Originally from Hungary, the Spessierts anglicized their name to Spessardy and had a small travelling circus and menagerie, sometimes containing tigers and bears, sometimes (as in American vaudeville) only bears. We first find mention of them in London’s “Greater Britain” Exhibition in 1899. In the first decade of the 20th century we see them playing […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:29AM on July 20, 2013