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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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381: 657: 472: 1429:, a place frequented by ships' captains, drovers, and a variety of businessmen. Hachaliah Bailey of Somers, New York, regularly stayed at the Bull's Head when he took his cattle to the abattoir, which was located nearby. The newspaper reports that the first elephant was sold to a 'Mister Owen.' Unfortunately, they gave no other information about the man, nor did they tell what he did with the elephant he bought, but Hachaliah Bailey's business partner and brother-in-law was named Owen. .... P. T. Barnum, not often cited for his honesty, nevertheless made an accurate statement when he called Hach Bailey the father of the American circus. As a boy, Barnum had worked as a ticket seller for the Somers drover turned showman. 322: 860: 42: 892: 525: 967:. Ringling estimated that 150 employees were on board at the time of the accident; fifteen received minor injuries, and clown Ceslee Conkling and elephant trainer Ted Svertesky were killed. The animals were not injured due to the nature of the derailment. The cars carrying the horses and elephants were at the front of the train because otherwise their weight could derail the train, and the other animals were carried at the back of the train. The NTSB’s report on the accident concluded that the train derailed due to a 1077: 464: 573: 1085: 517:, stating that he was "a scientist, not an actor." Though there was a threat of a strike if he did not join the union, he maintained that he would not compromise his principles, saying, "Don't get me wrong. I'm with the working man. I worked like a dog once myself. And my heart is with the fellow who works. But I don't want some ... union delegate telling me when to get on and off an elephant." Eventually, the union gave Buck a special dispensation to introduce 303: 2636:... Ringling had become the target of animal protection groups that claimed it mistreated its elephants, and the two sides soon locked in a 14-year legal battle so cutthroat it involved secret informants paid by animal groups and a former CIA official who was paid by Ringling's parent company, Feld Entertainment, to spy on activists and a journalist. The litigation ended with several animal groups paying a $ 16 million settlement to Feld. 2040:
Follies, Holiday on Ice and the new Walt Disney's World on Ice. ...Irvin Feld was a record and music promoter and music store chain owner before becoming involved with the circus in 1956. In 1967, he and a brother acquired the company's total assets from the Ringling and North families for $ 8 million. Two years later, the circus became a publicly held corporation, and in 1971 the company was sold to Mattel for $ 50 million in stock
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Sparks, Hagenbeck-Wallace, and John Robinson. ... On July 16, 1956, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the financially troubled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey gave its last performance under their enormous big top. John Ringling North commented at that time "the tented circus as it exists today is, in my opinion, a thing of the past."
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and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows" debuted in New York City. The posters declared, "The Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows and the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth are now combined into one record-breaking giant of all exhibitions." Charles E. Ringling died in 1926, but the circus flourished through the
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While the animal activists never prevailed against Ringling in court, they were victorious outside. The allegations of elephant abuse prompted municipalities around the country to ban elephant bullhooks – a sharp metal tool used by handlers – or to prohibit wild animal performances altogether, as Los
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had teamed up with James E. Cooper to create the Cooper and Bailey Circus in the 1860s. The Cooper and Bailey Circus became the chief competitor to Barnum's circus. As Bailey's circus was outperforming his, Barnum sought to merge the circuses. The two groups agreed to combine their shows on March 28,
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In 2015, Ringling Bros. announced it would stop using elephants in its shows. The lumbering mammals delivered their final performances last May – dancing, spinning and standing on pedestals at the command of the ringmaster – and then were retired to a reserve in central Florida. The move exacerbated
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in 2007, accusing the groups of conspiracy to harm its business and other illegal acts. In December 2012, the ASPCA agreed to pay the circus $ 9.2 million to settle its part of the lawsuit. The 14-year course of litigation came to an end in May 2014 when The Humane Society of the United States and a
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in its circus. These allegations were based primarily on the testimony of a circus barn worker. After years of litigation and a six-week non-jury trial, the Court dismissed the suit in a written decision in 2009, finding that the barn worker did not have standing to file suit. (ASPCA v. Feld Entm’t,
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In the 1950s, there was one gigantic train system comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load consisted of 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up. The second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and
