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  • ...was given the management of the small circus building of Furuviksparken, a zoo and amusement part in Gälve, by the Baltic Sea. Inaugurated in November 19 ...appened, but Houcke was already performing as "Tarzan" when he came to the British Isles in 1946, and we know he had already played the character in 1939 in A
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  • ...e twentieth century in Europe, triggered by the European tour of the giant American circus [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], which introduced Europea ...exhibition of "exotic" tribes from the far-away lands of America, Asia and Africa. The Hagenbecks had also just started to experiment in a new area: the mode
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  • ...Chipperfield]], had become but a pale shadow of its former self. The great British circus impresarios of the post-WWII era, [[Cyril Mills|Cyril and Bernard Mi Gerry Cottle grew up at a time when the British circus was in its most glorious period: Billy Smart’s and the Chipperfiel
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