Dolly Jacobscircus performer

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  • circus history ( in circus: Acts of skill )

    ...to a Spanish cadence thrilled American audiences from 1925 until his retirement in 1959; Antoinette Concello, who became the first woman to perform the triple somersault on the trapeze in 1937; and Dolly Jacobs, who began her career in 1976, performing on the Roman rings for the Ringling brothers and Big Apple circuses, and who was the daughter of famous ...

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