Circus Biographies N- R. Many of these were taken from the New York Clipper, Billboard, various newspapers. Note these sources will have typographical errors, the transcription will also have typos. All information should be checked with additional sources. Billboard, May 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). After much practice, Kaichi presented his act of going both up and down steps on his head. He was with Gollmar, Hagenbeck- Wallace, Sells- Floto, Tom Mix, Sparks, Ringling- Barnum and others.
He also appeared with tubling or acrobatic troups. Later he worked with Paul Jung in clown alley, behind the scenes working the clown props. When he retired he returned to Japan. Died September 5, 1. Circus Report, October 8, 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Natalie, was born in Salonico, Turkey, but is of Grecian parentage. His father was the proprietor of a famous circus company of that country. Natalie’s induction into the business as a performer was natural, and at a very early age we find him doing the features peculiar to his country. Natalie came to the United States, and astonished the audiences of a number of circuses with his remarkable pyramid performances. He has been with the Ringling Brothers four years, the past three of which he has introduced in his clever pantomimic work the funny performing pigs that make such a hit during the performances of the Ringling Bros.’ Great Circus. Offical Route Book of Ringling Bros. World’s Greatest Railroad Shows, Season of 1. Buffalo, NY: Courier Co., 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Nathans, a daughter of Levi J. North, professionally known as Sophia Victoria, was granted a decree of absolute divorce from Philo Nathans, Dec. New York Clipper, December 2. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Looking for tickets for 'circus'? Search at Ticketmaster.com, the number one source for concerts, sports, arts, theater, theatre, broadway shows, family event tickets on online. Ride an elephant or pony, get your face painted and meet the circus stars up close and in person. Lima (OH) Lima (OH) Daily News, May 2. Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel, May 2. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Nederweld, German dog and monkey act with Barnum & Bailey, 1. Logansport (IN) Reporter, May 2. Researcher note: His name is Simon Nederveld. So he came from Holland (The Netherlands), not from Germany. In 1. 90. 5 he worked in Berlin (I don’t know the name of the circus). Simon emigrated at age 2. US by ship Minnehaha, leaving Southampton (UK) on 5 Feb 1. New York (US) on 1. Feb 1. 91. 0. Kind regards, Wouter Blees (my great grandfather was his older brother)Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Billboard, June 1. TRAVIS PASTRANA GOES ALL-IN WITH NITRO CIRCUS PARTNERSHIP. Pastrana Now Exclusive Athlete for Nitro Circus Brand. Exclusive Consumer Products Line Featuring Headwear and Apparel Coming Soon. LOS ANGELES, CA (Wednesday.Billboard, April 2. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Nelson and the rest of the family are at home in Mt. Billboard, December 7, 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). He appeared in films and with the Ringling show, Hagenbeck- Wallace and Al G. Died June 1. 6 at Ventura, California. Circus Report, June 3. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Billboard, June 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). One of the original members of the Young Nelsons of the original Nelson Family, an acrobatic- risley act started by Paul Nelson on the Lewis Bros. Was on the Lewis Bros., Cole Bros, and appeared at parks and fairs. She was a grandaughter of Nora Hathaway, principal resin back rider who trouped with the Ringling show, Hagenbeck- Wallace and Forepaugh & Sells. Worked the sideshow on Lewis Bros. Assisted Harris Reynolds in his tight wire performance with the Nelson Troupe. Born July 7, 1. 92. September 1. 6, 1. Marysville, California, burial at Fremont Township Cemetery. Circus Report, February 1. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Clemens, Michigan; Nelsons, nine in number, Walter L. Main, 1. 90. 4; Flying Nelsons, aerial, Gollmar Bros, 1. Nelson Family, acrobats, Sells- Floto, 1. Flying Nelsons, ten in number, acrobatic company, Hagenbeck- Wallace, 1. Billboard, August 1. Ottumwa (IA) Daily Courier, July 2. Elyria (OH) Reporter, April 2. Sheboygan (WI) Daily Press, July 1. Yuma (AZ) Examiner, April 1. Lima (OH) Daily News, May 2. Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel, May 2. Information should be checked with additional sources Can you add information? Email your documented information for this/these person(s). Sara Warren Nelson, widow of the late Arthur Nelson, retired from the realm of sawdust and spangles to her home in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, in 1. But unlike many retired stars of the circus, Mrs. Nelson had little time for leafing through scrapbooks or reflecting on her long career in show business. Nelson has children and grandchildren carrying on the Nelson family name and traditions, keeping her in close contact with the circus world. Furthermore, the transition from a member of an acrobatic act to the relative quiet of home life, was facilitated by the fact that the Nelsons had maintained their home in Mt. Clemens between seasons for the past 2. Mrs. Nelson and her husband reared a family of six beautiful daughters and a handsome son, who for years composed . Now Mary Lou is the mother of Richard Mader, Jr., which makes Mrs. Nelson a great- grandmother. Nelson was born in London, England, in 1. English pantomime. None of her family had been in show business, but Sara Warren progressed to cycling and skating acts, and when she was 1. Her future husband, Arthur Nelson, was the son of Robert Nelson, Sr., a native of London, who with three associates, formed the acrobatic act known as the Original Nelson family, which came to America in 1. The try- out was in Vancouver, British Columbia, and so well known did the act become known that they were invited to New York City in 1. Dan Rice circus, with which they were associated for the next four years. A risley act is a type of acrobatic skill in which somersaulting acrobats are propelled, caught and balanced on the feet of other performers lying on their backs on pads. They went to India and back to Europe before coming to the United States to remain permanently in 1. In 1. 89. 5 and 1. Ringling Brothers Circus, the act then consisting of nine persons. In the latter year, Arthur Nelson met newly arrived Sara Warren, and they were married on July 9, 1. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Arthur Nelson teamed with Mrs. From 1. 89. 7 to 1. Nelsons were with the Great Wallace Circus, again with Ringling Brothers in 1. Walter L. The troupe left the circus in 1. Hagenbeck- Wallace Circus in 1. The Sells- Floto show featured the Nelsons from 1. Nelson retired to Mt. Clemens, where he and his wife had owned a home since 1. The children included six daughters, Rosina, Oneida, Theol, Estrella, Hilda and Carmencita, and son, Paul, youngest member of the family. The act was with Hagenbeck- Wallace Circus in 1. Australia with Wirth's circus in 1. States with John Robinson from 1. Featured by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1. Theol Nelson, one of the daughters, left the family act to remain with the Ringling show in which she was featured performing a series of backward flip- flaps on the hippodrome track for several years, and she is still with the Ringling show as a performer, as is her daughter, Sally Marlowe. From 1. 92. 9 through 1. Nelsons were featured in the Sparks circus and were with Sells- Floto in 1. Zack Terrell was manager. Estrella, Carmencita and Paul Nelson were featured in the Standard Oil Company circus, managed by Terrell at the Chicago World's Fair in 1. Terrell and Jess Adkins organized Cole Brothers Circus in 1. Nelson family was reunited to present their featured risley act for their last season. Nelson has lived at Mount Clemens, where one daughter, Rosena, now Mrs. George Brown, has lived since her marriage and retirement from the circus. Nelson met her husband on the Ringling Brothers Circus, so have three of her daughters and a granddaughter met and were married to men associated with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined circus in later years. The daughters are Hilda, who is Mrs. Noyelles Burkhart, wife of a legal adjuster of the Ringling show; Theol, who is the wife of Ray Marlowe, for years in charge of reserved seat ticket sales for the show; and Estrella, wife of Zack Terrell, who managed the Sells- Floto Circus for the Ringling interests for years before he owned his own show. The granddaughter is Mary Lou Burkhart, who was married to Richard Mader, while he was associated with the Ringling show. Nelson and two daughters, Oneida and Carmencita, have passed away since the breaking up of the family act. The son, Paul Nelson, headed an acrobatic act billed as The Nelson family on Cole Brothers Circus, for several years after the family retired, and later was principal horse trainer for the show, owned by his brother- in- law. Terrell sold the circus two years ago, and retired to the Terrell farm home at Owensboro, Kentucky, Paul Nelson went to the Dailey Brothers Circus, where he is equestrian director. If you’re here, then you most likely enjoy all of this amazing and crazy content without stopping to think about. Nitro Staff Photographer Mark Watson would say he’s just fine with that. But we’d be nothing without the images we. Shots like this one of Travis Pastrana and Beau Bamburg. The Aussie native has. These days he still surfs, mountain bikes, and has recently gotten into canyoneering. I’m not as good as those guys, so don’t try to jump off the same cliff,” he says. To be