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  • ...h, which their company had visited regularly. Jacob Decastro, Astley's and Hughes's first biographer, who saw Ricketts perform in Whitechapel with the Jonese ...thor of pantomimes, who had been the partner of Ricketts's mentor, Charles Hughes. Indefatigable, Ricketts opened a similar circus in New York in 1797, on Gr
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  • ...ong them were a group of kids, age fourteen to sixteen, from Charles Evans Hughes High School; they practiced tumbling at a YMCA and were brought in by their
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  • ...ws in July 1773 because neither had secured the proper license to perform. Hughes then embarked on a long European tour, but Astley, who had just purchased h ...ircus, had in its center an obelisk that was a well-known landmark. Again, Hughes had moved his operation into the vicinity of Astley's Amphitheatre.
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  • ...en the norm since the original circuses of [[Philip Astley]] and [[Charles Hughes]] had appeared in the eighteenth century.
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  • ...hey may never have attained the prominence of [[Philip Astley]], [[Charles Hughes]], [[Andrew Ducrow]], [[George Sanger]], and other luminaries of the Britis ...is life on the road appearing in various circuses, many with famous names: Hughes, [[The Cooke Family|Cooke]], Macarte, [[The Ginnett family|Ginnett]], [[Hen
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  • ...theaters designed with a ring and a stage, such as those used by [[Charles Hughes]], the [[The Franconi Dynasty|Franconis]], and by Astley himself. ...rcus arts in Germany and Austria—and not to the English tradition of Hughes and Astley (and by extension, the Franconis).
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  • ...a generic name for the new form of entertainment, the ''circus''. In 1793, Hughes went to perform to the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russ ...Ringling Brothers]], Al (1832-1916), Otto (1837-1911), Alf T. (1863-1919), Charles (1864-1926), and John (1866-1936). One year after Bailey's death in 1906, t
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  • ...stley's contemporaries, whether pupils, competitors or colleagues: Charles Hughes, John Bill Ricketts, Philip Lailson, Antonio Franconi and a few others-incl
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