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The American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al G. Barnes Circus. It was owned by Jerry Mugivan, Bert Bowers and Ed Ballard. They sold the company in 1929 to John Nicholas Ringling for $1.7 million ($30.2 million today). With that ...
His "Rowe's American Circus" played in Melbourne, Australia from June 1852 [3] to October 1854, when he liquidated the establishment. [4] The English acrobat George Lewis was one of his performers. Rowe returned to America in February 1854, leaving his wife Eliza, who was a performing member of the circus, riding a trick pony, as sole manager.
In 1856, he entered management and in 1857, James M. Nixon, partnered with William H. Kemp on a circus venture called the Great Eastern Circus which had to be drawn by 40 horses. [2] This combined Nixon's Great American Circus and Kemp's Mammoth English Circus.
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
Dan Castello came up with the idea of leveraging Barnum's money, fame, and talent to establish a massive circus. [15] In 1870, a proposal was made to the American showman P. T. Barnum to join Dan Castello, owner of the Dan Castello Show, along with side-show manager and part-owner W.C. Coup as a partner in the circus enterprise. [16]
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Print/export Download as PDF; ... 1800 – December 5, 1856) was a circus impresario in the early-19th century. Life and career ... A History of the Circus in America ...
Dan Rice (January 23, 1823 – February 22, 1900) was an American entertainer of many talents, most famously as a clown, who was active before the American Civil War. At the height of his career, Rice was a household name. Dan Rice also coined the terms "One Horse Show" and "Greatest Show" while popularizing the barrel-style "French" cuff.