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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1964.jpg
    Program cover illustrated by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1964-1965 season at Olympia, featuring the pickpocket [[Borra]], the eque * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,085 × 1,500 (856 KB)) - 00:07, 28 January 2016
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 62.jpg
    Program cover by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1962-1963 season at Olympia, featuring the clown [[Jacko Fossett]], the [ * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,096 × 1,500 (1.03 MB)) - 20:50, 14 October 2022
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 63.jpg
    Program cover by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1963-1964 at Olympia, featuring [[Rudy Lenz]]'s chimpanzees, the [[Flying * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,089 × 1,500 (995 KB)) - 00:37, 9 July 2013
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 66.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's last season at Olympia (1966-1967) — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,073 × 1,500 (896 KB)) - 22:03, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1949.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1949-1950 season at Olympia, featuring the clowns [[Coco]] and [[Percy Hu * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,130 × 1,500 (929 KB)) - 00:41, 9 July 2013
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1953.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1953-1954 season at Olympia, featuring Sciplini's chimpanzees. — '' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,279 × 1,500 (1.03 MB)) - 22:11, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1958-1.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1958-1959 season at Olympia, featuring animal trainer Eugen Weidmann &mda * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,314 × 1,500 (1.04 MB)) - 22:14, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1965.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1965-1966 season at Olympia, featuring the clown Percy Huxter — ''D * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Flyer.jpg
    Advertising leaflet for the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, featuring the clowns Francescos (1959). — ''Dominique Jan * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,500 × 946 (648 KB)) - 22:38, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 47.jpg
    Cover program for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1947 tour. The circus's colors, red and green, are predominantly displayed. — ''Dominique J * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 61.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1961 tour, featuring the clowns [[Coco]], [[Jackie Sloan]], and [[Little * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,124 × 1,500 (1.2 MB)) - 00:21, 18 October 2022
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 63.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1963 tour. — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,094 × 1,500 (918 KB)) - 22:34, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1951 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1951-1952 season at Olympia, featuring the clown Percy Huxter — ''D * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1954 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1954 tour — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1957 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1957 tour — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (974 × 1,500 (421 KB)) - 22:45, 21 October 2010
  • Bertram Mills Circus
    * A. Stanley Williamson, ''On The Road With Bertram Mills'' (London, Chatto & Windus, 1937) * Robert Aylwin, ''The Bertram Mills Book Of The Circus'' (London, Naldrett, 1954)
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Olympia 1927.jpg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, London, season 1927-28 — ''Private Collection'' Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Program 1929-30.JPG
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at the Kensington Olympia in London, featuring Adele Nelson's elephants, 19 * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,157 × 1,500 (707 KB)) - 19:53, 6 December 2012
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus program 1951.jpeg
    Program cover for the 1951-52 Jubilee Season of Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, (1951) — ''Dominique Jando Archive'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,338 × 1,500 (2.21 MB)) - 19:38, 29 May 2018
  • Bertram Mills Circus Video (1946)
    British Pathé newsreel announcing the reopening of Bertram Mills Circus in Windsor after World War II (1946) — ''Document: British Pathé'' * Biography: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Katja Schumann
    ...Denmark, to one of the circus world's oldest and most respected families. Circus lore attaches the Schumanns first to Berlin, then to Denmark. Although the ...rkus Schumann]], Katja made her first appearance in the ring of the family circus at age 10, as a ballerina on horseback. She subsequently worked in her fami
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  • Flying Gaonas
    ...some legitimacy, the Flying Gaonas. And indeed, this has happened. To the circus world, however, there has been one and only one Flying Gaonas: the act in w Victor Gaona Murillo (1925-2016) was born to an old, prolific Mexican circus family that traces its roots to the Circo Gaona y León, created in 1891 by
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  • File:Paulina Schumann-Bertram Mills 1960.jpg
    ...in her signature exit, at the end of her high-school act at Bertram Mills' Circus, at the Olympia of Kensington in London (1960) — ''Photo ADP, Dominiq
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  • Paulina Schumann
    ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes. In the 1930s, the Rivels toured Europe, appearing in virtually every circus and variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed h
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  • Charlie Rivel
    ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons. ...s, the brothers began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acroba
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  • The Knie Dynasty
    ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...d be at the origin of one of the world's most prestigious and long-lasting circus dynasties. Born in Erfurt and nineteen years old, the young Friedrich left
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  • File:Yvonne Berman at Olympia.jpg
    Yvonne Berman and her tigers at [[Bertram Mills' Circus]] in London, 1966 — ''Photo X''
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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 ...of the monumental [[Circus Busch]] in Berlin, and had reigned over a vast circus empire that included circuses in Altona, Hamburg, Breslau, and Vienna, and
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  • The Codonas
    ...Rabenalt’s ''Die drei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. Alfredo (1893-1937) and Abelardo ("Lalo," 1895-1951) Codona were born into a circus family. Their grandfather, Henry, came from a long line of Scottish showmen
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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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  • File:Bertram Mills Cigarette Card.jpg
    ...as a Horse Show judge; but the circus background on the card indicates his circus activities. — ''Private Collection'' * Biography: [[Bertram Mills]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills.jpg
    Bertram Mills (1923) as he appeared in Bertram Mills Circus souvenir program in 1923 and for many years — ''Document: Dominique J * Biography: [[Bertram Mills]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills in (c.1935).jpg
    Bertram W. Mills, circa 1935. This picture appeared on the Bertram Mills Circus souvenir programs after his death. — ''Photo Vandyk, London (Don Stac * Biography: [[Bertram Mills]]
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  • Cyril Mills
    ==Circus Owner and Director== ...ir Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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  • File:Bernard and Cyril Mills .jpg
    Bernard and Cyril Mills in their office trailer at the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (c.1950) — ''Photo: Don Stacey Collection'' * Biography: [[Cyril Mills]]
    (1,172 × 1,500 (679 KB)) - 23:11, 20 October 2010
  • File:Cyril & Bernard Mills with Elizabeth II .jpg
    ...Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Ann and Prince Charles to the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] at Olympia in London (c.1955) — ''Photo: Don Stacey Collection'' * Biography: [[Cyril Mills]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills at Olympia 1937.jpg
    ...was probably taken on opening day, December 22, 1937, a few months before Mills' death. — ''Photo: Don Stacey Collection'' * Biography: [[Bertram Mills]]
    (1,500 × 1,255 (639 KB)) - 23:49, 20 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1964.jpg
    Program cover illustrated by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1964-1965 season at Olympia, featuring the pickpocket [[Borra]], the eque * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,085 × 1,500 (856 KB)) - 00:07, 28 January 2016
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 62.jpg
    Program cover by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1962-1963 season at Olympia, featuring the clown [[Jacko Fossett]], the [ * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,096 × 1,500 (1.03 MB)) - 20:50, 14 October 2022
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 63.jpg
    Program cover by Leon Crossley for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1963-1964 at Olympia, featuring [[Rudy Lenz]]'s chimpanzees, the [[Flying * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,089 × 1,500 (995 KB)) - 00:37, 9 July 2013
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 66.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's last season at Olympia (1966-1967) — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,073 × 1,500 (896 KB)) - 22:03, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1949.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1949-1950 season at Olympia, featuring the clowns [[Coco]] and [[Percy Hu * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,130 × 1,500 (929 KB)) - 00:41, 9 July 2013
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1953.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1953-1954 season at Olympia, featuring Sciplini's chimpanzees. — '' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,279 × 1,500 (1.03 MB)) - 22:11, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1958-1.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1958-1959 season at Olympia, featuring animal trainer Eugen Weidmann &mda * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,314 × 1,500 (1.04 MB)) - 22:14, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus 1965.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1965-1966 season at Olympia, featuring the clown Percy Huxter — ''D * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,081 × 1,500 (815 KB)) - 22:17, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Flyer.jpg
    Advertising leaflet for the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, featuring the clowns Francescos (1959). — ''Dominique Jan * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,500 × 946 (648 KB)) - 22:38, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 47.jpg
    Cover program for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1947 tour. The circus's colors, red and green, are predominantly displayed. — ''Dominique J * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (951 × 1,500 (738 KB)) - 22:24, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 61.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1961 tour, featuring the clowns [[Coco]], [[Jackie Sloan]], and [[Little * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,124 × 1,500 (1.2 MB)) - 00:21, 18 October 2022
