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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== [[File:Billy_Smart's_Circus_(1946).jpeg|thumb|left|400px|Billy Smart's Circus and Fun Fair (1946)]]This was apparently his debut as a showman, although h
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• Links
  ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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• Katja Schumann
  ...Denmark, to one of the circus world's oldest and most respected families. Circus lore attaches the Schumanns first to Berlin, then to Denmark. Although the ...rkus Schumann]], Katja made her first appearance in the ring of the family circus at age 10, as a ballerina on horseback. She subsequently worked in her fami
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...some legitimacy, the Flying Gaonas. And indeed, this has happened. To the circus world, however, there has been one and only one Flying Gaonas: the act in w Victor Gaona Murillo (1925-2016) was born to an old, prolific Mexican circus family that traces its roots to the Circo Gaona y León, created in 1891 by
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• Paulina Schumann
  ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes. In the 1930s, the Rivels toured Europe, appearing in virtually every circus and variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed h
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons. ...s, the brothers began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acroba
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• Aurelia Cats
  ...re Rampe]] in Monte Carlo, the youth circus version of the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]]. ...cus—from acrobatics to horse vaulting—by a series of brilliant circus instructors, including [[The Larible Brothers|Enzo Larible]], [[The Boginos
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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• Charly Baumann
  ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...of the monumental [[Circus Busch]] in Berlin, and had reigned over a vast circus empire that included circuses in Altona, Hamburg, Breslau, and Vienna, and
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• The Codonas
  ...Rabenalt’s ''Die drei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. Alfredo (1893-1937) and Abelardo ("Lalo," 1895-1951) Codona were born into a circus family. Their grandfather, Henry, came from a long line of Scottish showmen
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• Walter Milde
  ...of Wroclaw). He made his professional circus debut as a property man at [[Circus Roland]], in Germany, in 1950. There, he developed a passion for big cats, ...l-fledged wild animal trainer, presenting himself lions and polar bears at Circus [[Adolf Fisher]] in Germany. From 1962 to 1965, he worked in Italy at [[The
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Ursula Böttcher
  ...the huge polar bears she eventually chose to present, and which made her a circus star all over Europe and in the United States. ...p novels: She took a job as an usher and cleaning woman with [[Jakob Busch|Circus Busch]], which was visiting Dresden in 1952. She was twenty-five, living ri
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• Maryse Begary
  ...Banola Troupe. Andrée adopted his name (as was the tradition then, in the circus, when a young performer had apprenticed to a famous master) when she starte ...ame for herself: Her handstand on her trapeze bar didn’t fail to impress circus professionals and aficionados, and her act continued to improve over the ye
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...unced the "Death of Britain’s Nº 1 Showman" and the "King of the Modern Circus," indicating the unrivalled position in which the showman was revered.
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• Cyril Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...break for National Service in the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• May Wirth
  ...Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the southwest coast of Africa) ...he "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit'' of circus performers, bareback riders in particular, May was short but strong. She g
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• Norman Barrett
  Over many years, Norman Barrett has become the most loved and best known circus personality in Great Britain—regarded as "The World’s Greatest Ring ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Rogana
  ...ters had revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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• Bertram Mills Circus
  * Robert Aylwin, ''The Bertram Mills Book Of The Circus'' (London, Naldrett, 1954) * Cyril Bertram Mills, ''Bertram Mills Circus — Its Story'' (London, Hutchinson, 1967; paperback reprint published
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