James Washington “Jim” Myers (1823-1892) was an American equestrian and circus entrepreneur who began his career in the United States.Hewent on to perform in Europe and established the Grand Cirque Américain in Paris. http://www.circopedia.org/Myers_%26_Madigan_Railroad_Circus
1870 in Italy
1871 July – August in Austria
1871 September Pest
1871 November – in Belgium
1872 April Duesseldorf
1872 November- March 1873 – Hamburg, Germany
1873 August – Bremen, Germany
1873 October Austria
1873 November – Breslau, Germany
1874 February – Breslau, Germany
1874 June Czech mentions of a Japanese family in the circus
1874 July – Posen, Germany
1874 September – advertises for a first class Risley troupe for Germany
1874 – October – Winter in Dresden
1875 May – The company consists of 200 people.
The circus has 150 horses, several elephants and lions, many monkeys. and animals. The circus will come to Prague in May, it will be located on Letná and will stay in Prague for only a few days, after which it will go to Pilsen.
1875 June – Of particular interest are the Japanese
court artists Mo-to and Assa, who
achieve extraordinary feats in the field of acrobatics, and the Japanese Gin-Gero
and Ko-mo-Kitsche, whose productions on the bamboo Moravian Correspondent . Brno: G. Gastl, 24.06.1875,
15 (142), p. 4
1875 July “The performance consisted of 18 numbers, the best of which were the performances of two Japanese men in strenuous objects on a carpet still in one place and on a ladder finally torn apart, so that only one side of the ladder remained standing, which one of the Japanese men
balanced on his shoulder and in his teeth , while the other at
the upper end showed his strength with his bold turns” Shumavan 31 July 1875 p 362
1875 July – Vienna
1875 August – Grand Cirque Americain opens in Paris
1875 October – Hamburg
1875 November – tenting season – Paris
1876 April – Myers Circus in Paris included a troupe of Japanese
1876 June – July – Extraordinary bending and balancing feats by the Japanese brothers Gingero and Como Ketchy – Myers’ American Hippodrome at the Crystal Palace London. “extraordinary feats on a bamboo cane”. “The Japanese brothers Moto and Assa brought to Europe from Japan expressly for Mr Myers. ” “We presume they have joints and bones like other human beings but if so, they are so supple and easily reversed that their performance appears simply marvellous.” The Era 2 July p 5
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