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Tour 63.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1963 tour. — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,094 × 1,500 (918 KB)) - 22:34, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1951 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1951-1952 season at Olympia, featuring the clown Percy Huxter — ''D * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (960 × 1,484 (345 KB)) - 22:37, 21 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1954 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1954 tour — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Prog. 1957 s.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1957 tour — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (974 × 1,500 (421 KB)) - 22:45, 21 October 2010
  • File:Centre Circus 1978-1.jpg
    Program cover for the Centre Circus, the last show in which Cyril Bertram Mills was involved (1978). — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Biography: [[Cyril Mills]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills 25-26 .jpg
    ...g equestrienne May Wirth, and Captain Alfred Schneider's 70 lions. Bertram Mills's name was not yet prominently displayed. — ''Dominique Jando Collect * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills 26-27.jpg
    .... The name of Bertram Mills was beginning to appear prominently above the "Circus at Olympia" title. — ''Victoria and Albert Museum, Theatre and Perfor * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills 1938.jpg
    Bertram Mills Circus poster for its 1939 tour, featuring Koringa, "The Only Female Fakir in the * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Poster - Olympia 1928.jpeg
    Poster for the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia (1928) — ''Victoria and Albert Museum, Theatre and Perform * [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Olympia 1950.jpg
    Program cover, featuring "Negus, the wire-walking lion," Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, 1950/1951 season — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
    (1,144 × 1,500 (1.11 MB)) - 01:42, 30 October 2010
  • File:Bertram Mills Olympia 1946.jpg
    Program cover, Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, 1946-1947 Season — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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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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  • May Wirth
    ...Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the southwest coast of Africa) ...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
    Over many years, Norman Barrett has become the most loved and best known circus personality in Great Britain—regarded as "The World’s Greatest Ring ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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  • Charlie Cairoli
    ...ed period of forty years, from 1939 through 1979, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most po ...an old French circus family of Italian origins—like so many ancient circus families anywhere else in the world. As for [[Jean-Marie Cairoli]] (1879-1
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  • Rogana
    ...ters had 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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  • Bertram Mills Circus
    * A. Stanley Williamson, ''On The Road With Bertram Mills'' (London, Chatto & Windus, 1937) * Robert Aylwin, ''The Bertram Mills Book Of The Circus'' (London, Naldrett, 1954)
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  • The Rogge Sisters
    ...ters had 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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  • Emmerich Ankner
    ...y with the rank of Captain, and he would be often billed in his subsequent circus career as "Captain Ankner." ...em to [[The Great Carmo|Harry Carmo]] for his newly formed Great Carmo’s Circus in Ireland—and thus Ankner became the Equestrian Director of the Carm
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  • The Great Carmo
    ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...ls]] and his two sons in 1929, prior to the appearance of the full-fledged Mills tenting show in 1930.
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  • File:Carmo tenting circus + queue.jpg
    ...intly by Harry Carmo and [[Cyril Mills|Cyril]] and [[Cyril Mills|Bernard]] Mills (1929) — ''Photo © David Jamieson Collection'' * Biographies: [[The Great Carmo]], [[Cyril Mills]]
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  • File:Carmo tenting circus payboxes.jpg
    The Great Carmo Circus's box office, during its association with Bertram Mills (1929) — ''Photo © David Jamieson Collection'' [[Category:Photo Archive|Carmo Circus]]
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  • Lilly Yokoi
    ...Japanese descent, she was born in New York City in 1929, into a family of circus performers. Her parents, Eizo and Rui Yokoi, were acrobats on unicycle and ..., [[Cirkus Berny]] in Norway, [[Cirkus Schumann]] in Denmark and Sweden, [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland (in 1959 and 1975), among others. In variety, she was
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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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  • Ali Hassani
    ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ...pted England. Yet, this highly respected artist and impresario came to the circus quite by accident, and in very unusual circumstances.
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  • Nadia Houcke
    ...d circus director, [[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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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Olympia 1927.jpg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, London, season 1927-28 — ''Private Collection'' Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • The Andreu-Rivels
    ...Pedro and Juan began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acroba ...name Boby) and Polo performed their first clown entrée in the new family circus.
