Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig
in 1944 when he was a "kid" living in Colorado. A year later, as a
15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the
Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing
in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow Today, 70 years
later and countless circus and side show, vaudeville and burlesque
house performances under his belt, Ward Hall is still in the
business. Ward has worked with a monkey girl, a half-lady/half man,
numerous fat men, countless sword swallowers, fire eaters, several
giants, big snakes, big rats and little horses. He has mastered
juggling, ventriloquism and the art of enticing thousands of
curious onlookers to part with their money and go inside the tent
of his world-famous sideshows. Ward has owned and operated
sideshows, animal shows, magic shows, and illusion shows with such
fashionable names as Magic on Parade; Wondercade: Aquarama water
circus; Gladiators vs. Mankillers wild animal show; World
Attractions; Sky High Circus; the Wonder Circus; the Pygmy Village;
and the World of Wonders. He has exhibited the World's smallest
woman, the World's tallest giant, and employed Pete Terhune, the
mighty fire-eating dwarf for 55 years. In addition to owning or
co-owning sideshows and circuses during his career, Ward has
written four books, four musical stage productions, been in seven
movies and more than 100 videos and TV specials, performed at
Madison Square Garden and the Lincoln Center in New York City and
has sung at Carnegie Hall. He is in the Hall of Fame of both the
Outdoor Amusement Business Assoc. and the International Independent
Showmen's Assoc. and is a member of the prestigious Circus Ring of
Fame in Sarasota, Fla. Ward is the only person in all three of
those halls of honor. Ward has operated the sideshow for many big
time circuses, including: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Circus, the Toby Tyler Circus, the Al G. Miller Circus, Circus
Vargas (where he was part owner of the circus for a while), Beatty
Cole, and the E.K. Fernandez Circus. Ward Hall's title of King of
the Sideshows is not a new or recent act of coronation, and as the
ruler of his own little world of misfits and human anomalies,
Ward's title isn't self-awarded, but is a judgment rendered by his
peers. The year 2014 is the King's 70th year anniversary in show
business. This is his story.
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