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If you are a teacher searching for educational material, please visit PBS LearningMedia for a wide range of free digital resources spanning preschool through 12th grade. New Years Eve 2016/17 London - London Party Boats are kitted out with the latest lasers and lighting systems and also have two fully stocked bars, a lower saloon. Circus History Message Board. Great Orlando, 2. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I have a newspaper clipping found in my late grandmothers belongings. She died in 1. 96. There is no newspaper name, but it tells of The Great Orlando who was a trapeze artist with a circus in Hull at the time. He collapsed in the street and was attended by a young lady (I assume as my grandmother kept the clipping it may have been her). I know she lived in Hull when she was young. Any information on him would be good. It's always been told in the family that she wanted to call my father Orlando, but grandad wouldn't have it. Mix up the letters for Orlando and and it's pretty near Roland which was the name they agreed to in the end. Pamela Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 2. 4 Oct 2. Nothing appeared regarding the incident in a simple Google search, New York Clipper, Billboard, Fulton History, etc. Your best chances for discovery would be to search Hull newspapers in the British historical newspapers website. It is accessible at British libraries and at larger city and university libraries in the US. Sometimes the printing on the reverse side of a clipping car serve to date it. Fred Dahlinger Jr., Curator of Circus History, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. CHS is on Facebook! Jordan Circus, 1. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I recently purchased a collection of handmade wooden trains & toys. The train set has eight cars that are labeled either Jordan Circus and/or Jordan Brothers Circus. The woman I purchased these from said her father and his siblings made and played with these items (assuming from the 1. Her family supposedly was part of the management team. I can not find any reference to the Jordan Brothers Circus in any of my research. Any information if this was an actual circus and any background would greatly be appreciated. They are not affiliated with the Jordan World Circus that currently travels the South/Southwest states. The items were purchased in Northern Illinois. Thank you - Scott Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Sparks Circus, 1. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I would like to know some history of the Spark's Circus in the 1. We live in Stokes Co unity of N. C and understand they wintered here. Too, we had a great aunt that was married to the owner of the circus at one time. She told tales of them wintering in New London, N. C. They repaired costumes etc. Would like to know where to find more information. Too, there use to be tales of an elephant that had to be killed, I think her name was Mary. Would appreciate any information. Thank you, Amie Hampton Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 2. 4 Oct 2. The Sparks circus was founded by John H. Wiseman and a man that used the name Charles Sparks. They toured using the name by 1. Wiseman and Sparks were married to sisters named Mitchell from East Brady, PA. Perhaps another family member later married someone from Stokes County? He died from the effects of an animal bite in 1. A gentleman named Steve Shelton has been doing important primary research work on the Wiseman presence in Vade Mecum. It was wintered in Salisbury, NC in the winters of 1. Inflammatory stories based on inaccurate information, supplemented by a faked image of her hanging, are periodically revived online and in print. They have obscured the truth surrounding the episode, as well as impugning the good character of Charles Sparks. He is generally regarded as a showman. You can read 1. 94. Sparks show in Billboard magazine, accessible with key word searching on Google Books Advanced Search. You can locate these in the article index on this website. Back issues are often available for purchase, or copies can be ordered from institutions with holdings of the journals. Fred Dahlinger Jr., Curator of Circus History, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. Join CHS today! Membership. William Sholes, equestrian, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I'm writing to ask if you have any information about equestrian William Sholes. He and Annie Oakley were good friends and she testified in court for him. I'd like to know what the hearing was about. Could you help? Thank you, Chris Enss Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 1. 7 Oct 2. If you look for William Showles, with a . Circus, but at different times. Aerial rope performance, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - My name is Roy Gomez. I'm finishing a Ph. D in Performance Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago with a research project on circus performance. While my project is fundamentally ethnographic (interviews and participant observation), I am deeply invested in understanding the circus history, which I believe is key for any circus research project regardless its methodological approach. Specifically, one of my dissertation chapters focuses on aerial rope performance (corde- lisse). I do want to have a very good grasp about lineages, traditions and overall, the evolution of rope as a . So, I am very interested in gathering information about when this kind of circus acts emerged? Which are the most outstanding rope performances presented in the US circus history? How does this ? I'd be very grateful of only having your thoughts around this, and also if you have suggestions about: has anyone explored the history of rope in the circus? Does someone have information or leads to rope artists/performances? Do you have any suggestion about archives about the circus specialized in aerial acts? I sincerely appreciate your answers/suggestions. Find out here - Membership. Circus, New Zealand, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I am looking for information regarding a circus that possibly performed in New Zealand around March - April 1. My interest is in finding a relative. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you, Penny Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 1. 7 Oct 2. The limited number of troupes touring in 1. Magic act, circus, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - I am a magciain and collector and I am for years looking for a footage that I found recently that exist, on a magician. He performed a comedy act and his name was Jay Palmer. His act was performed with Doreen, his wife, and his famous piece was the magic kettle trick. I assume (and from what I was told) that the act was taped in 1. I would like to know if is there any record or more precise information about this issue please. Zelda Boden, 0. 