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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 40559, member: 85&quot;]Your 1920s guess appears to be correct.</p><p>Looks like Wirth and Leitzel weren&#039;t with Ringling very long.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The Wirth troupe opened with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden in April 1926. Variety singled May, Leitzel, and Colleano as the outstanding features of the program that year. May’s act was spiced with a &quot;Charleston&quot; that she executed on the bareback of her swift white horse. After 1927, May and her troupe toured county fairs and indoor circuses. In the winter of 1931 her troupe was featured with the short-lived <a href="http://www.circopedia.org/index.php?title=St._Leon_Bros._Circus&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.circopedia.org/index.php?title=St._Leon_Bros._Circus&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">St. Leon &quot;</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Taken from the bottom of this article</p><p><a href="http://www.circopedia.org/May_Wirth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.circopedia.org/May_Wirth" rel="nofollow">http://www.circopedia.org/May_Wirth</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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