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  • - Roofless wooden enclosure. Opens June 2, 1808, under the management of Victor Pépin and Jean Breschard. Closes o ...1809. The company returns in 1810 and 1811, at the same time of the year (June-September).
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  • ...vid pandemic prevented it from performing in the winter of 2020-21. (As of June 2021, it is not yet known if it will resume its performances.) ...ld, [[Paul Binder]] was occasionally taken to the circus by his parents at Madison Square Garden. "I do have one very powerful memory," Paul said, "a spotlig
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  • ...s documentary, ''Swing High''. In April 1932, during the Ringling show's Madison Square Garden engagement in New York, Alfredo missed a catch, fell into the ...last long: Alfredo had another bad fall into the net on April 29, 1933 at Madison Square Garden, this time dislocating his shoulder and seriously injuring hi
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  • When World War I came to an end with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, Alfred and Renée Court decided to return to France, and Court sold t ...and then travel in Spain. It was a very modest circus that hit the road in June 1934—although its publicity inflated considerably its importance. But
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  • ...e site of Thompson Madison Cottage (which would give its name to the first Madison Square Garden). The troupe was made of some of Batty’s performers—a ...ater toured with the ''Van Amburgh Circus'' of [[Lewis B. Titus]] and John June.
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  • ...to me, "He really ''was'' a great man, you know." Ethel Mills’ death in June 1960, at age eighty-six, brought from both sons simply a sigh: They heard t ...s Personnel and Publicity Director for the ice show ''Holiday On Ice'' and Madison Square Garden Productions, Inc., I was asked to stage and produce a big and
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  • ...bats on horseback of all times, May Emmeline Wirth (1894-1978) was born on June 6, 1894 at Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward ...onspicuous place on the programme for their season opening at New York’s Madison Square Garden, on March 21, 1912: Her flic-flacs on horseback and her back
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  • ...would never return to the act; he was killed in 1939 in Czechoslovakia. In June 1940, Walter married Ingrid Mossea (1929-2009). She didn’t come from a pe ...he Palmer House and the Shubert Theater in Chicago; Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, and the Latin Quarter in New York City; and the Flamingo in
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  • Arnold opened his Moscow State Circus tour on June 10, 1959 at the 12,000-seat Wembley's Empire Olympic Pool (home to his annu ...ow with a thirty-minute attraction presented in the challenging expanse of Madison Square Garden. Igor faced the challenge successfully and his introduction t
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  • ...e Center Ring," Rose Gold, with André Pahin and Bernard Zenner, opened at Madison Square Garden in New York on April 9, 1947. Not only were they a center-rin ...enus of the Air"). She and André had a new partner, Georges Debackere. On June 6, the trio made the headlines when they were filmed by the ''Actualités F
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  • ...completed; the new Cirque Fernando opened its doors seven months later, on June 25, 1875. Its address was at 63 Boulevard de Rochechouart, and it had cost They had already performed all over Europe when they landed in Paris in June 1872, at the Cirque des Champs-Elysées, where they achieved a notable succ
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  • ...g [[Harold Alzana]] in the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily]] show at [[Madison Square Garden]] in New York, Gene began self-training in wire walking… in ...nity—and by Ed Sullivan who invited Mendez to his television show in June 1958.
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  • Aleksandr Kornilov died on June 12, 1977 in Moscow. When he retired from performing in 1970, at age sixty-s ...the United States—where they were presented in 1994 at New York’s Madison Square Garden by the Australian producer [[Michael Edgley]]. The previous y
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  • ...ce. His brother André (1906-1996) followed him there four years later, on June 2, 1906. Their father, Adrien, was a Master Brick Mason, and they were dest ...came the Second World War, followed by the German occupation of France in June 1940. French circus and variety performers entered then in a period of shee
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