3 Oct 2. A picture of Zelda Boden has been circulating and I was researching for my own satisfaction. I have a hunch she is the wife of Art Boden, trickrider. The Zelda Boden that appears to be his wife is born on 1. I thought it was just a coincidence but she first appears with him (that I can find ) in 1. The photos that are taken of her are most likely 1. I find them traveling later together to England as husband and wife and due to the age difference, etc I am pretty sure not siblings. I thought it unlikely they were one in the same but I find him performing in circuses so I think Zelda from the images and Mrs Zelda Boden, wife of Art are the same. He seems to be Henry Arthur Boden from Kansas. There is a reference to her as Mrs Art Boden in the magazine. Glasier photographs of Zelda Boden (one included in the 2. Glasier, pages 7. Glasier to the margins of his negatives. Boden, age 1. 2, listed as born July 1. Montana Township, Jewell County, Kansas, 4th child, 3rd son of Henry C. Boden, 5. 6, born Indiana (Ohio born father, NY born mother) and Mary J. Boden, 4. 3, born Iowa (Indiana born parents). Buffalo Bill? Ringling Bros.?? Great Australian Circus . Barnes Circus . 3 show, on Schubert Time . Main Circus in 1. Circus for the 1. Gerettie family, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - Does anyone know anything about the Gerettie family. They were bareback riders and acrobats in the late nineteenth century. Blanche Gerettie married my grandfather's grandfather, the magician and slack wire walker, Jean Seul aka John Edwin Sewell. Turner has passed on and I don. You might try the Circus Fans Association of Great Britain for insights. Searching via different name spellings will likely yield more hits. Searching digitized British newspapers, including The Era, will likely yield many more. Fred Dahlinger Jr., Curator of Circus History, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. Keep the heritage of the circus alive, join CHS today! Membership. 46. 82. I know very little about them and would like to know as much as possible. I do know that they traveled through Texas and California through the early decades of the 1. Waldo owned the circus and his wife would wear a spider costume and climb during her performance. This is all I know and I am trying to get this information for my aging father. Ref: Oswaldo De. Soto and Maria Martinez, their traveling circus would have been in the 1. Thank you, James Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 1. 7 Oct 2. I tried to locate the names of your grandfather and his wife within the outdoor show business, without success. If their show was a carpa, it likely catered to Spanish- speaking audiences and locales, suggesting the California to Texas area you mentioned. Buffalo Bill circus, 0. Oct 2. 01. 6 - While doing family genealogy, I found a relation that listed on his World War I draft registration card that his occupation was a foreman for the Buffalo Bill Circus. I have read a lot about Buffalo Bill and his shows. It appears he made a lot of money and became famous over the years, but his show went bankrupt in 1. Did someone buy out his show after that, or was someone using his name to run another show? The WWI draft registration was in 1. I would love to hear from anyone with knowledge about this circus. This relative lived to 8. Gibsonton, Florida, (AKA: the summer home of circus.) Also listed on his WWI draft registration was a question, . Dave Reply to this message, replies go to this board, not to the message sender. Reply: 1. 7 Oct 2. The combined Buffalo Bill. John Cleese - Wikipedia. John Marwood Cleese (; born 2. October 1. 93. 9) is an English actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1. 96. Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show. Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid- 1. 97. Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co- wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, with Cleese receiving the 1. BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance. Later, he co- starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures, both of which he also wrote. He also starred in Clockwise and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films as R and Q, two Harry Potter films, and the last three Shrek films. With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay, he co- founded Video Arts, a production company making entertaining training films. In 1. 97. 6, Cleese co- founded The Secret Policeman's Ball benefit shows to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. Early life. Cleese was born in Weston- super- Mare, Somerset, the only child of Reginald Francis Cleese (1. Muriel Evelyn (n. When he was 1. 3, he was awarded an exhibition at Clifton College, an English public school in Bristol. He was already more than 6 feet (1. Cleese allegedly defaced the school grounds, as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal. Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet. I believe that this moment changed my perspective on the world. He also joined the Cambridge Footlights. He recalled that he went to the Cambridge Guildhall, where each university society had a stall, and went up to the Footlights stall where he was asked if he could sing or dance. He replied . He was then asked . He was also in the cast of the 1. Footlights Revue Double Take! Despite his successes on The Frost Report, his father would send him cuttings from The Daily Telegraph offering management jobs in places like Marks and Spencer. While performing in the musical Half a Sixpence. The success of the Footlights Revue led to the recording of a short series of half- hour radio programmes, called I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which were so popular that the BBC commissioned a regular series with the same title that ran from 1. Cleese returned to Britain and joined the cast. The writing staff chosen for The Frost Report consisted of a number of writers and performers who would go on to make names for themselves in comedy. They included co- performers from I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and future Goodies. Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke- Taylor, and also Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Python members Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. While working on The Frost Report, the future Pythons developed the writing styles that would make their collaboration significant. Cleese's and Chapman's sketches often involved authority figures, some of whom were performed by Cleese, while Jones and Palin were both infatuated with filmed scenes that opened with idyllic countryside panoramas. Idle was one of those charged with writing David Frost's monologue. During this period Cleese met and befriended influential British comedian Peter Cook. It was as a performer on The Frost Report that Cleese achieved his breakthrough on British television as a comedy actor, appearing as the tall, patrician figure in the classic class sketch, contrasting comically in a line- up with the shorter, middle class. Ronnie Barker and the even shorter, working class. Ronnie Corbett. This series was so popular that in 1. Cleese and Chapman were invited to work as writers and performers with Brooke- Taylor and Feldman on At Last the 1. Show. These series were successful, and in 1. Cleese and Chapman were offered their very own series. However, owing to Chapman's alcoholism, Cleese found himself bearing an increasing workload in the partnership and was, therefore, unenthusiastic about doing a series with just the two of them. He had found working with Palin on The Frost Report an enjoyable experience and invited him to join the series. Palin had previously been working on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle and Jones, with Terry Gilliam creating the animations. The four of them had, on the back of the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set, been offered a series for Thames Television, which they were waiting to begin when Cleese's offer arrived. Palin agreed to work with Cleese and Chapman in the meantime, bringing with him Gilliam, Jones, and Idle. Monty Python. Monty Python's Flying Circus ran for four seasons from October 1. December 1. 97. 4 on BBC Television, though Cleese quit the show after the third. Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticated and a stressed- out loony. He portrayed the former as a series of announcers, TV show hosts, and government officials (for example, . The latter is perhaps best represented in the . He was also known for his working class . He is also seen as the opening announcer with the now famous line . A classic example of this is the . It was Chapman's suggestion to change the faulty item into a dead parrot, and he also suggested that the parrot be specifically a . Like Chapman, Cleese's poker face clipped middle class accent, and intimidating height allowed him to appear convincingly as a variety of authority figures, such as policemen, detectives, Nazi officers or government officials—which he would then proceed to undermine. Most famously, in the . All of these roles were opposite Palin (who Cleese often claims is his favourite Python to work with)—the comic contrast between the towering Cleese's crazed aggression and the shorter Palin's shuffling inoffensiveness is a common feature in the series. Occasionally, the typical Cleese–Palin dynamic is reversed, as in . He felt, too, that the show's scripts had declined in quality. For these reasons, he became restless and decided to move on. Though he stayed for the third series, he officially left the group before the fourth season. Despite this, he remained friendly with the group, and all six began writing Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Cleese received a credit on three episodes of the fourth series which used material from these sessions, though he was officially unconnected with the fourth series. Cleese returned to the troupe to co- write and co- star in the Monty Python films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and participated in various live performances over the years. Post- Python activities. From 1. 97. 0 to 1. Cleese served as rector of the University of St Andrews. For instance, the rector was traditionally entitled to appoint an . Cleese changed this into a position for a student, elected across campus by the student body, resulting in direct access and representation for the student body. The differences between the two physically (the tall, lean Cleese and the short, stout Dawson) and socially (the public school, and then Cambridge- educated Cleese and the working class, self- educated Mancunian Dawson) were marked, but both worked well together from series 8 onwards until the series ended in 1. The series won three BAFTA awards when produced and in 2. British Film Institute's list of the 1. Greatest British Television Programmes. The series also featured Prunella Scales as Basil's acerbic wife Sybil, Andrew Sachs as the much abused Spanish waiter Manuel (. Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real person, Donald Sinclair, whom he had encountered in 1. Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay while filming inserts for their television series. Reportedly, Cleese was inspired by Sinclair's mantra, . During the Pythons' stay, Sinclair allegedly threw Idle's briefcase out of the hotel . Despite this, a second series did not air until 1. Cleese's marriage to Booth had ended, but they revived their collaboration for the second series. Fawlty Towers consisted of only twelve episodes; Cleese and Booth both maintain that this was to avoid compromising the quality of the series. In December 1. 97. Cleese appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show. In the same year, Cleese played Petruchio, in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in the BBC Television Shakespeare series. In 1. 98. 1 he starred with Sean Connery and Michael Palin in the Terry Gilliam- directed Time Bandits as Robin Hood. He also participated in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1. The Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International. In 1. 98. 5, Cleese had a small dramatic role as a sheriff in Silverado, which had an all- star cast that included Kevin Kline, with whom he would star in A Fish Called Wanda three years later. In 1. 98. 6, he starred in Clockwise as an uptight school headmaster obsessed with punctuality and constantly getting into trouble during a journey to speak at the Headmasters' Conference. Timed with the 1. UK elections, he appeared in a video promoting proportional representation. Wanda was a commercial and critical success, and Cleese was nominated for an Academy Award for his script. Cynthia Cleese starred as Leach's daughter. Graham Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1. Cleese, Michael Palin, Peter Cook, and Chapman's partner David Sherlock, witnessed Chapman's death. Chapman's death occurred a day before the 2. Flying Circus, with Jones commenting, . He also produced and acted in a number of successful business training films, including Meetings, Bloody Meetings, and More Bloody Meetings. These were produced by his company Video Arts.
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