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His family were poor and worked at the local theatre to supplement the money his father earned as a cobbler. When his father was conscripted to the army in the Russo-Japanese War the five year-old Nicolai started singing for food to avoid starvation. Technically, Coco is an Auguste , the foolish character who is always on the receiving end of buckets of water and custard pies.

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The Auguste often works with the more clever white-faced clown, who always gets the better of him. His eldest son, Michael , a longtime circus "Producing Clown", creator of a much imitated "soap gag" entree, and the Clown who designed the post 's Ronald McDonald , [ 7 ] was by then already using the "Coco" moniker. Michael had made his debut in the ring at 17, as "Coconut" and his sister Helen as "Cocotina" 'cocos' being the Spanish word for grinning face and applied to the coconut because of the three marks on its shell.

Tamara was the founder, along with her husband Ali Hassani, of the first circus in the United Kingdom not to use performing animals. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.