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• Con Colleano
  ...sion, he hired aspiring young fighters in the cities and took them away to the bush to stand on his line-up boards to take on all and any challengers. ...rs, and a native of the island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, née Saunders, aged thirty-three year
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• May Wirth
  ...arizles ("Rill") Martin (1868-1948), an equestrienne and a sister of the [[The Wirth Family|Wirth brothers]], proprietors of one of Australia’s largest ...ed as "May Ringling," the "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit'' of circus performers, bareback riders in particular, May wa
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• Charlie Cairoli
  ...wer Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most popular attraction. ...rie Cairoli]] (1879-1956), Carletto’s father, he was born in Moissac, in the southwest of France, on April 9, 1879. He had began his career as a juggler
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• Marthe and Juliette Vesque
  ...visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century. ===Les Demoiselles Vesque===
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• Julius Gleich
  ...ope. It was emblematic of an era when German circuses were trying to match the gigantism of their American counterparts—a chimera that led several o ...had been in the United States at a young age, where he had been exposed to the American giant three-ring circuses, and then returned to Europe, purchased
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• Circus Williams
  ...reeding ground for three of the best animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Ge ...tte (1915-1987), of whom Carola was the eldest. Dominik Athoff had founded the circus that bore his name in 1905, and was a respected director and equestr
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• The Lorch Family
  ...-Württemberg, on July 14, 1847. Before the turn of the twentieth century, the brothers worked in partnership, and their ''Circus Gebrüder Lorch'' travel ...aintained winter quarters in Eschollbrücken (today part of Pfungstadt, in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg) in southern Hessen, where Hirsch Lorch and h
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...vies, and even popular songs. Its history is also closely intertwined with the life of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], ...drano’s reign in January 1963 was an event attended by the Tout-Paris of the arts, and its demolition in December 1973 caused a massive uproar that even
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• Barbette
  ...artist Barbette (1898-1973) was one of the greatest and brightest stars of the international variety circuit, notably in Europe. If he was indeed a talent ...d even a play have been published on Barbette, his act, and his androgyny. The most important publication, ''Le numéro Barbette'', with texts by Cocteau
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