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ISU Gamma Phi Circus [152] United States of America 1929–present Ivanovo State Circus [153] Russia Active 1933–present Janbaz Circus [154] Pakistan Jordan World Circus [155] [156] United States of America Active 1988–present Jumbo Circus [157] [158] India Jim Rose Circus: United States of America Active 1991–present Karaganda Circus [159]
Circus films continued to be popular during the Second World War; films from this era included The Great Profile starring John Barrymore (1940), the animated Disney film Dumbo (1941), Road Show (1941), The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) and Captive Wild Woman (1943). Tromba, a film about a tiger trainer, was released in 1948.
Floorplan of Circus Maximus. This design is typical of Roman circuses. The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed ...
Even at the height of its development as a chariot-racing circuit, the circus remained the most suitable space in Rome for religious processions on a grand scale and was the most popular venue for large-scale venationes; in the late 3rd century, the emperor Probus laid on a spectacular Circus show in which beasts were hunted through a veritable ...
His circus was popular in Victorian Britain for 30 years, [1] [2] [3] a period that is regarded as the golden age of the circus. [4] Since the 1960s, Pablo Fanque has been best known for being mentioned in the Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. ... The teeth were a popular choice for this. Lastly ...
An excerpt from the book Traveling Medicine Show states, "Circuses were based on the idea that rural townsfolk were underexposed to the world, and the circus was the medium through which they could experience exotic entertainment and ideas, a concept the medicine show would later exploit to equal success." [8]
Eguino, who says he was “born in the circus,” with five generations of his family performing, has worked in the Globe for the last 21 years — first in the Argentine circuses where he grew up ...