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Each train presented a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 – the first year of P.T. Barnum's show. The Blue Tour presented the even-numbered editions on a two-year tour, beginning each even-numbered year, and the Red Tour
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magazine. Feld, he said, had hired people to manipulate her whole life over the past eight years. Feld had spent a lot of money on it, he said. He may have even tried to destroy her marriage. In fact, Pottker would eventually learn of a massive dirty tricks operation, involving former CIA officials
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An inspection report alleged that a female Asian elephant, Banko, was forced to perform at a show in Los Angeles despite a diagnosis of sand colic and observations that she appeared to be suffering abdominal discomfort. The inspection reports also cited splintered floors and rusted cages. Following
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Eight months after it retired the elephants, it was announced in January 2017, that the circus would do 30 more performances, lay off more than 462 employees between March and May 2017 and then close. The circus cited steeply declining ticket sales associated with the loss of the elephants combined
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were the only remaining brothers of the five who founded the circus. They decided that it was too difficult to run the two circuses independently because of labour shortages and complications to rail travel brought about by American involvement in World War I, and on March 29, 1919, "Ringling Bros.
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In 1929, reacting to the fact that his competitor, the American Circus Corporation, had signed a contract to perform in New York's Madison Square Garden, Ringling purchased American Circus for $ 1.7 million. In one fell swoop, Ringling had absorbed five major shows: Sells-Floto, Al G. Barnes,
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Mattel Inc. said that it had sold Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. for $ 22.8 million to a family that had owned the circus and has been in its management for 26 years. Two members of the family, Irvin Feld and his son, Kenneth, said that the deal included the circus, Ice
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John Ringling North, 81, flamboyant, fast-talking showman who from 1937 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1967 ran "The Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, started by his five uncles in 1884; of a stroke; in Brussels. North took over the debt-spangled show after the
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death of his last uncle, John Ringling, and modernized it with such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the "vehemently vicious" 550-lb. gorilla that drew more than 40 million circusgoers. In 1956, North folded the big top and reincarnated the show for new arenas of the air-conditioned era.
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on whose Board of Trustees Barnum served as one of Tufts' first trustees. The Barnum Museum of Natural History opened in 1884 on the Tufts campus and Jumbo was a prominent part of the display. To this day the Tufts athletic mascot is Jumbo and its athletic teams are referred to as the "Jumbos".
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By May 1980, the company expanded to three circuses by adding the one-ring International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo that debuted in Japan and Australia. The Felds bought the circus back in 1982 less Circus World. Irvin Feld died in 1984 and the company has since been run by Kenneth.
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1881. Initially named "P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United", it was eventually shortened to "Barnum and Bailey's Circus". Bailey was instrumental in acquiring
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In October 2021, Feld Entertainment Chairman and CEO Kenneth Feld and COO Juliette Feld Grossman announced that the circus would be relaunched in 2023, without animal performances. On September 29, 2023, after a six-year hiatus, the relaunched circus kicked off at
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magazine wrote "a magical era had passed forever." ... John Ringling North, an executor of his uncle's estate, became president of the show in 1937, a position he held until 1943 when his cousin, Robert, became president. John took the position once again in
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Irvin Feld, 66, the son of East European immigrants who grew up to be a major American impresario and an heir in spirit to the legendary P.T. Barnum as the owner and operator of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, died yesterday in a Venice, Fla.,
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The post-war prosperity enjoyed by the rest of the nation was not shared by the circus as crowds dwindled and costs increased. Public tastes, influenced by the movies and television, abandoned the circus, which gave its last performance under the big top in
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Angeles recently moved to do. After Ringling retired its last pachyderms to a company-owned elephant conservation center in Florida, ticket sales declined much more than Feld expected, and the company announced in January that Ringling would close for good.
