Amar and Alana – Fine Balancing

Amar and Alana were a typical duo Speciality Act that could perform equally successfully be it top Variety theatres or circus. This would be with a touring circus during the post war period.

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Husband and wife team Reco and May not only toured one of Britain’s most successful smaller circuses during the 1940s they also easily transferred to the Variety stage – a true Variety and Circus act. This is Reco in his tramp clown costume on the wire at a certain theatre. Actually he suffered a deformed foot but used this as a means of hiding it for comedy and still managed to walk the wire as you see. Other page shows their touring circus.

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Featured upon a poster for the Bertram Mills Circus Olympia

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