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  • ...ic''], a shearer, aged thirty-four years, and a native of the island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, nĂ ...ivoli circuit in 1937 for the patriotic revue show, ''Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue''. Con’s act, although essentially the same as when he ha
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  • ...ved with the Carmo and Mills circuses, and wrote a novel on circus life, ''Red Wagon'' [1930], which was made into a film starring Charles Bickford, Antho ...hey included Lord and Lady Birkenhead, Dame Laura Knight, Lady Cunard, Sir Thomas Beecham, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Sir Philip Sassoon, Lady Eleanor Smith, La
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  • ...John and Mary Ruth had been introduced to each other by Ringmaster [[Harry Thomas]], whom John Herriott considered as his hero and mentor. John and Mary Ruth ...s latter capacity that John Herriott returned to the Ringling show, on its Red Unit, in 1977. The following year, Irvin Feld sent him to [[Circus World]],
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  • ...ottit remarried one year later with a more sober husband, the equestrian [[Thomas Batty]], who took over the management of the circus. Young Foottit learned ...is parody was hilarious: Foottit’s Sarah-Cleopatra, replete with opulent red mane, bejeweled dress, and her fatal rubber snake, died endlessly and final
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  • ...ystem in his close friends at the circus: The faithful Emilio MaĂ®trejean, Thomas Hassan, his ''RĂ©gisseur'', and "Mr. Emile" (Émile Laurent) his comptrolle ...name. She left to her late husband’s associates, Emilio MaĂ®trejean and Thomas Hassan, the care of running the circus’s day-to-day operation, and asked
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  • ...little; when the fragile tower of the Nouveau-Cirque began to glare in the red aura of Bengal lights; when finally a beam of colored light came down from ...is parody was hilarious: Foottit’s Sarah-Cleopatra, replete with opulent red mane, bejeweled dress, and her fatal rubber snake, died endlessly before fi
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