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magazine reported that "a magical era had passed forever". In 1956, when John Ringling North and Arthur Concello moved the circus from a tent show to an indoor operation, Irvin Feld was one of several promoters hired to work the advance for select dates.
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ended in 2014 with the circus winning a total of $ 25.2 million in settlements. In March 2015, the circus announced that all elephants would be retired in 2018 to the CEC, but Ringling accelerated the decision and retired the elephants in May 2016.
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named Suzy who had previously starred in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, escaped from a convoy of trucks transporting her from Florida to Memphis International Airport and was fatally shot by police after attacking a nearby dog.
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In May 2022, Feld Entertainment announced that the circus would resume operations in the fall of 2023 with a tour of 50 cities. The circus said the new show would debut as a "multi-platform entertainment franchise".
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From 2003 to 2015, the circus also operated a truck-based Gold Tour presenting a scaled-back, single-ring version of the show designed to serve smaller markets deemed incapable of supporting the three-ring versions.
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these inspections and complaints filed with the USDA by PETA, the company agreed to pay a $ 270,000 fine, the largest civil penalty ever assessed against an animal exhibitor under the Animal Welfare Act.
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Meanwhile, the circus learned during the trial that the animal rights groups had paid the barn worker $ 190,000 to be a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The circus then sued the animal rights groups under the
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John Ringling, head of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum Bailey Combined Circus, has purchased the five circuses, with Winter quarters, of the American Circus Corporation, it was learned yesterday.
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has testified in court that he worked as a consultant in the early 1990s for Kenneth Feld and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was involved in the surveillance of
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and Ernest Martin, Broadway producers, brought suit in New York State Supreme Court yesterday to cancel the sale of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus to Irvin and
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recreational subsidiary, bought the combined shows in January 1974, and the opening was further pushed back to 1975. While the Circus Showcase for Circus World opened on
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at the time, the brothers moved their circus from town to town in small animal-drawn caravans. Their circus rapidly grew and they were soon able to move their circus by
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with high operating costs as reasons for the closure, along with animal cruelty concerns. On May 7, 2017, its "Circus Extreme" tour was shown for the last time at the
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conducted inspections of the circus's animals, facilities, and records, finding non-compliance with the agency's regulations. The allegations, as brought forth by
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Over lunch, Smith recounted a campaign of surveillance and dirty tricks Feld had unleashed on her in the wake of her 1990 magazine piece in the now-defunct
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Nicole Feld became the first female producer of Ringling Circus in 2004. In 2009, Nicole and Alana Feld co-produced the circus. In 2001, a group led by
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It is not an established fact that Old Bet was the first elephant to arrive in America, and quite possibly she was second. An April 1796 publication,
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and the first ever African-American circus troupe, to perform unicycle basketball for 18 years with the circus. Performing unicyclists also included
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When the Ringling Brothers bought the Barnum Bailey show they ... got a monopoly on the circus business in America. They now own outright three ...
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In May 2022, after a five-year hiatus, Feld Entertainment announced that the circus would return touring in the fall of 2023, but with no animals.
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episode titled "The Greatest Show On Earth", later known as "The Weather Show" due to the circus' slogan being used as a title for that episode.
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groups have criticized the circus for their treatment of animals over the years, saying that using them to perform is cruel and unnecessary.
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purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. in 1907 following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
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signed a contract to perform in New York City. John Ringling purchased American Circus, the owner of five circuses, for $ 1.7 million.
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The Ringlings purchased the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth in 1907 and ran the circuses separately until 1919. By that time,
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just before the animals would enter the arena for performances. A tiger trainer was videotaped beating tigers during dress rehearsals.
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persuaded Barnum to come out of retirement to lend his name, know-how, and financial backing to the circus they had already created in
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In early 2022, the circus began auditioning artists for a retooled circus. More than 1,000 acts applied, and auditions were held in
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North's cousin Robert took over as president of the show in 1943 with North resuming the presidency of the circus in 1947.
