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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...d Alzana]], [[The Great Doval]] (Manfred Fritsch), and [[Gene Mendez]] and Joe Seitz had popularized this style of frenetic high-wire daredevilry, but whe ...Greatest Show On Earth'' until 1984. In 1985, they were featured at the [[Big Apple Circus]] and in a PBS TV special, ''The Pops Join the Circus'', with
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...girl with the Ringling Bros. This was still the era of the giant traveling big tops and circus trains, and the job not only meant dancing, but also riding ...ial act. Her godmother, Margie Geiger, came to help. Margie was married to Joe Geiger, a member of the original [[Wallendas]], and she was herself a forme
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• Ivor David Balding
  Back to the U.S., David Balding worked for Joe Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and then founded the New Theatre In 1980, David Balding helped produce the [[Big Apple Circus]]'s first Holiday production at New York’s Lincoln Center fo
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• The Codonas
  ...hey had an elder sister, Victoria (1890-1983), and three younger siblings, Joe, Hortense (1900-1987), and Rosa. Eduardo and Hortensia began training their ...had her own dressing-room tent pitched near the artists’ entrance to the big top, and who had obtained her own suite on the Ringling train—a perk
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• The Great Carmo
  ...ildings and grounds to house all the animals, vehicles, and properties the big show needed. It was to be known as ''Carmo Manor''. But tragedy struck in S ...eason at the ''Fun Fair'' [[Bertram Mills|Bertram W. Mills]] staged in the big hall at the [[Olympia of Kensington]] in London, and which was adjacent to
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• Arturo Castilla
  ...a truly "American-style" circus came in 1951, when Castilla booked Edward "Joe" Gray, a former captain of the Canadian Mounties who, in the late 1940s, we ...ng of the ''zarzuela'', a Spanish form of operetta of which Castilla was a big fan.
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...e, Molli, and Terry, with Jimmy being the catcher. They didn’t do truly "big" tricks (although Kandy did a somersault-and-a-half caught by the legs, and ...the giant big top of Billy Smart’s Circus. They also appeared in one of Joe Cates’s American TV circus shows for NBC, shot at Paris’s legendary [[C
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• Scott and Muriel
  ...full-evening show, ''Scott & Muriel's B!G Show with Joe!'', together with Joe Dieffenbacher, of the theater group ''Nakupelle'', which toured The Netherl ...ates, they were featured in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Dream Big'', in 2011-2012. Just before that engagement, they had created a new tourin
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...use of its water basin with comic pantomimes that inevitably ended with a big splash in the pool! Novelties and comedy had been so far what had distingui ...arena designed for equestrian spectaculars, the Hippodrome was perhaps too big to be profitable: it would eventually close in 1907. (It was transformed in
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• Gene Mendez
  ...reate an act of his own with fellow members of the Wallenda troupe, Josef (Joe) Seitz, and Leon Fort. The trio was quite successful, Mendez doing his best ...tz’s shoulders—all of which without ever touching a balance pole. (Joe Seitz, however, who served mostly as Mendez’s assistant for his tricks an
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• Circus Krone
  ...two centuries an important marketplace for menagerie operators, small and big. ...s relatively modest menagerie business wouldn’t be a competition to the big international shows with which the Hagenbeck companies were dealing. From W
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• The Schumann Dynasty
  ...ö in the South of Sweden. The show, which opened on May 16, 1885, was not big, and its quality was a little wanting at first, but Albert had sixteen hors ...t hesitate to travel far and wide. For this purpose, he purchased a large big top (still uncommon at the time and referred to as an "American tent"), so
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• Gerry Cottle
  ...cus, and this apprenticeship would later serve him well. He then went to [[Joe Gandey]]’s Circus, where he tried his hand at performing (as a stilt walk ...ttle & Austen Circus had become Britain’s premier circus. They had had a big break when Cottle & Austen was featured in the BBC documentary series ''The
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• Little Billy Merchant
  ...ally included dwarf acrobats. With Boganny, Billy became truly exposed to "big time" variety and what is more, he could fully express his nascent comedic
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