Manitowoc and throughout the state, and put on full circus shows in Manitowoc in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1942, 1946, and 1948.