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  2. Merle Evans - Wikipedia

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    Merle Slease Evans (December 26, 1891 – December 31, 1987) was an American cornet player and circus band conductor who conducted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for fifty years. He was known as the "Toscanini of the Big Top."

  3. Billy Smart Sr. - Wikipedia

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    At first, the circus ran in conjunction with the existing funfair, but the latter was phased out by 1952, and Smart's circus toured with a full menagerie of animals. In 1954, the existing big top was replaced by one with a capacity of 6,000 seats, a hippodrome track around the ring, and a grand entrance hall allowing spectacular parades to take ...

  4. List of circuses and circus owners - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic International Circus [3] China Active 2023-present Al G. Barnes Circus: United States of America Defunct 1895–1938 Albert & Friends Instant Circus [4] [5] United Kingdom Aloft Circus Arts [6] United States of America 1941–present Amar Circus [7] India Antonio Franconi: Italy Defunct Archaos: France Active 1986–present

  5. The Big Circus - Wikipedia

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    The Big Circus is a 1959 American drama film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Victor Mature as a circus owner struggling with financial trouble and a murderous unknown saboteur. It was produced and cowritten by Irwin Allen , later known for a series of big-budget disaster films .

  6. Gilbert R. Spalding - Wikipedia

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    Ad for Spalding's North American Circus (1847) "Dr." Gilbert Reynolds Spalding, sometimes spelled Spaulding, (14 January 1812 – 6 April 1880) was an American showman, circus owner and innovator, being the first to own his own showboat, constructed the first showboat to contain an entire circus and in 1856 the first to send an entire circus on tour in its own railroad cars.

  7. Silvers Circus - Wikipedia

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    The original Silver's Circus was founded by Mervyn King and David Hardie Snr, Les Hardie and David Hardie Jnr, the Hardie family in Sydney NSW in 1946. [1] The professional name of 'Silvers' was chosen for the circus, inspired by the neon sign King saw flashing one night outside a Sydney restaurant, The Silver Grill.

  8. Wire-walker Nik Wallenda bringing new holiday circus show to ...

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    Nik Wallenda wants to create a new holiday circus tradition that could be an annual event in Sarasota, with its long historic ties to the circus. Wire-walker Nik Wallenda bringing new holiday ...

  9. John Ringling - Wikipedia

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    John Nicholas Ringling (May 31, 1866 – December 2, 1936) was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus.