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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...t to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair entrepreneur (and future leisure industry magnate), Billy Butlin, helped him out, which resul
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• John Bill Ricketts
  ...oxes) surrounding a circular riding space filled in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring. ...etts, a British equestrian who had arrived from Scotland the previous year and had quickly established a riding school in Philadelphia, then the capital o
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• Jean Richard
  ...farm named "La Ménagerie." His father was Pierre Richard, a horse dealer, and his mother a homemaker, née Suzanne Boinot. ...ol. He also began to work as an actor—in the movies, in the theatre, and in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ==Circus Director and Animal Trainer== ...art, Jr. (1934-2005) was the youngest son of the legendary British funfair and circus entrepreneur [[Billy Smart]]. Billy Junior made his debut in show bu
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• Philip Astley
  ...Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-maker. Edward had a short-fuse and a passion for horses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nin ...For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disputes with his father and enrolled in the 15th Light Dragoons, a cavalry regiment newly formed by Col
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• Paul Binder
  ...rtmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Repertory Theatre. ...a University, where he earned an MBA. But by then it was the late sixties, and like many young people of his generation, Paul had grown restless.
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• Michael Christensen
  ...at home were mercifully offset by generally pleasant experiences at school and elsewhere. In his late teens, Michael enrolled in the University of Washing ...while passing clubs. Eager to see the world, they decided to go to England and perform their act on street corners to finance a European "grand tour." As
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• Liana Orfei
  ...-seven films, including Fellini's ''I Clowns'' (1972) and dozens of peplum and adventure movies. She also acted onstage under the direction of legendary p ...ephants, three rings of liberty horses, and a remarkable menagerie of wild and exotic animals.
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• Moira Orfei
  ...ing her circus using posters that prominently displayed only her head shot and her first name. Much of her reputation was due to her long movie career, wh ...uctions based on mythological themes, such as the ''Hercules'', ''Ursus'', and ''Samson'' series.
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• David Dimitri
  ==Wire Dancer, Acrobat, Circus Director and Producer== ...debut in the ring of [[Circus Knie]], along with his siblings, all dressed and made-up as miniature versions of their father, who was starring in the show
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s).
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• Darix Togni
  ...and Doly, and then appeared in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. ...s, and acting as a whiteface clown in a clown act with his brother Wioris, and the circus's midget clown, Checco Medori: ''I Sorellini''.
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• Ivor David Balding
  ==Circus Producer and Artistic Director== ...before becoming manager of the Whitney Farm in Lexington, where he raised and trained racing-horses.
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• Cesare Togni
  ==Circus Owner and Performer== ...a beloved circus director who made his mark on the history of the Italian and European circus.
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• Enis Togni
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Togni, Enis]][[Artists and Acts|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Equestrians|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Animal Tra
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• Roby Gasser
  ...rteen, Roby was in charge of the technical aspects of the show—sound and lighting. ...a true comedy act involving in parts of equal importance both the animals and their trainer.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  ...ei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and Alberto Zoppé was to be one of these. ...he attention of Orson Welles, who was working then at Cinecittà, in Rome, and the actor-director suggested that Alberto came to London to appear in a sma
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  Located in the heart of Paris, between the Place de la République and the Place de la Bastille, at the edge of the historical Marais, the Cirque ...s ring and a full theater stage, and consequently, it was easy for its new owners to transform it into a legitimate theater, the ''Théâtre du Cirque Olympi
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• Valentin Gneushev
  ...f of the twentieth century, and the creator of some of the most innovative and celebrated circus acts of the 1990s. ...for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, including [[Cirque du Soleil]].
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• Alfred Court
  ...mal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America. ...oap business (Marseille was then the capital of France’s soap industry), and his mother was the daughter of the Marquis de Clapier, a rich aristocrat we
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