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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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• Con Colleano
  ...rt biographical note, that: "I gained my first experience in my father’s circus touring Australia and did my first act at the age of three, an act consisti ...s. Old Con seems to have made up his mind to get his family started in the circus business, a hard life—but a lucrative one if a family of performers c
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• Leonid Engibarov
  ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...he ringmaster in the circus ring, or [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the central Soviet circus organization, in real life. In this, he embodied the moods of a new Soviet
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• Norman Barrett
  ...man Barrett has become the most loved and best known circus personality in Great Britain—regarded as "The World’s Greatest Ringmaster," and dubbed b ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• The Rastellis
  ...continents, performing in the most prestigious venues of the international circus and variety scene. ...ry thorough and complete training within his family—like all Italian circus kids—became a solo contortionist, and occasionally appeared as a bare
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• Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe
  ...obatic Theater followed the same development pattern. Whereas European and American circuses were in a constant search for novelties and new techniques (driven ...ding a spectacular acrobatic version of ''Swan Lake'' that has toured with great success all over the world.
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• The Great Carmo
  ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...gedy. He might also be considered the man who launched the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] on its first tour, having had a short connection with [[Bertram Mills|Ber
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...evements were the introduction of theatrical aesthetics into the traveling circus performance, a modern approach to public relations and marketing, his fores
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• Circus Medrano-Swoboda
  .... The name of that circus was homonymous to that of the legendary Parisian circus, but had no connection with it. It was “the other Medrano”—and st ...t and although they didn’t come from a circus family, they owned a small circus that traveled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They always called Ludwig, wh
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• Marthe and Juliette Vesque
  ==Circus Memorialists== ...perhaps the most remarkable visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century.
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• Oliver Groszer
  ...g at age fourteen, when he took theater classes in boarding school with an American teacher, Keith LeFever. (It is while playing Romeo, in Shakespeare’s ''Ro ...and the troupe would have a significant aesthetical influence on the "New Circus" movement.
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• Rob Torres
  ...rres_Cole_Bros.jpeg|thumb|left|400px|Rob Torres at Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus (c.1993)]]While in high school, he was a member of the cross-country track ...Upon graduation, he toured for three years with [[Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus]], where he honed his comedic skills in front of large audiences and develo
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• The Aragón Family
  ...has produced five generations of funnymen, some of whom have become major circus stars in Spain as well as abroad: Pompoff y Thedy, arguably the greatest Sp ...05, and her family had been playing the fairgrounds long before the modern circus was created by [[Philip Astley]] in 1770. Gabriel and Virginie had fifteen
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...by Faye Moses (who was to marry [[Hugo Zacchini]]). Faye had trained in a circus program that existed then at Florida State University in Tallahassee, and s ...for Terry, the diminutive of her second name, Teresa.) She worked in every circus discipline, on the ground and in the air, including tumbling and high wire.
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...d been a center-ring headliner with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States for seven consecutive seasons. She was also courageous ...troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly active.)
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• Jenda Smaha
  ...iners of his generation. Although he came from a well-established European circus family, he spent most of his career on stage in the United States, working ...enda, was the son of Antonin and Ingebord Vinicky. His father was a famous circus equestrian known in the business as [[Toni Smaha]] (1908-1986), and his mo
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• William Woodcock, Jr.
  ...circus fans, who enjoyed testing his historical knowledge of the American circus, and his encyclopedic command of the history of elephants in the United Sta ...sconsin in 1854. As the feisty Babe would often say, "My family was in the circus when the Ringling brothers were still wearing wooden shoes."
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• Circus Schumann (Frankfurt)
  The Circus-Theater Albert Schumann (also known as ''Circus Schumann'', and later, ''Schumann Theater'') stood in Frankfurt am Main, Ge ===The Circus-Theater Albert Schumann===
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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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