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RODEO NEWS
Frank Gasser’s Washington (head) trapeze act, one of 21 acts he presented in his performing lifetime.
plan to re-group and go back out again sometime next year.
Everyone hopes so. You can’t run
a circus as good as Lennons for
so long, and just disappear.
From all in the game, it’s “best wishes, and see you down the track.”
Hula hoops on the Rolling Globes.
Beau and Sim Pearson with Disco Dogs. They’ve now taken over the liberty pony and camel acts at Hudson’s Circus.
Infamous
Pepe Ashton’s Australian cabaret-circus ‘Infamous’ ended its three-month American season at Savannah, Georgia, on May 28th.
The first Australian circus production to open in the USA since Wirths in 1893, the 30-performer troupe flew into Australia in mid-June.
Pepe, seventh-generation member of the Ashtons Circus clan, is believed to be the only person to perform a front somersault on the top of a spinning Wheel of Death. Opening dates in Australia are to be announced soon.
Solo elephant act, Australia, 1990s.
European presentation costuming for clowns.
Hudson Bus: Shane Lennon has taken promotion to a new level in March, with double-deck signs on half a dozen buses, all over the Gold Coast. Clown Goldie featured on signage, for four weeks, while Hudson’s Circus played Coomera, then another month with the show at Robina, April / May.
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