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  '''John Lawson's''' Circus [http://www.johnlawsonscircus.co.uk/ www.johnlawsonscirc ...ng Museum of Art (''USA'') [http://www.ringling.org/CircusMuseums.aspx www.ringling.org/CircusMuseums.aspx]
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• Barry Lubin
  ...r the show's Clown Alley, principally taught its students how to become a "Ringling clown," able to work efficiently in the specific context of ''The Greatest ...|Barry Lubin?Grandma (2011]]Barry created his ''Grandma'' character at the Ringling Bros. winter quarters in Venice, Florida. Not strong on physical skills, Ba
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• New York Circuses
  ...nce has been by and large completely forgotten. Yet, from the ''Circus'' [[John Bill Ricketts]] erected in Philadelphia in 1793, to New York's ''Hippotheat - British equestrian John Bill Ricketts, who had just opened the first circus in America—in Phi
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• Miss Mara
  ...ing North]], and in October of the same year, she signed a contract with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', then in ...States in April 1951, where she would eventually spend six years with the Ringling show. There she would reunite with her friend, Pinito del Oro. On September
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...alacios]], with triple-somersaulter [[Lalo Palacio]], were starring in the Ringling show, and the triple, still a rarity at the time, became Tito's goal. He ca ...978, becoming the leading star act of the circus's Blue Unit. In 1974, the Ringling show featured two Flying Gaonas acts: the original one and a second troupe
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...brated clown [[Lou Jacobs]] (1903-1992), was for decades associated with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], where he performed from 1925 to 1985. Her moth In 1948, Jean ran away and joined the circus. She became a showgirl with the Ringling Bros. This was still the era of the giant traveling big tops and circus tra
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• Darix Togni
  ...presented him with a group of horses; and circus luminaries such as [[John Ringling North]], [[Arturo Castilla]], [[Joseph Bouglione]], and [[Cyril Mills]] wer
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...e]] in 1979 and spent the following year somersaulting over elephants at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. In 1981, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]], w Jeff's first experience as a clown had come as part of the Ringling show, but he felt much more comfortable in the intimate, one-ring European
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• Alberto Zoppé
  ...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 ...s in the 1948 Ringling production, conceived by Broadway director-producer John Murray Anderson, and designed by the legendary Miles White (''Oklahoma'', '
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• David Larible
  ...y, where they played a large sport arena. [[Kenneth Feld]], the owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], who had seen David in Monte Carlo, flew to Mex ...th Ringling (1997)]]Beginning in 1991, David will stay fourteen years with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, succeeding the legendary [[Gunther Gebel William
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• Harold Alzana
  ...Alzana was, from the late forties to the mid-sixties, a star fixture of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey]] Circus. His daredevil manner—working on ...potential in Harold Alzana, and the act was booked for the 1947 season of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth''.
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  By 1967, [[John Ringling North]], the owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], had lost interest in his circus. On November 1 ...bleached-blond Siegfried in spangled costumes, designed by the flamboyant Ringling costumier, Don Foote. Gunther’s talent and charisma, and his sheer joy of
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• Charly Baumann
  ...er existing tiger groups, including one from [[John Ringling North]] for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, but Baumann’s asking price was to hig ...hn Ringling North offered him once again to come to the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This time, the price was right. In spite
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• Alfred Court
  ...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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• Daniel Suskov
  ..., and trained a group of exotic animals. It is during this engagement with Ringling that his daughter, Sandrine, debuted as an animal trainer in her own right. ...d to [[Tarzan Zerbini]]. He will also present a group of white tigers from John Cuneo’s breeding farm.
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...was motivated by the fact that he had received a timely offer from [[John Ringling North]] to go to the United States and work with all his animals on ''The G ...thumb|right|380px|Fritz, Damoo Dhotre, Court, and Willy Storey (c.1945)]][[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]’s new show debuted at New York's Madison Squa
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• Maryse Begary
  ...udia Cardinale) in Henry Hathaway’s ''Circus World'' (1964), co-starring John Wayne, and shot at [[Circus Franz Althoff]]—a movie that has kept on ...van (1962)]]In 1958 and 1959 Maryse Begary was in the United States with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, the featured performer of a spectacular
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• Bertram Mills
  ...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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• Cyril Mills
  ...tinent (following the disappointing news that [[The Ringling Brothers|John Ringling]] couldn’t bring over from America ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' to fill ...ip of his foot to his head while balancing on a unicycle; [[Little John]] (John Seidel), the twelve-year-old Danish Boy-Wonder equilibrist; [[Con Colleano]
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• Con Colleano
  ...h the great Ringling circus as its center-ring attraction. His salary with Ringling went up each season, so that by the late 1930s, he was earning $1,000 per w At the end of their 1955 engagement with the Ringling Circus, Con and his wife returned to Australia but their attempt to settle
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• May Wirth
  ...rn on June 6, 1894 at Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the sout ...al trick rider." In Melbourne in 1906, aged twelve, she was billed as "May Ringling," the "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit''
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• Norman Barrett
  ...ills Circus was the [[The Hagenbeck Family|Hagenbeck]]-trained Austrian, [[John Gindl]], who developed Norman’s grounding in the training and presentatio ...er, chimpanzee expert [[Rudy Lenz]], with whom she spent many years with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States—where Sue and
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...of 2012), was created by Miguel Caceres in 1982 for the 112th Edition of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus. Born in Paz de Rio, Colombia on Decembe ...can become quite confusing), and within a few months, they were hired by [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. The Flying Segreras, with Miguel as their main
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• Arturo Castilla
  ...als a constellation of great equestrians ([[The Carré Dynasty|Carré]], [[John Gindl|Gindl]], [[The Mullens Family|Mullens]], [[The Picard Troupe|Picard]] ...c American circus posters (with the notable use of the attractive faces of Ringling’s iconic clowns [[Paul Jung]] and [[Lou Jacobs]])—developing a styl
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• Ali Hassani
  ...ited States, at the Stardust Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and later with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]'s ''Greatest Show on Earth''. That same year, the Hassani Troupe were cast in John Glen’s James Bond film, ''Octopussy'' (released in1983), which marked the
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• Nadia Houcke
  In 1954, she was signed by [[John Ringling North]] to be featured in the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] show, where she remained until 1956—the l
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...s most prestigious circuses, and had been a center-ring headliner with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States for seven consecuti ...]]’s talent scouts, who offered her a contract in the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth''.
