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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...feet) three-ring, four-pole big top that could seat 10,000 spectators. Its menagerie included a herd of 25 elephants, 160 horses, 74 wild animals (lions, tigers ...lieb Kreutzberg, who had been killed by his tigers. The so-formed Kludský menagerie became the Czech Kingdom’s largest (as reflected by contemporary posters)
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• New York Circuses
  ...had their moments of glory, and contributed greatly to the history of the American circus. ...West returns to his circus, where he produces a series of pantomimes with great success. (There is no known record of his performing there between these tw
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• Moira Orfei
  ...exclusive rights to the Italian tours of the [[Moscow Circus]] and for the American ice show ''Holiday On Ice''. Meanwhile, regular circus tours made Moira ext ...same year, they produced a superb seventeen-tiger act with the help of the great trainer [[Jean Michon]]. The act was presented by Walter's brother, [[Massi
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• The Togni Family
  The circus began to travel with a menagerie, which included tigers, lions, bears, elephants, and an important collectio ...llations and equipment, and some of the finest performers of the time. The great Dutch equestrian [[Albert Carré]] joined the circus in the winter with his
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...ne Lequesne, and Antoine Dantan—all artists of recognized talent and great reputation. The main frieze depicted the creation of the horse by Neptune, ...a on horseback [[Coralie Ducos]]; and the god of horsemanship himself, the great Baucher.
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...rcuses—it boosted a collection of eighty horses and its well-stocked menagerie included a group of five elephants. Harry Williams was an excellent and res ...follow in their footsteps. Circus Williams also traveled with an important menagerie, and Gunther began to develop an interest in big cats—as he did, actu
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• Charly Baumann
  Charly Baumann (1928-2001) was one of the great wild cat trainers of the second half of the twentieth century, a circus sta ...and he was drafted by the German Navy; he was subsequently captured by the American forces invading Germany, and interned in a prisoner camp installed on an ai
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• Alfred Court
  ...publicity. Until 1913, it offered remarkable circus programs that met with great success. But these programs, which changed regularly, were more expensive t ...rkus'' (with this German spelling), but everything came to naught when the Great War started in August 1914 after the assassination in Sarajevo of the Archd
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...chulz as a “honest and courageous guy, who had what it takes to become a great trainer.” ...ats when he helped re-capture a tiger that had escaped from the circus’s menagerie. The original trainer was fired, and replaced by the tiger trainer [[Gustav
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• The Indian Circus
  ===Chatre's Great Indian Circus, The First Indian Circus=== ...n the equestrian department as well. The first performance of Chatre’s ''Great Indian Circus'' was held on March 20, 1880 in the presence of a selected au
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• Giuseppe Chiarini
  ...ich could become ''Royal Spanish Circus'' when needed—was in fact an American enterprise based in California. A true circus man, Chiarini was indubitably ...e en 1710, aux Fuanmbules de Paris, par son Grand-père)" (''"The premier great mime-choreographic Chiarini company, created by his grandfather in 1710 at
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• The Samwell Family
  ...s a result of an accident by which an elephant that was part of the circus menagerie had to be killed. ...and there are some references to Leon appearing with ''Professor Samwell's Great Combination Circus and Animal Show'' in that country. By 1875 Leon was back
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• The Great Carmo
  ...etter known as "The Great Carmo," apart from a small volume entitled ''The Great Carmo, The Colossus of Mystery'', by magician and writer Val Andrews in 200 ...tion in the world of juggling; Victor’s son, [[Topper Martyn]], became a great comedy magician and juggler.) Then the Carmos, as Harry and Nellie’s act
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• Arturo Castilla
  ...id: The Spanish-American war over Cuba had occurred in 1898, and since the American entertainment behemoths visited Europe at the turn of the twentieth century The opportunity to create a truly "American-style" circus came in 1951, when Castilla booked Edward "Joe" Gray, a forme
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• Circus Medrano-Swoboda
  ...rano Sisters (Therese, Wanda, and Anita Swoboda), who performed one of the great equestrian acts of the period in top circuses and variety theaters all over ...sisters, Krimhilde (known as Tulli) was born July 17, 1935. She married an American, of whom little has been recorded.
