@article{1460967,
      recid = {1460967},
      author = {Hammarstrom, David Lewis,},
      title = {Big top boss : John Ringling North and the circus /},
      publisher = {University of Illinois Press,},
      address = {Urbana :},
      pages = {xviii, 341 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {A brilliant, eclectic showman, circus king John Ringling  North achieved international fame as a talent scout,  booking the likes of Gargantua the Great and Unus, the man  who stood on his forefinger. He once engaged George  Balanchine to choreograph a ballet for elephants, with Igor  Stravinsky composing the music. Big Top Boss explores the  remarkable career of North, who ran Ringling Bros. and  Barnum & Bailey Circus for thirty years. Using as a  backdrop North's flamboyant.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1460967},
}