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• Jenda Smaha
  ...'' at the [[Circus World Museum]] in Baraboo, Wisconsin—in the old [[Ringling Bros. Circus]] winter quarters—and they settled in this history-rich ...fifties. Jenda presented Bertha in the Circus World Museum show, and when John Ascuaga’s Nugget Hotel & Casino in Sparks, Nevada, purchased the elephant
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• Isabella Nock
  ...n Europe’s major circuses in the 1970-80s, and was a featured act with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States, where she and her ...la Nock—the most glamorous member of the family, who was billed with Ringling Bros. as "Europe’s Golden Goddess of the Swinging Trapeze."
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...etersburg, Russia; that same year, one of his pupils, British equestrian [[John Bill Ricketts]] (1769-1802), opened the first circus in the United States, [[File:Ringling_Program_Cover_1940.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on tour (1940)]]In 1825, [[Joshuah Purdy B
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• Circus Williams
  ...a talented cat trainer and, like Gunther, a center-ring attraction with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States. Baumann found his ...s, in major Italian sport arenas. (Chances that an American circus such as Ringling would visit Franco’s Spain were rather slim!)
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• Unus
  ...most famous hand balancer in the circus business, thanks notably to [[John Ringling North]], who made him a true circus star in the United States and, conseque ...Circus Knie. According to North, Unus showed no interest in working for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], and the first meetings he had with the hand ba
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...l Krone]], colleagues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]].
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ..., who had just replaced the legendary [[Merle Evans]] at the helm of the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus’s band. Finally, Struppi chose "Tatjan ...ad done with his tiger riding an elephant, and which he performed with the Ringling show which he had joined in 1970. The difference here was that Struppi was
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• John Herriott
  ...ndsay Herriott (1901-1962) and his wife, Viola (1905-1981), née Engesser. John was the second of their two children; he had an elder sister, Jean. ...hn_and_Milton_Herriott.jpg|thumb|left|250px|John & Milt Herriott (c.1950)]]John Herriott’s grandfather was Osmer Pike Herriott (1871-1936), who is said t
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...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 ...and agent. At the outbreak of WWII, Jérôme would send Vasconcellos to [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States, where the famous e
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• Kannan Bombayo
  ...z]], who was taking over the circus from the ailing and cash-strapped John Ringling. ...rk. After a twelve-day crossing, they arrived in Manhattan in time for the Ringling opening at [[Madison Square Garden]], scheduled on April 13, 1932.
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• Circus Krone
  ...a sealion trainer. (Their son, Adolf Frohn, Jr. (1904-1955), joined the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in 1945 before settling in Marineland, F ...ent that housed three rings interspersed with two stages, like the giant [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] in the United States. But the show format began
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• Dolly Jacobs Interview Video (2018)
  ...ohn and Mabel Ringling Museum of Arts) in Sarasota (2018) — ''© The Ringling''
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• Franz Althoff
  ...o Henry Hathaway. ''Circus World'' was to feature three major movie stars: John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth. Bronston needed a fully functio ...ntion his children Harry and Marianne, who stood in for the stars (notably John Smith and Claudia Cardinale) in dangerous circus stunts. The filming starte
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• Sarah Chapman
  ...ing Brothers|Charles]]. After the Florida land-boom collapse of 1927, John Ringling brought to the city his giant circus’s winter-quarters. As a result, Sara ...ademy, part of the Circus Arts Conservatory), and became a showgirl on the Ringling show.
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• Barbette
  Staged by John Murray Anderson, ''Jumbo'' (which became a film directed by Charles Walters [[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
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• Circus Ring of Fame
  ...ant number of circuses and circus performers since [[The Ringling Brothers|John and Charles Ringing]] moved their winter quarters there in 1927. ...hoto of the Inductees (2022)|400px|left]]Sarasota was the winter home of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey]] Circus, as well as home to several other circuses
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