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• New York Circuses
  ..., or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of th ...ofitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...ctivity of the organization. It became one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatic ...andoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States and beyond, and limited its activity to its Lincoln Center four-month winter season. Howeve
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• Miss Mara
  ...the firstborn of a very large family: She had six brothers and one sister, and all her life she would assume a sort of matriarchal responsibility for her ...on presentation at the time. Her tricks included heel-catches, neck-hangs, and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the grea
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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...1967, the troupe came to the United States, where they performed in fairs and traveling circuses. ...arized this style of frenetic high-wire daredevilry, but when the Carrillo Brothers began performing their act, it was still a novelty.
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...rs, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple somersaults with extraordinary grace and astonishing consistency. ...former military officer (whose brother, Rodolfo, was a well-known torero), and Carlos León, a trapeze artist. Victor's father, also named Bernabé, was a
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...woman, she was a photographer, a published writer, a model and cover girl, and even held a pilot's license—all this at a time when women were suppos ...ecovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann Jacobs|Lou Ann]] and Dolly Jean.
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s).
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...|Pedro Carrillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• The Carrillos
  ...s|Pedro Carillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• Circus Nikulin
  == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the ...local bars. Needless to say, Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunction
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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 ...ther was interned in Ravensbrück, and Heinz was sent to a Nazi orphanage, and then to work on a farm.
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...mal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Daniel Suskov
  ...WII, in the circuses of whom he presented for many years all sorts of wild and domestic animals. Daniel grew up in the circus. He was still a teenager when he was hired by [[Jo Clavel]] to work in [[Je
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• Les Castors
  ...decades, it has remained the same in form—a mixture of foot juggling and risley act, which, over the years, has been increasingly interspersed with ...Nona, their mother, was born [[The Bedinis|Bedini]], a celebrated Russian circus family of Italian origins.
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• Flying Cortes
  ...roupe were contracted by [[Hoxie Bros. Circus]] to perform their high wire and flying trapeze acts. Young Robinson performed in both acts; brother Alex wa ...retired from performing, Robinson replaced him as the catcher of the act, and Alex became the main flyer.
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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== ...he Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• Con Colleano
  ...d took them away to the bush to stand on his line-up boards to take on all and any challengers. ...he island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, née Saunders, aged thirty-three years, a half-caste Abori
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• May Wirth
  ...(1868-1948), an equestrienne and a sister of the [[The Wirth Family|Wirth brothers]], proprietors of one of Australia’s largest circuses. ...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
  ...-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody! ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ns and marketing, his foresight of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• Ali Hassani
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey''
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• Nadia Houcke
  ...[[Alphonse Rancy]] (1861-1933). She belonged to genuine circus aristocracy and, not surprisingly, she was an equestrienne of great talent. ...e]] eventually turned into a unforgettable tiger trainer—and a major circus star when he became the first "Tarzan" of the big cage in the 1940s, wearin
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• Paul Jung
  ...oxes of Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks—and has been often used on European circus posters as a generic clown image. ...r the Ringling organization, with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' and other Ringling-owned circuses, for nearly half a century.
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...as also courageous and resilient: she survived three near-fatal accidents, and each time resumed her precarious career on the trapeze. ...troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly active.)
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• William Woodcock, Jr.
  ...fans, who enjoyed testing his historical knowledge of the American circus, and his encyclopedic command of the history of elephants in the United States&m ...eisty Babe would often say, "My family was in the circus when the Ringling brothers were still wearing wooden shoes."
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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• Circus Williams
  ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Gerd Siemoneit]].
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Lola Dobritch
  ...h;still a rare feat in her times—which, along with her natural grace and her use of a feather fan instead of an umbrella for balancing, won her to b ...dancer. She made her debut on the wire at age ten, in 1932, in the family circus.
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...asionally brought close to bankruptcy) by the larger-than-life personality and extravagant vision of its famous founder, Hans Stosch-Sarrasani. ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ==Aerialist, Acrobat, Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...st and a producer, spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
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• Anastasini Family
  ==Acrobats, Jugglers, Animal Trainers, Circus Owners== ...in the late 1800s as an equestrian, and in all probability, he was Sidonia and Antonia's brother. But that doesn't mean it was their actual family name.
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• John Herriott
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...ry 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota to Milton Lindsay Herriott (1901-1962) and his wife, Viola (1905-1981), née Engesser. John was the second of their tw
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...ife of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], and [[Jérôme Medrano]]. ...reign in January 1963 was an event attended by the Tout-Paris of the arts, and its demolition in December 1973 caused a massive uproar that eventually led
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• Kannan Bombayo
  ...ill, his name holds a major place in Indian circus lore and legend, and in circus history in general: Not only was Kannan Bombayo incontestably the best in h ...rayi Korumban, struggled as a small farmer, and was not connected with the circus. In India, children’s names are different from their father’s; Kannan B
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• Gene Mendez
  ...h a wonderful “Latino” temperament, he worked without a balancing pole and without a net, in the manner of low wire artists such as [[Con Colleano]]. ...in his mother’s apartment! He quickly developed a talent for the craft, and eventually participated in a televised talent show in Philadelphia, where [
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• Circus Krone
  =="Größter Circus Europas"== ...t circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.
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• Franz Althoff
  ==Gröẞter Rennbahn-Circus Europas== ...ee-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus.
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• Sarah Chapman
  ...Sarasota wants to run away and join the circus, it is relatively easy: The circus is all over the place! ...ademy, part of the Circus Arts Conservatory), and became a showgirl on the Ringling show.
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• Circus Ring of Fame
  ...umber of circuses and circus performers since [[The Ringling Brothers|John and Charles Ringing]] moved their winter quarters there in 1927. ...ircus arts appreciation community, who gather to honor the inductees, past and present.
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• Ethel Jennier
  ...watch. She left the orphanage at fourteen and went on to live with an aunt and uncle. ...ing else that rendered her "generally useful," as was what was expected of circus performers in those days.
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• Walter Jennier
  ...eorge Jennier and Cornelia (Nina) Howland Jennier, who performed in circus and variety venues. George Jennier’s family had changed their name from Hess ...e of her visits to her uncle. At that time, George performed a Risley act, and Nina was a songstress with various shows.
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