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  • The Charlivels
    ...(Oftentimes, what seems spectacular on the stage loses its efficiency in a circus ring, which is a far more challenging performing space.) ...[[The Andreu-Rivels]], Charlie Rivel’s family act, with [[Bertram Mills Circus]]; and Valentino in Brussels. They all began performing at a tender age, wo
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  • File:Nadia Houcke at Bertram Mills Circus.jpeg
    Nadia Houcke presenting a liberty act at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (1962) — ''Photo X''
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  • Don Saunders
    ...French television show [[''La Piste aux Étoiles'']] and himself a former circus and variety performer (with a legendary musical act in which no music was e ...nt, and more precisely the type of visual comedy that was performed in the circus or on the music-hall stages.
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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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  • Bob Gerry Troupe
    ...Gerry Troupe was one of the most successful high wire acts on the European circus scene in the late forties, fifties, and early sixties. Starting in 1945, th ...ertram Mills Circus]] at Olympia and the [[Harringay Circus]] in London; [[Circus Strassburger]] in Holland. They also appeared outdoors in several amusement
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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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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus Program 1929-30.JPG
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at the Kensington Olympia in London, featuring Adele Nelson's elephants, 19 * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Coco
    ...n iconic figure of Britain’s premier circus at the time, [[Bertram Mills Circus]]. In addition to his professional work, he was also noted for his charitab ...taly Lazarenko]] (1890-1939), a clown and acrobat who would become a major circus star in the Soviet Union after the Communist revolution.
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  • File:Bertram Mills at Murrayfield (1957).jpg
    Bertram Mills Circus at Murrayfield in Edinburgh (1957) — ''Photo © Danny Callaghan'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Coco and Montgomery.jpg
    ...n singer and actress Constance Moore, at the opening show of Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia in 1955. — ''Photo X''
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  • File:Jackie Sloan, Coco, Little Billy and Nikki (1958).jpg
    ...loan, Little Billy, Nikki, and Coco, in a water entrée at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] at London's Olympia (1958) — ''Photo X''
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  • File:Coco and his Children .jpg
    ...chael (in makeup), and his daughters Helen and Olga on the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] lot (c.1935) — ''Photo X''
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  • File:Coco Safety Award.jpg
    Bertram Mills Circus promotional "Road Safety Award" button featuring Coco (c.1960) — ''Pr * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Coco.jpg
    Coco on the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] lot (c.1950) — ''Photo X''
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  • Tini Berman
    ...South Holland, in the Netherlands, to a family that was not related to the circus. As a young woman, Tini went on to work as a stenographer at the Dutch Defe ...the traditional winter season of [[Circus Strassburger]] in the legendary "circus-theater." The polar bears belonged to the Klant Zoo, created by [[Willy Hag
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  • The Caroli Troupe
    File:Mills_Program_1959.png|Bertram Mills Circus program cover (1959)
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  • File:Emmerich Ankner (c.1928).jpg
    ...Bertram Mills]]. The caption, written by the painter, poster designer, and circus chronicler and collector [[Gustave Soury]] reads: "Enterprise Carl Hagenbec
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  • File:Mills Elephants (1950).jpeg
    The Bertram Mills Circus's elephants, presented by John Gindl, at the Olympia in London. Note the ri * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • The Aratas
    ...Guido. Guido (1911-?) married Cleofe Denji, who came from another Italian circus family, and together they had three children, Anna (b. January 5, 1940), Vi ...the famous Austrian circus (before it went bankrupt and became an Italian circus), and the Aratas returned to their country, where they worked for a time wi
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  • File:Bertram Mills Postcard (1957).jpeg
    Bertram Mills Circus advertising postcard for its 1957-1958 season at Olympia, featuring Paulina * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Cirque Medrano (Paris)
    ...rque Medrano holds a singular place in the Parisian cultural fabric and in circus history. From its beginnings as Cirque Fernando, in 1873, until the end of ...into genuine circus stars; appearing in its ring was a recognition for any circus artist. Its last performance under Jérôme Medrano’s reign in January 19
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  • File:Bertram Mills Tour 1939.jpg
    Promotional flyer for Bertram Mills Circus's 1939 touring season, featuring Koringa (1939) — ''Private Collectio * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertrams Mills 55-56.jpg
    Program cover for the Bertram Mills Circus's 1955-1956 season at Olympia in London (1955) — ''Dominique Jando Co * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Edoardo Raspini
    ...28 to Oreste and Tamara Raspini. The Raspinis were one of many old Italian circus families established in the Russian Empire prior to the Bolshevik Revolutio ...was already an accomplished juggler; he made his solo debut in 1942, at [[Circus Mikkenie-Strassburger]] in Holland, with his beautiful sister, Elvira, as h
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  • File:Bertram Mills - Holiday (1932).jpg
    ...ing by Gilbert Holiday (1879-1937) for the 1932-33 season of Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia in London (1932) — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills 1947.jpeg
