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  • Zirkus '''Charles Knie''' [http://www.zirkus-charles-knie.de/ www.zirkus-charles-knie.de] '''Charles Chipperfield''' Circus [http://www.charleschipperfieldcircus.co.uk/ www.cha
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  • ...de Lafayette), erected at the corner of Laurens Street and Grand Street by Charles W. Sandford (later General Sandford), a New York socialite, railroad lawyer ...e of the largest place of amusement in America"—built and managed by Charles Sandford (see above, "1825-25: Lafayette Circus"). Closes in 1829 after a N
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  • ...one that was different from both the gigantic corporate affair that was [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] and the pathetic remnants of the defunct golden ...mdash;came. Among them were a group of kids, age fourteen to sixteen, from Charles Evans Hughes High School; they practiced tumbling at a YMCA and were brough
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  • ...t had been the norm since the original circuses of [[Philip Astley]] and [[Charles Hughes]] had appeared in the eighteenth century. ...and 1960-1961, and an American Circus program made of star acts from the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus’s roster in 1964. These rare and short
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  • ...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 ...all mining town east of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. His father, Charles, worked there as a coal miner, but he was also an amateur acrobat, and he b
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  • ...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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  • ...nd Charles Clarke had secured the triple in 1910, while working with the [[Ringling Bros. Circus]]; but although they attempted it regularly in performance, th ...cus star, and The Codonas a much sought-after flying act. Star acts of the Ringling shows were often in demand in Europe during their winter break, and The Cod
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  • ...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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  • Toly (Anatole, b. 1943), Charly (Charles, b. 1945), and Eddy (Edouard, b. 1949) were all born in Paris, France: In s ...the Cirque Moustier. Alphonse had no less than ten children; one of them, Charles, was Louis’s father and the grandfather of Toly, Charly, Eddy, and their
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  • ...uired a good degree of fame as an excellent jockey. Christine grandfather, Charles, ran a circus in France, which was also very popular in North Africa— ...th horses. She met her husband, Sultan Kumisbayev, while performing with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]: Christine worked in a sway pole act, and Sulta
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  • ...n weeks in 1902/1903, and shortly before World War I broke out, impresario Charles B. Cochran had staged ''[[The Hagenbeck Family|Hagenbeck]]’s Wonder Zoo a ...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
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  • ...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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  • ...ghes]] (1747-97), a former member of Astley's company. In association with Charles Dibdin, a prolific songwriter and author of pantomimes, Hughes opened a riv [[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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  • ...l Krone]], colleagues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]]. ...a few major traveling menageries into Europe’s largest tenting circuses: Charles ([[Circus Krone|Krone]]), [[Circus Barum|Barum]] (Kreiser), and [[The Hagen
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  • ...ly troupe sailed to the New World, where their act was featured with the [[Ringling Bros. Circus]]; it remained there until 1912, working in American vaudevill ...the clown Emil Flumm, and his sister Hilda (b.1869) married the aerialist Charles Szemanovicz.
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  • ...s on July 26, 1851, probably out of wedlock, whom Ferdinand adopted. Louis-Charles (the future Louis Fernando, 1851-1917) was then six years old, just fifteen ...ne. However, the façade and the elaborate reception hall were the work of Charles Garnier (1825-1898), the celebrated architect of Paris’s extravagant Opé
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  • ...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 ...the process, a new performing persona destined to great success: "Dompteur Charles." Thus, with his distinguished French name and an elegant military-style co
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  • ...Multiple cage acts, such as the Klant-Hagenbeck mixed group presented by [[Charles Dubé]] or [[Miss Yvonne]] and polar bears presented by [[Barbara & Eugen P ...and born in 1943) rose to fame in the late 1970s. He first performed for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] with his father's tiger-on-horse act; he then c
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  • ...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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  • ...gled out by audiences and critics alike. The great French producer Jacques-Charles took notice, and Barbette was immediately signed to participate in his new ...Sacha Guitry and Igor Stravinsky, as well as rich art benefactors such as Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles. His influence was indeed far-reaching.
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