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• Jenda Smaha
  ...963)]]Jenda’s grandfather, Joszi Vinicky, Sr., was born in the traveling menagerie business, and had worked as an elephant trainer with the legendary Czech ci ...er, an outstanding elephant trainer—and he worked as such in several American circuses. In 1961, the family went to work for Wilbur Deppe’s newly creat
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...''circus''. In 1793, Hughes went to perform to the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia; that same year, one of his pupils, British eques ===The American Traveling Circus===
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• James Washington Myers
  ...came a very successful circus impresario in Europe—where the ''Great American Circus'' he created there toured extensively, and where he even established ...ociation with [[Seth B. Howes]] (1815-1901)—himself a pioneer of the American traveling circus and a former associate of Aaron Turner. This combine was s
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• Circus Williams
  Since the Middle Ages, there had been a great tradition of Jewish itinerant entertainers. Many of them originated circus ...arola Williams were back in business as soon as June 1945 with their own ''Great Circus Williams Show''—whose grand English title was indeed brand new
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...esentations, which were much ahead of their time, have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...r was born Jeanne Bidel and was the daughter of the famous cat trainer and menagerie owner François Bidel (1839-1909). Thus, although the Houckes and Rancys we
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...ts and animals performed on three rings simultaneously, the huge traveling menagerie filled with an extensive collection of exotic animals, all that made indeed ...added the Czech [[Cirkus Kludsky|Kludsky]], who also had its roots in the menagerie business.)
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• John Herriott
  ...animal trainer and circus owner, third-generation of one of the few truly American circus dynasties. He was born on January 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota t ...the Miller Brothers’ [[101 Ranch Wild West Show]], the last of the great American Wild West shows, which toured the United States from 1907 to 1939.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...ken leg and a broken arm, Louis was forced to abandon bareback riding. The great Equestrian Master [[François Baucher]] (1796-1873), who was Dejean’s equ ...ugh to accommodate the fair’s booths and carousels, and even a traveling menagerie, but not a circus tent. Luckily, Fernando found an empty lot at the corner
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• Franz Czeisler (Tihany)
  ...t his first one in a visiting traveling circus, working as a helper in the menagerie. Franz "Tihany" Czeisler had two great qualities, essential to succeed in show business: An engaging personality a
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• The Kornilov Dynasty
  ...exception that confirms the rule: Since 1929, they have not only been the great Russian elephant-training specialists, but they also have been among the wo ...the great port city on the Volga river, where he discovered the traveling menagerie of Ivan Lazarevich Filatov (1873-1956)—the father of the legendary Ru
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• Circus Krone
  ...s of quality initiated by its founder, Carl Krone, as well as its original menagerie’s heritage. Its tours in many European countries, especially between the ...n audiences to their first three-ring circus traveling with a full-fledged menagerie.
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...ded ornaments by Etienne Cornellier (1837-1902), floral decorations by the great specialist of the genre, Eugène Petit (1839-1886), and eleven frescoes dep ...hat the Nouveau Cirque offered its spectators, with lovely naiads having a great time and boisterous clowns falling into the water with a big splash.
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• Franz Althoff
  ...hat era to develop an acceptable compromise between the grandiosity of the American-style three-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional ...well as his genial personality, helped him close important deals with the American movie industry. A remarkably gifted animal trainer, he created spectacular
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• Alexandre Palisse
  ...by Ernest Grenier (1855-1920), which presented a mixture of short films (a great novelty then) and variety acts. Adrienne Grenier (1882-1959), the owner's d ...ing under canvas were generally seen as second-rate. Even though the giant American circus [[Barnum & Bailey]] had made a strong impression in the French provi
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• Pablo Noel
  ...en he lost his mother; he was adopted by Louis Bouillon, a cat trainer and menagerie owner better known as [[Ivanoff]], in whose family he grew up. ...|left|280px|Ivanoff (c.1935)]]The territory covered by Ivanoff's traveling menagerie encompassed the south of France, Spain, and North Africa, where its owner w
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