    ...esigned by Joan Wanklyn (1924-1999) for the 1947-8 season of Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia in London (1947) — ''Dominique Jando Collection'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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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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  • File:Bombayo - Bertram Mills Circus.jpeg
    Bertram Mills Circus poster featuring Kannan Bombayo (1935) — ''Document © Victoria & Alb * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Program 32-32.jpeg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus 1931-1932 Holiday season at London's Olympia, featuring Cecilie Schumann (1 * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Ernst Schumann - Mills.jpeg
    Ernst Schumann, from a [[Bertram Mills Circus]] program (1926) — ''Document: Dominique Jando Archive''
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  • Gene Mendez
    ...oved to Brooklyn, New York, when Gene was still a child. He wanted to be a circus artist; it was not just a vague childhood dream: As a teenager, he began to ...t was indeed a great exposure, which was duly noticed by the press and the circus community—and by Ed Sullivan who invited Mendez to his television sho
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  • File:Coco (1951).jpg
    Coco, backstage at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (1951) — ''Document: Hulton Archive - Getty Images''
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  • File:Mills May Wirth.jpeg
    Bertram Mills Circus poster featuring the equestrienne May Wirth (1926) — ''Private Collec * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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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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  • File:Bertram Mills Opening.jpg
    ...go (1910-1974). A lifelong circus enthusiast, Seago painted Bertram Mills' Circus's opening parade on opening night at London's Olympia (1932) — ''Priv
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  • File:Bertram Mills - Seago.jpeg
    ...go (1910-1974). A lifelong circus enthusiast, Seago painted Bertram Mills' Circus's opening parade on opening night at London's Olympia (1932) — ''Private * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram-Mills-poster-1952.jpg
    Poster designed by Janis for Bertram Mills' Circus at Olympia, season 1952-53 (1952) — ''Private Collection'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Circus Cambridge.jpeg
    Bertram Mills Circus in Cambridge (1953) — ''Photo © Vern Orton'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Entrance 1952.jpeg
    Bertram Mills Circus' main entrance in Lancaster. A cutout of the clown [[Coco]] can be seen on * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills Circus program 1951.jpeg
    Program cover for the 1951-52 Jubilee Season of Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, (1951) — ''Dominique Jando Archive'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Medrano Sisters.jpeg
    ...from left to right: Therese, Anita and Wanda) backstage at [[Bertram Mills Circus]], at London's Olympia (1934) — ''Document: Dominique Jando Archive''
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  • Rudy Horn
    He was born Rudolf Horn in Nuremberg, Germany, on February 14, 1933, in a circus family. His father, Rupert Horn, had worked as a strong man before appearin ...ther, Benedikt Schiefer, the family’s juggler, who owned a small touring circus. In late 1942, Rupert Horn contacted the manager of Nuremberg’s WinterGar
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  • File:Mills Program 1959.png
    Program cover for the 1959-60 season of Bertram Mills Circus at London's Olympia, featuring [[The Francescos]] (1959) — ''Dominiqu * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Jürg Jenny
    ...man animal trainer [[Gerd Siemoneit]], who was performing that season at [[Circus Knie]. ...s, Jürg was allowed to help Siemoneit with his cats at his [[Circus Barum|Circus Barum-Safari]]. In 1975, Siemoneit finally hired Jürg to become his assist
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  • File:Mills Olumpia 1959.jpeg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia (1952) — ''Dominique Jando Archive'' * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Program 1939.jpg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus 1939 tour, featuring [[Koringa]] (1939) — ''Dominique Jando Archive'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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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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  • The Schumann Dynasty
    ==Equestrians, Circus Owners== ...own circus and settled in (and then purchased) [[Ernst Renz]]’s flagship circus in Berlin in 1899—which remained active under Schumann’s ownership
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  • File:Max Schumann Mills.jpg
    Max Schumann and one of his horses at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (1960) — ''Photo: Robert Cohen – Dominique Jando Collection''
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  • The 3 Bragazzi
    ...e a trio of Italian acrobats whose act met with great success, both in the circus ring and on the variety stage, from the 1940s up to the late 1960s. They be ...utonomous city bordered by Morocco, on the north coast of Africa. Like all circus children, they were trained in all traditional acrobatic disciplines within
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  • Gerry Cottle
    ==Circus Owner and Producer== ...y Cottle seized the opportunity, and his name soon became synonymous with "circus" in the United Kingdom and would remain so until Cottle’s untimely death
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  • Barbette
    ...was immediately hooked and, then and there, decided that he would become a circus performer. It was a time when the American circus industry was still flourishing, and circus was still the country's most popular form of entertainment; hundreds of cir
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  • Serge
    ==Circus Chronicler, Graphic Artist== ...as also an exuberant circus enthusiast, and most of his work concerned the circus and its close cousin, the music-hall (vaudeville or variety).
