Beal, George Brinton

Beal (born ca. 1887) was an editor with the Boston Sunday Post daily newspaper, a drama critic of the Emerson Quarterly, a writer and photographer, and a collector of circus materials. In 1938 he published "Through the back door of the circus".

George Brinton Beal (born 1888 in Lawrence, Massachusetts) was an editor with the Boston Post daily newspaper, a drama critic for the Emerson Quarterly and Boston Post, instructor at Emerson College in dramatic criticism, a writer, artist, photographer, lecturer, movie maker, and an authority on the circus and collector of circus, rodeo, and other theatrical materials.

Beal often traveled with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Combined Circus, gathering data for his writing and lectures, and taking photographs and motion pictures. In 1938 he published Through the back door of the circus with George Brinton Beal (Springfield, Mass.: McLoughlin Bros. Inc.). Along with the publication of this book, Beal delivered lectures about the circus, accompanied with his motion pictures.