I beg to beg to differ lol. Because it's funny that this conversation came up in the class, and is usually a point that's brought up. History doesn't know who said it but it defintiely involved those two people.

I dunno really, but the tale involves the both of them standing outside the front of a freak show circus tent watching people fork over money to go in and see some weird circus show...

This is the guy that taught me circus history. Very awesome dude:

"LaVahn Hoh’s first encounter with the circus was momentous. “It made such an impression on me that I can still describe what I saw that day,” he recalls. Fifty years later, Hoh is as passionate about the circus as ever—but now he knows more about it than all but a handful of people.

Hoh, a professor of drama and an expert in technical theater and special effects, could never get the sawdust out of his veins. As an adult, he continued to go to circuses every chance he could, visiting such shrines for circus lovers as the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and the Ringling Museum of the Circus in Sarasota, Florida."

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~fmj4f/web/circus_news.html