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  • ...Simili; together they spent two seasons with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] with their perch-pole act. Wally married artist and future circus impresa ...ember 1963, to counteract a European tour of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] (whose disastrous tour never went that far south), the Tognis and [[Carol
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  • ...t: Alfredo was hired to perform his single trapeze act with the [[Barnum & Bailey Circus]] for two seasons (1910-1911), while Victoria did her slack wire act ...]]—whom Alfredo had met in 1910, when he was working on the Barnum & Bailey show. The Siegrist-Silbons, one of the best flying acts in the business at
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  • ...his father, Daniel is a versatile animal trainer. He worked notably with [[Mary Chipperfield]]’s elephants at Cirque Jean Richard in 1977, putting togeth Later that year, he joined [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus’s Blue Unit in the United States, where he presented [[Charly Ba
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  • ...gust 11, 1873. He was the son of Halford Lewis Mills of Smarden, Kent, and Mary Fenn Wagstaff. Halford Mills was the proprietor of a coach building firm in ...Agricultural Hall in December 1886, and in the spring of 1889, [[Barnum & Bailey]]’s ''Greatest Show On Earth'' came to Olympia, and returned there for su
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  • ...s face), coming second only after his famous [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] colleague, [[Lou Jacobs]]. During and after Jung’s lifetime, his distin ...rothers|Ringling]] brothers combined it with the Ringling-owned [[Barnum & Bailey Circus]] the following year. He would be working for the Ringling organizat
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  • ...s, and had been a center-ring headliner with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States for seven consecutive seasons. She was also c ...t of "la Virgen del Pino" ("The Virgin of the Pine Tree")—the Virgin Mary, who was said to have appeared in Las Palmas in a pine tree, and became the
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  • ...rola's sisters, Lydia, was the mother of the auguste [[Andreff]]; another, Mary, the grandmother of the auguste [[Gaston]] Häni—two of the greatest ...in 1919. In 1922, Gleich renamed his two-pole circus, ''European Barnum & Bailey''—with the word ''European'' in very small letters on the circus faç
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  • ===John and Mary Ruth=== ...y Thomas]], whom John Herriott considered as his hero and mentor. John and Mary Ruth’s marriage would last 60 years—until John’s death.
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  • ...s hired by [[John Ringling North]] to direct [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's new production. John Ringling North was in the process of modern ...decades after the initial illness. He was living then with his half-sister Mary in Austin, Texas; one day, as he was hanging curtains for her, he fell and
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  • ...2)|400px|left]]Sarasota was the winter home of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey]] Circus, as well as home to several other circuses and many circus familie ...xtensive outlays of up-front money. Then, one evening, Larry and his wife, Mary, were watching TV when the news showed an induction into the Hollywood Walk
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  • ...Sir" Robert Fossett, was the founder of the eponymous circus) and Isabelle Bailey. After the death of his father in December 1922, John, with some of his sib ...ng act (known as the Quebecs), which included Robert and Mary Fossett, and Mary's sons, Bobby and Tommy Roberts, Jack's first cousins. Then, when Emmy left
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