The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
July 23, 1924 in Yuba County, California, USA
December 24, 1905 in Denver, Colorado, USA
April 14, 1923 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, USA
3 May 1898, Lisle, New York, USA
November 25, 1899 in Butte, Montana, USA
28 April 1892, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
August 14, 1903 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
July 10, 1895 in Franklin, Nebraska, USA
April 16, 1898 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
8 July 1911, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 November 1907, Eatonton, Georgia, USA
December 26, 1894 in Columbus, Kansas, USA
9 June 1926, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 August 1895, Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary
13 March 1907, DeSoto, Missouri, USA
8 January 1900, Hannah, North Dakota, USA
July 8, 1893 in Lewiston, Idaho, USA
9 December 1897, Falmouth, Kentucky, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
10 June 1909, New York City, New York, USA
February 7, 1901 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK
13 February 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

