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• Erhard and Christiane Samel
  ...ould add two ligers (a cross between a lion and a tiger), a black leopard, and finally, a boa to this rather varied jungle family. ...t [[Circus Busch|Zirkus Busch-Berlin]], where she and her husband, worked, and became increasingly involved with the care of their animals, until she even
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• Rogana
  ...ved 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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• The Rogge Sisters
  ...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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• The Flying Caceres
  ...and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...eras, with Miguel as their main flyer, participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1977.
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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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• Liaoning Acrobatic Troupe
  ...forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards ...e Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Udarma
  ...contortion: In this remote Asian country (located between Russian Siberia and China), contortionists endowed with spiritual significance their unique abi Udarma went to work with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] in the United States in 1988. In 1990, she participated in the [[Festival
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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. ...working for the Ringling organization, with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' and other Ringling-owned circuses, for nearly half a century.
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• Freddy Osler
  ...Observatory, Cape Town, which defined the South African school of flyers, and produced most of them.) ...]] (catcher). There were not many great flying acts in Europe at the time, and the Flying Oslers began an impressive career that led them to practically a
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...flyers of all time. A diminutive, eye-catching woman with a girlish charm and a luminous smile, she was for twenty-three years a headliner in Las Vegas, ..., born in 1949; the twins Maureen (Moe) and Marlene (Molli), born in 1951; and Darlene (Terry), the youngest.
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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 ...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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• Isabella Nock
  ...secutive seasons. Her heel catches on her swinging trapeze bar, barefooted and scantily clad in a sparkling bikini, made her act memorable wherever she wo ...) were originally itinerant rope-dancers, who performed on village squares and fairgrounds, their ropes strung between church spires or above the open-air
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• Lillian Leitzel Outdoors Video (c1928)
  ...in a publicity stunt in Chicago for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus. (c.1928) — ''"The Crimson Petal" (by Fred Jewell), Lillian Leitzel's
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• The Suarez Troupe
  ...e years, as members of his family got married and occasional partners came and went, the composition of the troupe changed. His daughter Martha, a gifted ...West''. Enrique, Jr., has since become a major equestrian star of his own, and was featured for several seasons with the equestrian hit show, [[Cavalia]].
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• Julius Gleich
  ==Circus Owner== ...existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the early 1930s, one of the largest and most popular traveling circuses in Europe. It was emblematic of an era when
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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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• Trevor Bale Video 1955
  ...hosting with Trevor's kids, [[Elvin Bale|Elevin]], [[Gloria Bale|Gloria]], and Nita (1955)
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• Trevor Bale
  ...Video_1955|Trevor Bale, tiger act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) File:Trevor_and_Gloria_Bale_1955.jpeg|Trevor and Gloria Bale (1955)
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• Justino Loyal Troupe Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. [[Emmett Kelly]], standing next to the ring
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• Justino Loyal
  ...Loyal Troupe, Bareback Riding Act]] at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Loyal, Justino]][[Category:Equestrians|Loyal Justino]][[Category:Jocke
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• Tonito Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. (1955)
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• Tonito
  ...1955|Tonito, tight wire (excerpt)]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Tonito]][[Category:Acrobats|Tonito]][[Category:Tight Wire|Tonito]]
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• Hugo Schmidt Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. The announcer heard in the clip is Charlton
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• Hugo Schmidt
  ...o and Roman Schmidt, elephant act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Schmidt, Hugo]][[Category:Animal Trainers|Schmidt, Hugo]][[Category:El
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• Camillio Mayer
  ...—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly [[The Triska Troupe]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer. ...o be French, and was due to return sooner or later to the motherland—and French-born Alsatians continued to consider themselves French, ethnically a
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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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• Francis Brunn Video (1955)
  ...ersion of the act he performed with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, before he re-staged it with his signature "Flamenco" presentation (1955)
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• Mayya Panfilova
  ...cats made their professional debuts in 2001 in an edition of the [[Moscow Circus]] On Ice. ...he Grand Country Music-Hall in Branson, Missouri, among many other venues, and on television on ''The Tonight Show'' with Jay Leno.
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• Mayya Panfilova Video (2012)
  ...anfilova, house cats act (excerpts), at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2012)
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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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• La Toria Video (c.1965)
  ...ky Unus), Roman rings (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (c.1965)
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• Victoria Unus (La Toria)
  ...eo_(c.1965)|La Toria, Roman rings]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (c.1965) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Unus, Victoria]][[Category:Aerialists|Unus, Victoria]][[Category:Roman
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• The Dobrich Family
  ==Acrobats, Circus Owners and Directors== ...n. He was also a writer and magazine editor, and he wrote two books on the circus that were published soon after his death.
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• Unus
  ...he man who stands on his forefinger," a feat he performed with outstanding and—to this day—unmatched showmanship. ...ears, he had developed a taste for acrobatics, and notably hand balancing, and he had a natural flair for performing. Soon, he realized that he could make
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• Pepe Silva
  ...m Dougherty, piano warmup reprise]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2009) * Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_RBBB_Video_(2012)|Pepe Silva and Tom Dougherty, clown reprises]], at Cirque Arlette Gruss (2012)
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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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• Rose Gold
  ...nce and a charm that stirred unbridled enthusiasm among circus aficionados and journalists alike. ...in gymnastics. When Walt Disney released his animated movie, ''Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs'' in 1937, her father nicknamed Rosemarie, ''Snow White'':
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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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• Loyal Repenski Jockey Video (1930-40)
  ...ky Troupe, jockey act (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the 1930-40s. (''The "wandering screen" effect is due to the fact that t
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• Loyal Repensky Troupe
  ...Loyal Repensky Troupe, jockey act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930-40s) ...roupe, ''Tally Hoe'' carriage act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930-40s)
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• Loyal Repensky Tally Hoe Video (c1935)
  ...Hoe'' equestriasn act (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the 1930-40s. (''The "wandering screen" effect is due to the fact that t
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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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