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  • '''John Lawson's''' Circus [http://www.johnlawsonscircus.co.uk/ www.johnlawsonscirc ...ng Museum of Art (''USA'') [http://www.ringling.org/CircusMuseums.aspx www.ringling.org/CircusMuseums.aspx]
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  • ...r the show's Clown Alley, principally taught its students how to become a "Ringling clown," able to work efficiently in the specific context of ''The Greatest ...|Barry Lubin?Grandma (2011]]Barry created his ''Grandma'' character at the Ringling Bros. winter quarters in Venice, Florida. Not strong on physical skills, Ba
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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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  • ...ing North]], and in October of the same year, she signed a contract with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', then in ...States in April 1951, where she would eventually spend six years with the Ringling show. There she would reunite with her friend, Pinito del Oro. On September
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  • ...alacios]], with triple-somersaulter [[Lalo Palacio]], were starring in the Ringling show, and the triple, still a rarity at the time, became Tito's goal. He ca ...978, becoming the leading star act of the circus's Blue Unit. In 1974, the Ringling show featured two Flying Gaonas acts: the original one and a second troupe
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  • ...brated clown [[Lou Jacobs]] (1903-1992), was for decades associated with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], where he performed from 1925 to 1985. Her moth In 1948, Jean ran away and joined the circus. She became a showgirl with the Ringling Bros. This was still the era of the giant traveling big tops and circus tra
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  • ...presented him with a group of horses; and circus luminaries such as [[John Ringling North]], [[Arturo Castilla]], [[Joseph Bouglione]], and [[Cyril Mills]] wer
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  • ...e]] in 1979 and spent the following year somersaulting over elephants at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. In 1981, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]], w Jeff's first experience as a clown had come as part of the Ringling show, but he felt much more comfortable in the intimate, one-ring European
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  • ...met circus mogul [[John Ringling North]], who offered him a contract for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States—adding as a b ...s in the 1948 Ringling production, conceived by Broadway director-producer John Murray Anderson, and designed by the legendary Miles White (''Oklahoma'', '
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  • ...y, where they played a large sport arena. [[Kenneth Feld]], the owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], who had seen David in Monte Carlo, flew to Mex ...th Ringling (1997)]]Beginning in 1991, David will stay fourteen years with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, succeeding the legendary [[Gunther Gebel William
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  • ...Alzana was, from the late forties to the mid-sixties, a star fixture of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey]] Circus. His daredevil manner—working on ...potential in Harold Alzana, and the act was booked for the 1947 season of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth''.
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  • By 1967, [[John Ringling North]], the owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], had lost interest in his circus. On November 1 ...bleached-blond Siegfried in spangled costumes, designed by the flamboyant Ringling costumier, Don Foote. Gunther’s talent and charisma, and his sheer joy of
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  • ...er existing tiger groups, including one from [[John Ringling North]] for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, but Baumann’s asking price was to hig ...hn Ringling North offered him once again to come to the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This time, the price was right. In spite
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  • ...ad already left Europe, and was performing in the United States with the [[Ringling Bros. Circus]]. ...of [[Charles Ringling]] and, in May 1914, The Orpingtons debuted with the Ringling Bros. Circus in Chicago.[[File:Orpingtons.png|thumb|left|300px|The Orpingto
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  • ..., and trained a group of exotic animals. It is during this engagement with Ringling that his daughter, Sandrine, debuted as an animal trainer in her own right. ...d to [[Tarzan Zerbini]]. He will also present a group of white tigers from John Cuneo’s breeding farm.
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  • ...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 on ''The G ...thumb|right|380px|Fritz, Damoo Dhotre, Court, and Willy Storey (c.1945)]][[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]’s new show debuted at New York's Madison Squa
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  • ...udia Cardinale) in Henry Hathaway’s ''Circus World'' (1964), co-starring John Wayne, and shot at [[Circus Franz Althoff]]—a movie that has kept on ...van (1962)]]In 1958 and 1959 Maryse Begary was in the United States with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, the featured performer of a spectacular
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  • ...in the world returning to London after a long hiatus! Unfortunately, John Ringling was unable to arrange shipping space for such a huge undertaking so soon af ...ls, ran the funfair for several winters. In the first London seasons, too, Ringling’s legendary musical director, [[Merle Evans]], directed the Mills’ band
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  • ...tinent (following the disappointing news that [[The Ringling Brothers|John Ringling]] couldn’t bring over from America ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' to fill ...ip of his foot to his head while balancing on a unicycle; [[Little John]] (John Seidel), the twelve-year-old Danish Boy-Wonder equilibrist; [[Con Colleano]
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  • ...h the great Ringling circus as its center-ring attraction. His salary with Ringling went up each season, so that by the late 1930s, he was earning $1,000 per w At the end of their 1955 engagement with the Ringling Circus, Con and his wife returned to Australia but their attempt to settle
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