honest, if you get a bluebird day in big mountains and someone who knows what they’re doing, it’s hard to take a bad photo. So maybe it’s because it’s easy that I love it,” he says, laughing. That’s not a bad job to have.”Big- mountain skiing on Mt. Cook in New Zealand. Lately he’s been pursuing canyoneering more, because he loves the challenge of that too. He also just started dabbling in. He says he was into science and photography. He’s been photographing. That Red Bull gig is where he honed his skills photographing. He recalls testing out different setups with Robbie Maddison back in the early days. He’d missed the initial email, which was a straight- up job offer, because he was off on an assignment — “Chile or somewhere,” he says. And so when Nitro followed up, he thought that. He thought they would have. I thought we were just having a coffee,'” he says. They realized the miscommunication and it was all good, but it meant he had to hustle to get ready. It was a fair bloody initiation, I can certainly tell you that,” he says. You’re on a bus living with us, breathing, eating, and shooting. But, you know, I must have liked it — I’m still here.”That ability to adapt quickly to fluctuating circumstances. It’s actually a little bit easier, but you end up with a whole lot of shots you don’t want,” he says. It wasn’t many years ago when that wasn’t possible.” On this last tour he. He describes how flashes can make the lighting perfect, but the margin for error is much tighter — you have to time the shot exactly right or you’ve missed, because flashes can’t reset fast enough to shoot multiple frames per second like you can with ambient lighting and a ramped- up ISO. Check it out (click the image for a bigger shot): Both photos are awesome in their own way, but the difference is clear. The Oslo shots with the new technology almost look fake. We asked him which photo style he prefers. You’re going to be out of the game in photography pretty quick if you turn up to, you know, to Prague, and the flashes don’t work and you go, . What Prague did was forced me to go, . You might get a run in with an FMX guy, and you kinda go, all right, they’re going into their trick, and you time it in your head, and you go, ! That’s when they’re gonna kick with their leg.’ And you know, without having seen the flashes go off or anything, you know. I’ll know I missed it without even looking at the camera.” And the riders aren’t shy about letting him know later when a shot is off. Look at the dust coming off the kicker.’ And they’ll be like, . If you keep missing it, you won’t be shooting action sports for long,” he adds, laughing. But Watto makes more than he misses these days, and that’s one of the reasons the Crew loves to have him on tour. His experience shooting for Nitro has given him the insight into the timing of shots, the types of things these athletes want to see, and he’s great about getting them images. Nitro FMX veteran Steve Mini, who we know is specifically interested in everyone on tour getting along really well, gives Watto the thumbs- up both professionally and personally: “Watto’s a legend. Best photographer in the business, and a real good guy to hang with.” And Nitro’s Josh Sheehan says. He’s always capturing brilliant shots at the right time. But you have to be careful, because he also gets shots of you when you aren’t expecting it.”Josh Sheehan. Watto also has only positive things to say about. Anyone that’s involved in adventure or action sports and someone says, . The buses that were supposed to pick them up couldn’t get to them. He tells a story about one of the Crew getting seasick and having “a full spew” while four or five of them were in a shark cage surrounded by giant great whites. He tells another story about what sounds like an epic scooter pile- up in the French Riviera en route to Monaco. But the story that seems to get him the most, and the one we like the best, is about hollandaise sauce.“MY JOB IS TO TELL A STORY.”It was the first or second tour he was on, and he believes they were in New Zealand, maybe Christchurch. Watto decided he was going to skip the group breakfast and go grab a bite on his own, so he went down the road to a little cafe.“I was sitting in this sort of trendy cafe, and I ordered eggs benedict — and that does come into the story, which is why I told you that,” he says, laughing. And for those who do or don’t know Clinton, he’s one of the funniest blokes, good bloke, but a rural, country Australia freestyle motocross rider, tattooed all over. And believe it or not, Clinton Moore is a bit of a guru on how to cook eggs benedict. We had a full one- hour conversation and he’s like, . You gotta stir it, you gotta keep stirring it, and you gotta add the vinegar at the right time.’ And I just remember this weirdest moment of sitting in this little trendy cafe . Hit those links for more details, and come see this insanity.
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