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  • ...ry. England had become a constitutional monarchy in 1688, and the spending power of the nobility had been curbed considerably. Private regiments were disapp ...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
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  • ...uman Cannonball; [[Rudolf Matthies]] and his tigers; [[Power’s Elephants|Power]]’s Wonder Elephants; [[Kannan Bombayo]]’s bounding rope act; the femal ...by the Duchess of Kent, who with the Duke brought their young son, Prince George, to the last Olympia season in 1967. She said to Cyril Mills: "He really is
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  • ...the provinces had not seen for a long time, if ever. I do not think [[Lord George Sanger|Sanger]] or anyone else had ever tempted to produce an international ...first circus proprietor to travel around Europe seeking acts under his own power. (In post-war years, [[Billy Smart|Ronnie Smart]], of [[Billy Smart’s Cir
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  • =='''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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  • ...s children tale and directed by George Cukor—a testimony to Oleg’s power to bridge international relations. ...ievements—in the same way, in fact, than when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. Oleg Popov, an icon of this Russian past, wondered how, at his age
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  • ...ed with gas lighting in case of electrical failure: Apparently, electrical power was not deemed entirely reliable.) Solignac also designed a system to keep ...quickly reinforced, notably with the arrival of a talented young clown, [[George Foottit]], whose parody of a ballerina on horseback was a huge hit. Foottit
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