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  • Bertram Mills Video (1959)
    The Royal Family visits Bertram Mills Circus at London's Olympia. (The name of the performers and principal characters * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Serge Parade.png
    Serge, ''La Parade'', inspired by the opening parade of [[Bertram Mills Circus]] at London's Olympia, print from his album ''Panorama du Cirque'' (1944) &
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  • Jacko Fossett
    ...Ireland. So numerous the Fossett clan is that it was once said that every circus in the British Isles harbored at least one Fossett! (Jacko Fossett said: "I ...her, John Fossett, was performing as a clown with the [[Sir Robert Fossett Circus]]. His mother was Maria
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  • Little Billy Merchant
    ...[[Jacko Fossett]], a successful association that began at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] and morphed into a lifelong friendship. ...roli]]'s act. [[Coco]], another great British clown, and a [[Bertram Mills Circus]]'s fixture before the war was also in the show.
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  • File:Little Billy.jpg
    Little Billy and a friend at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (c.1960) — ''Photo X''
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  • File:Mills Jacko Little Billy 63.jpg
    Hermané, Jacko Fossett and Little Billy, with Nikki, in a [[Bertram Mills Circus]] souvenir program (1961) — ''Dpminique Jando Collection''
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  • Bertram Mills Circus Video (1946)
    British Pathé newsreel announcing the reopening of Bertram Mills Circus in Windsor after World War II (1946) — ''Document: British Pathé'' * Biography: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Olympia 60-61.jpg
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus at Kensington Olympia in London (1960) — ''Dominique Jando Collection * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • Coco Video (1961)
    ...illy and Nikki, with Coco's granddaughter, in rehearsal at [[Bertram Mills Circus]] in London's Olympia (1962) — ''Document: British Pathé''
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  • File:Don Saunders - Mills.jpg
    Don Saunders on the back lot of [[Bertram Mills Circus]] (c.1963) — ''Document reproduced by permission of the University o
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  • Alex Kerr BBC Video (1958)
    ...rmance shots are [[Tony Yelding]] and [[Frank Foster, Jr.]]: Bertram Mills Circus had traditionally, and for quite a long time, two ringmasters. (1958) &mdas
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  • Alex Kerr
    ...deo_(1958)|Alex Kerr training and presenting his tigers]] at Bertram Mills Circus (1958)
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  • File:Mills Circus Leeds.jpg
    Bertram Mills Circus in Leeds (c.1955) — ''Image: West Yorkshire Archive Service'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Mills Advertising Van.jpg
    Bertram Mills Circus advertising van (c.1955) — ''Photo X'' * Circuses: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Gosta Kruse Mills.jpg
    Gösta Kruse unloading the [[Bertram Mills Circus]]'s elephants from the circus trains (c.1960) — ''Photo X''
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  • File:Bertram Mills 1934.png
    Program Cover for Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, London, featuring the high school riders [[Los Aseveras]] (1934 * History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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  • File:Bertram Mills 1957.png
    Program cover for Bertram Mills Circus 1957-1958 sason at London's Olympia (1957) — ''Dominique Jando Collec History: [[Bertram Mills Circus]]
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