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circus: Bertram Mills Christmas Circus D. Kossmeyer's circus equestrian act Patricia Bourne stands in front of a row of lions balanced on their hind legs on stools, training them inside a circus cage at Bertram Mills Circus, London. Charley Baumann holds a hoop as a Bengal tiger leaps through it during a circus act, with another tiger sitting on a platform in the background under stage lights.
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Bertram Mills Circus

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circus: Bertram Mills Christmas Circus
circus: Bertram Mills Christmas Circus Elephants perform at the Bertram Mills Christmas Circus, 1963.

Bertram Mills was an English circus entrepreneur who staged a circus at London's Olympia Theatre for 18 years, from 1920 to 1937. He also toured the British Isles with his circus. Mills formed his own company after World War I, and his impromptu circus was an immediate success. In 1929, he launched the Bertram Mills Tenting Circus, which toured the provinces and required extensive transportation for performers, animals, and equipment. After his death in 1938, his sons continued to operate the circus.1

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