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• Billy Smart
  A larger-than-life character, Billy Smart (1894-1966) was born William George Smart on April 25, 1894, in a family of 23 children. His father had owned a ...aters first, then in halls such as Bingley Hall in Birmingham, and Queen's Hall in Leeds, and he rented out his animal acts to other winter shows.
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• Barry Lubin
  ...antic City, New Jersey, the son of Edythe Weinberg Lubin, a homemaker, and George Simon Lubin, an audiovisual engineer. Barry nurtured hopes of becoming a te ...essful headstand on a whoopee-cushion on the illustrious stage of Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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• New York Circuses
  ...824 on the North side of Chatham Street, between Duane and Pearl (now City Hall Place), and known as the American Opera House in 1829. ...ngress of Nations'', a spectacle Barnum bought from circus-producer "Lord" George Sanger in London. The partners use the space until 1875. It then becomes th
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• Philip Astley
  ...don (Westminster, Blackfriars, and London Bridge). The place, known as St. George's Circus, had in its center an obelisk that was a well-known landmark. Agai ...epossessed the Royal Circus and, in 1794, leased it to [[James Jones]] and George Jones, whose company had included for a while [[John Bill Ricketts]], a tal
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• Johnny Hutch
  ...made his professional debut as the act’s top mounter at the Empire Music Hall in Middlesbrough. It was also the beginning of his apprenticeship, which wo ...lds topping the bill. Still in 1928, they performed at another great music hall, the London Coliseum (today home of the English National Opera), in a show
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• Bertram Mills
  ...rcus and Allied Fair'' at the [[Olympia of Kensington|Olympia]] exhibition hall in London. It was the first post-war entertainment staged there, from Decem ...reat Hippodrome of Paris'' was staged at Olympia’s National Agricultural Hall in December 1886, and in the spring of 1889, [[Barnum & Bailey]]’s ''Grea
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• Cyril Mills
  ...of the ''Great Victory Circus and Allied Fair'' at the Olympia exhibition hall in London during the 1919/1920 winter season; when pressed for his opinion ...Bertram Mills also had the biggest dance hall in the world at the National Hall, Olympia), and by the winter of 1925/1926, he was assistant manager for the
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• Norman Barrett
  ...ng a break from the circus life they enjoyed. Norman’s grandfather, also George Barrett, had been the owner of a small iron and steel works in Bradford, We ...hitect, Winifred worked as a children’s nurse for a neighbouring farmer. George and Winifred married in 1921.
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• Charlie Cairoli
  ...ean-Marie and Carletto Cairoli worked in Christmas pantomimes and in music hall (vaudeville). In 1943, they appeared as the "Cairoli Brothers" in the movie ...egendary music hall, where the "Cairoli Brothers" had already worked) in a George Black revue titled ''If It’s Laughter You’re After''. On account of the
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• The Great Carmo
  ...mos joined a variety show, ''Heller’s Entertainers'', run by "Professor" George Heller and his wife, Maude, with which they travelled to England early in 1 ...n at the ''Fun Fair'' [[Bertram Mills|Bertram W. Mills]] staged in the big hall at the [[Olympia of Kensington]] in London, and which was adjacent to his c
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• Lilly Yokoi
  ...Olga (Akimo), and Kimiko ([[Kimi Yokoi|Kimi]], 1939-1990), and their son, George, in their craft.[[File:Mary_Yokoi.jpeg|index|left|thumb|400px|Mary Yokoi (c ...(In time, Kimi would embark into a successful solo career of her own, and George would complete the trio.) That very year (1956), Lilly made her first telev
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• The Aragón Family
  ...eason’s ''American Scene Magazine'' on CBS; on NBC’s ''The Kraft Music Hall''; and on ABC’s ''The Hollywood Palace'', among others. ...ival, enthralled as it was by the remarkable and unexpected performance of George Carl.
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  * George Speaight, ''A History of the Circus'' (San Diego and New York, A. S. Barnes ...ough, ''Step Right Up! — The Adventure of Circus in America'' (White Hall, VA, Betterway Publications, 1990) — ISBN 1-55870-140-0
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ...Davenport show, she with Trude, and he with his father and siblings in the George Hanneford Family jockey act. They met again on yet another show, and Tommy ...1965, among others. Princess Tajana was also featured at Radio City Music-Hall in New York City in 1971: She had become indeed a name to conjure with.
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• Foottit et Chocolat
  =='''George Foottit'''== ...l intents and purposes, George’s father was known, like his son, as Geo (George) Foottit (?-1874), and he had performed at Drury Lane Theatre in London as
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• Foottit et Chocolat/fr
  =='''George Foottit'''== ...ause, Foottit père était connu, tout comme son fils, sous le nom de Geo (George) Foottit (?-1874), et il s’était produit au Théâtre de Drury Lane, à
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...e trapeze artist and equestrian Baptiste Gillardoni, and the English clown George Howard. It was a small company, but the number of horses and the presence o ...rs were the three French windows of the foyer standing above the reception hall, ornamented with elegantly designed wrought-iron balustrades.
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...enjoy one of its more lucrative periods; and the brand-new [[Empire Music-Hall Cirque]] opened its doors Avenue de Wagram: The small "bonbonniere" that wa ...business—not so much in the theater as in the popular British Music-Hall, which was then blooming. Meanwhile, in September, France suffered a humili
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• Rico y Alex
  ...e of humor and, like many acrobats on horseback before and after him (from George Foottit and [[Les Fratellini|François Fratellini]] to [[Béby Frediani]], ...famous music-hall of Paris's Left Bank, and the fashionable [[Empire Music-Hall Cirque]], on the avenue de Wagram—a testimony to their enduring Paris
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• Circus Ring of Fame
  '''George Carden''' (circus owner), '''Ward Hall''' (sideshow operator),
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