In post-war years, audiences came to love the regular visits of Europe’s greatest horsemen, the Knies and the Schumanns; great animal trainers like Togare, Vojtek Trubka, Gerd Siemoneit, and Eugen Weidman; and bareback riding stars like the Cumberlands, and the Carolis—who were also the inimitable clowns, The Francescos. His programs were not, however, without occasional failures, and in 1964, a last-ditch attempt to modernise the circus—a move he opposed but which his brother, Bernard, and the other co-directors approved—by booking a pop group, the Barron Knights, who did impersonations of other famous pop groups of the time, was the biggest mistake to which he later admitted.
Well I remember the Barron Nights, but I don't remember anything at all about the rest of the show. Although now I come to think of it, did the Daleks make an appearance??
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In post-war years, audiences came to love the regular visits of Europe’s greatest horsemen, the Knies and the Schumanns; great animal trainers like Togare, Vojtek Trubka, Gerd Siemoneit, and Eugen Weidman; and bareback riding stars like the Cumberlands, and the Carolis—who were also the inimitable clowns, The Francescos.
His programs were not, however, without occasional failures, and in 1964, a last-ditch attempt to modernise the circus—a move he opposed but which his brother, Bernard, and the other co-directors approved—by booking a pop group, the Barron Knights, who did impersonations of other famous pop groups of the time, was the biggest mistake to which he later admitted.
Well I remember the Barron Nights, but I don't remember anything at all about the rest of the show. Although now I come to think of it, did the Daleks make an appearance??