Rebo arrived just as the rest of the circus troupe began to gather behind the beast master.

Then there was an Italian circus troupe, one of the members a young girl with whom the radioman fell in love.

The circus troupe had brought a fairly good band with them, and to its music the gay, happy throng were dancing.

The fund also owns 20 percent of Canadian circus troupe Cirque du Soleil and a majority of Gulf Stream Asset Management LLC, Bloomberg reported.

The St Patrick's Festival kicks off in Dublin tonight with an open-air musical extravaganza at Smithfield courtesy of the Spanish-Argentinian circus troupe Grupo Puja.

The brief blaze destroyed 17 of the tiles on the Kodak stage, and prompted panicky, heated discussions between the Oscar crew and the circus troupe.