The Balasic Family were a troupe of performing acrobats originally from Croatia, whose contributions to the variety stage spanned three generations, from the 1860s through the 1930s. The first generation perfomed as a husband-wife duo called the Merkels. Their son Victor married a Czech circus scion named Paula Enders; starting in the late 1890s they and [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:11AM on November 3, 2012