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Con Colleano on tightwire c1939

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Con Colleano on tightwire c1939

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Colleano, Con

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Circus

Circus has been part of Sydney's entertainment since the 1840s and hardly a year has passed since then without a circus in town. Sydney performers have gone on to international careers in the arena and have returned triumphant, and circus skills and acts became part of the city's thriving vaudeville and theatre scene.

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Colleano, Con

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Aboriginal man who achieved fame as an acclaimed tightrope walker in the 1920s and 1930s as part of the Colleano's All Star Circus and as a solo act, in Australia and the United States of America.