Born Adelena Lillian Nail in 1926 in Hereford (her first name invented by her mother from the names of her aunts Ada and Lena), she was of Welsh ancestry and the daughter of circus and fairground performers.
The Italian commedia dell'arte entertainment of strolling players in mainly improvised comedy had left its mark on French fairground theatre, although the performers were expelled from France in 1697 for having ventured their satire too close to court topics.
The hats he has taken on and off since as a performer, late-night barfly, all American hobo, fairground huckster, have all suggested several lifetimes of hard-won experience.
Spreading itself nicely across 25 acres, there'll be eight stages, over 1,000 performers, 25 sports, three markets, a huge fairground, a variety of food stalls, twelve bars, a giant bungee and for you sporty lot there's two free gyms.
On the pretext of restoring the missing fairground, the Twits get their own captive monkeys to re-enact traumatic moments from the performers' past.
1731), the English fairground conjurer, and Matthew Buchinger (1674 1739), "The Little Man of Nuremberg"—who exhibited the classic cups and balls effect although he had no arms or legs were the best-known performers in the first half of the century.
Butlins had a fairground.
Fairground Attraction, 145 Main Street, Mount Kisco, (914) 241-4433.
But this is fairground stuff.
