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John Robinson's Circus and the magnificent newly added spectacle "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt" a stupendous portrayal of the most powerful story in ancient history, will exhibit at Terre Haute Thu. July 24 by John Robinson's Circus (Book) John Robinson Circus Collection; 1904 Winter quarters of John Robinson's Circus at Terrace Park by William H ...
The Ringlings acquired the Yankee Robinson Circus and opened a joint show on May 19, 1884. This brought them to the attention of James Anthony Bailey of Barnum & Bailey. The brothers later met with Bailey and agreed to divide some territory. This was followed by the purchase of a half share of the Adam Forepaugh Sells Brothers Circus from
That year, he joined the Robinson Famous Shows under conductor Woodring Van Anda ("Woody Van"). The next year he was performing in the Yankee Robinson Circus band under Theo. Stout. In 1912, he performed in the Sells-Floto Circus under W.P. English (a famous march composer), and in 1913 in the Barnum and Bailey band under Ned Brill. At the ...
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 ...
In 1851 only "Yankee" Robinson's company toured in their tented theatre. By 1927, The New York Times estimated that 400 tent theatre companies had visited 18,000 communities and played to 76,800,000 customers while 500 legitimate theatres across the U.S. had played to only 48,000,000 customers.
The property was also used as the winter quarters for his son Richard's circus, the R.T. Richards Circus. Alfred died in his 28-room New Jersey manor, three years after its completion, on October 21, 1919. Charles Edward Ringling (1863–December 3, 1926). [10] John Nicholas Ringling (1866–1936). John was a singer and a professional clown. [1]
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Tillie was one of four elephants that the Robinsons kept when they sold the Robinson Circus in 1912. [ 2 ] Tillie's image is shown on the cover Phillip J. Nuxhall's book Stories from the Grove , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and she can be seen in a poster on page 76 of Dann Woellert's book Cincinnati's Northside Neighborhood .