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  • ...one that was different from both the gigantic corporate affair that was [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] and the pathetic remnants of the defunct golden ...ce was found on Spring Street, in a storefront owned by theatre wunderkind Robert Wilson. Now, the school had a home of its own.
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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 ...rto Zoppé c.1950]]Alberto Zoppé debuted in the United States in the 1948 Ringling production, conceived by Broadway director-producer John Murray Anderson, a
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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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  • ...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 ...1934; Ohmi, the Tattooed Man with the Ostrich Digestion; and Gargantua, [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]’s star gorilla—attractions that were th
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  • ...and helped Sue with her dog act. Then, in 1956 the Yeldings moved to the [[Robert Brothers Circus]], one of Britain’s larger tenting circuses, and Norman f It was for Robert Brothers Circus that Norman became ringmaster for the first time, in the wi
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  • Rob Torres was born Robert Joseph Torres in Rockland County, New York, on September 10, 1973 to Margue ...juggling and magic and developed a love for the circus. In 1992 he joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s [[Clown College]] in Venice, Florida, where h
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  • ...ted States in early 1940, where he had obtained a timely contract with the Ringling show. ...to cross to England, where he settled and worked for many years with [[Sir Robert Fossett’s Circus]]. This opened the doors for Gilbert: He was finally abl
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  • ...l Krone]], colleagues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]]. ...us under canvas. He found a partner in his old friend and fellow performer Robert Milde-Milton, and in 1901, they settled in Radebeul (a town in the suburbs
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  • ...Marins de Cronstadt'', but he flopped soon after with a comic pantomime, ''Robert Macaire'', which he kept nonetheless on the bill for two months—which ...Mills]] and his sons [[Cyril Mills|Cyril and Bernard]] in England, [[John Ringling North]] in the United States, and before them, [[Hans Stosch-Sarrasani|Hans
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  • [[File:Barbette_Ringling_43.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Barbette on the Ringling Lot (1943)]]What we know is that Barbette spent eighteen months at the Post ...irect [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's new production. John Ringling North was in the process of modernizing his uncles' old circus. Murray Ande
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