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Billy Smart's Circus

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Billy Smart's Circus brings to Britain and presents to Europe the world's foremost performers in The Greatest Show on Earth.
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The Jester's Jamboree
Britain's youngest showman makes his debut and scores of artists and animals circle the arena.
Aerialistic Extravaganza
Everything happens all the time with eleven aerialists: featuring the Roeber Sisters and starring Alma Piaia.

Cycling Czechmates
The six incomparable Kludskyi.

Acrobats Hilarious
Les Najarros are the fastest and the funniest.

Entry of the Eccentrics
Frank Harty, Speedy Stilts Gonzales, Little Brian, Spuggy, Alby Austin, and The Sloans

The Perilous Pendulum
In the peak of the Big Top are the remarkable revolving Stawickis.

Music and Madness
In the French style from the Impeccable Pipo, Mimile, and Darlo.

Circus in Miniature
Harold's beautiful, wire-walking, cycling, free-flying budgerigars.

Flying Flamenco
The superb Arturo Segura dances, balances, and bounds on a
high-tension tightrope.

The Candle Gag
Incredible markmanship from Portugal's Luftman clowns.

Elephantasia
Billy Smart Jr. presents an unsurpassable spectacle.

Swing High, Swing Lonely
Starring the sensational American Gerard Soules, the most daring solo trapeze artist in the world.

A Living Christmas Card to you from Billy Smart and all the artists

Programme introduced by Harry Towb.
The George Mitchell Singers
(Billy Smart's Circus is appearing at the Queen's Hall, Leeds)
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Contributors

Aerialists:
The Rober Sisters
Aerialist:
Alma Piaia
Cyclists:
null Kludskyi
Acrobatics:
Les Najarros
Clown:
Frank Harty
Performer:
Speedy Stilts Gonzales
Performer:
Little Brian
Performer:
null Spuggy
Clown:
Alby Austin
Performers:
The Sloans
Performers:
null Stawickis
Performers:
Pipo, Mimile, and Darlo
Showman:
Billy Smart Jr.
Trapeze artist:
Gerard Soules
Presenter:
Harry Towb
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Ringmaster:
Ares De Writ
Musical Director:
Jack Ansell
Circus Presentation:
Ronnie Smart
Circus Presentation:
David Smart
Producer:
Derek Burrell-Davis

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