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Seven tigers, six lions and one leopard were part of a convoy to temporarily move the animals out of Florida ahead of
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In 1968, with the craft of clowning seemingly neglected and with many of the clowns in their 50s, he established the
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in Providence, Rhode Island. The circus's last performance before the hiatus was its "Out of This World" tour at
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in its shows by 2018, stating that the 13 elephants that were part of its shows would be sent to the circus's
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filed charges against Ringling Bros. for forcing a sick elephant to perform. Ringling paid a $ 20,000 fine.
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the show's demise; the elephants' departure ultimately expedited what was a "difficult business decision."
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Karin Brulliard, "Some of America’s top zoos still use bullhooks on elephants. That’s about to change,"
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Barnum died in 1891 and Bailey then purchased the circus from his widow. Bailey continued touring the
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until 1998 before the program was suspended. In February 1999, the circus company started previewing
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for the first time in 1905. He died the next year, and the circus was sold to the Ringling Brothers.
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Besides building up the existing exhibits, Barnum brought in animals to add zoo-like elements, and a
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appears to have established one of the earliest circuses in the United States after he purchased an
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number of other animal rights groups paid a $ 16 million settlement to the circus' parent company,
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until he took his circus to Europe. That tour started on December 27, 1897, and lasted until 1902.
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presented the odd-numbered editions on the same two-year tour, beginning each odd-numbered year.
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Railroad Accident Report: Derailment of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Train
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to use the rails to operate in 1942, in spite of travel restrictions imposed as a result of
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In 2004, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey were investigated following the death of a
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On January 13, 1994, eighteen cars of the circus train derailed while traveling between
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Old Bet was the first circus elephant in America whose existence is documented by name.
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From Barnum & Bailey to Feld: The Creative Evolution of the Greatest Show on Earth
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who died from heat and lack of water while the circus train was traveling through the
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Jones, Charisse (March 6, 2015). "Circus' pachyderms to pack it in". State-by-state.
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company in 1971 for $ 40 million, with the Feld family retained as management.
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sideshow workers. The third section had 19 sleeping cars for the performers.
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A poster from 1898, advertising a "troupe of very remarkable trained pigs"
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Productions, the program ran on Tuesday evenings for thirty episodes on
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joined the company and became a co-producer. The circus was sold to the
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sued the circus over alleged mistreatment of elephants. The suit and a
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Irvin Feld Has Made a Fading Circus the Greatest Show on Earth Again"
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus's logo as of the 2020s.
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began in November 2016. The film was released on December 20, 2017.
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After 1957, the circus no longer exhibited under its own portable "
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first brought the circus to the United States from Great Britain.
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Sullivan, Emmet G., United States District Judge (July 9, 2012).
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Rosen, Marty; Testerman, Jeff; Adair, Bill (November 19, 2014).
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In March 2015, Feld Entertainment announced it would stop using
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The company was taken public in 1969. In 1970, Feld's only son
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After Jumbo died, Barnum donated his taxidermied remains to
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and operatives, that would target Ringling enemies such as
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was in development. Michael Gracey was set to direct, with
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announced that a biographical musical drama film entitled
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in the role of Charlton Heston's character. Produced by
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John Ringling had the circus move its headquarters to
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shows. In 1959, Ringling Bros. started wintering in
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Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus

Ringling brothers
P. T. Barnum
James Anthony Bailey
Feld Entertainment
Jonathan Lee Iverson
Ellenton, Florida
www.ringling.com
circus
P. T. Barnum
James Anthony Bailey
Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows
Ringling brothers
big top
Irvin Feld
Roy Hofheinz
Mattel
Feld Entertainment
Kenneth Feld
Ellenton, Florida
animal rights
operating costs
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Bali tiger

Hachaliah Bailey
African elephant
John Bill Ricketts

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