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  • ...mdash;came. Among them were a group of kids, age fourteen to sixteen, from Charles Evans Hughes High School; they practiced tumbling at a YMCA and were brough * Diana Starr Cooper, ''Night After Night'' (Washington DC/Covelo CA, Island Press/Shearwater Bo
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  • ...'Mumming Birds'', which spawned an immensely talented young comedian named Charles Chaplin. Just a month after his divorce came through, Harry Carmo married A ...ortant horse trainer of the time, who handled the horses with his stepson, Charles Barth, and Ruth Owen. There were also [[Conrad’s Bears]]; the Japanese ju
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  • ...ghes]] (1747-97), a former member of Astley's company. In association with Charles Dibdin, a prolific songwriter and author of pantomimes, Hughes opened a riv ...T. Barnum]] in 1881, [[James Anthony Bailey]] (1847-1906) had embarked his Cooper & Bailey Circus on a trip to Honolulu, the Fiji Islands, Tasmania, the Dutc
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  • ...s, which were presented by the talented English wild animal trainer [[John Cooper]]. He later purchased four more elephants: The group became the first large ...Jim’s brother-in-law, presented the circus’s horses "at liberty," and Charles’s brother [[The Madigan Family|James]] was the Equestrian Director: It wa
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