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  • ...twelve Shetland ponies. She was tutored in horse and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus's head trainer. ...tably for [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland and [[Circus Krone]] and [[Circus Hagenbeck]] in Germany. Eventually, Yasmine became a celebrated "Ringmistress"—
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  • ...nce has been by and large completely forgotten. Yet, from the ''Circus'' [[John Bill Ricketts]] erected in Philadelphia in 1793, to New York's ''Hippotheat - British equestrian John Bill Ricketts, who had just opened the first circus in America—in Phi
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  • ...l, and Charlie’s exploit caught the attention of [[Erie Klant]], [[Willy Hagenbeck]]’s stepson, who owned the act, and whose Walkenburg, Holland, zoological ...'s lions (all six of them) before Bosman’s departure. Fortunately, Willy Hagenbeck was around and able to lend a hand, and Charly Baumann—who could now
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  • ...us with a vast menagerie (inspired at first by the German circus of [[Carl Hagenbeck]]—thus the original title, Zoo Zirkus—but also, undoubtedly, by ...e United States, and it included ethnic exhibitions, a trademark of Zirkus Hagenbeck, and sideshow attractions like those Court had seen at the Ringling Bros. C
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  • ...Schulz, who had become a famous wild animal trapper for the firm of [[Carl Hagenbeck]], Fritz apprenticed as a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion f ...nd-up was motivated by the fact that he had received a timely offer from [[John Ringling North]] to go to the United States and work with all his animals o
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  • ...oke out, impresario Charles B. Cochran had staged ''[[The Hagenbeck Family|Hagenbeck]]’s Wonder Zoo and Circus'', from Germany, in the winter of 1913/1914. Co ...ircus in the world returning to London after a long hiatus! Unfortunately, John Ringling was unable to arrange shipping space for such a huge undertaking s
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  • ...e continent (following the disappointing news that [[The Ringling Brothers|John Ringling]] couldn’t bring over from America ''The Greatest Show On Earth' ...ircus Sarrasani|Sarrasani]], [[Circus Krone|Krone]] and [[Circus Hagenbeck|Hagenbeck]], which were leading the European travelling circus industry—Bertram
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  • ...rn on June 6, 1894 at Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the sout ...|thumb|left|400px|May Wirth (1913)]]Nonetheless, she was spotted by one of John Ringling’s talent scouts and was engaged in 1912 to tour the United State
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  • ...ills Circus was the [[The Hagenbeck Family|Hagenbeck]]-trained Austrian, [[John Gindl]], who developed Norman’s grounding in the training and presentatio ...surprise guests, another surprise backstage was the producer of the show, John Fisher, for whom Norman had worked in the popular TV series, ''The Paul Dan
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  • ...ue d’Hiver]]; and [[Circus Krone]], [[Circus Barnum]] and [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] in Germany—among others. That same year, the Hassani Troupe were cast in John Glen’s James Bond film, ''Octopussy'' (released in1983), which marked the
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  • ...etersburg, Russia; that same year, one of his pupils, British equestrian [[John Bill Ricketts]] (1769-1802), opened the first circus in the United States, ...1832-1916), Otto (1837-1911), Alf T. (1863-1919), Charles (1864-1926), and John (1866-1936). One year after Bailey's death in 1906, the Ringlings acquired
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  • ...on the road. Adolf and Carola would manage the two circuses (Williams and Hagenbeck) conjointly until 1956. In the absence of Alfons and Jeanette, Carola also ...ano's elephants in Italy (1963)]]In 1963, news spread across Europe that [[John Ringling North]] was sending a touring unit of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum
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  • ...[[Carl Krone]], colleagues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]]. ...mals were horses, but a first elephant bought from [[The Hagenbeck Dynasty|Hagenbeck]] was soon added, and seven more would follow in 1906, purchased from the L
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  • ...mpertz]], who was taking over the circus from the ailing and cash-strapped John Ringling. [[File:Kannan_Bombayo_-_Hagenbeck-Wallace.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Poster (1933)]]One of the Ringling Circus’s immediate conc
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  • [[File:Krone_Der_Triump.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Hagenbeck's ''Der Triumph'']]In 1892, Krone's Menagerie Continental (also titled at s Among them, Hamburg’s own [[The Hagenbeck Dynasty|Hagenbeck]] company was becoming synonymous with foreign exoticism, pioneering the tr
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  • ...at trainers of his generation, who came from the famous [[Erie Klant|Klant-Hagenbeck]] school of Walkenburg, in the Netherlands; Baumann taught Walter the rudim ...in Italy with a team of professionals that didn’t come from the circus: John Wertz was the choreographer, the costumes were by the famous opera and revu
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  • ...who were far more successful and reliable and ran the famous [[Circus Carl Hagenbeck]], named after their legendary father, as well as several circus buildings. ...the circus reverted to its old ''Dominik Althoff'' title. (Willy and Carl Hagenbeck lent their name to another circus venture under the management of [[Oskar H
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  • ...the actress Tove Boëtius (1919-1976), and had then two children, Eva and John Ernst (b.1948); the latter married Germaine Dedessus Le Moutier, of the [[D ...ircus Renz in Vienna, owned by [[The Hagenbeck Dynasty|Heinrich and Lorenz Hagenbeck]], and then went to Göteborg and Stockholm. Their 1939 summer tour in Swed
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