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Adrian St Leon Interview  
Adrian St Leon
 
This interview was recorded on 10 and 12 August 1975 at Adrian's flat at Kirribilli. Adrian at that stage was the last surviving son of Gus St Leon. His recollections, which are remarkably detailed and vivid, are mostly of the Gus St Leon Great United Circus. His memories also embrace the era of the FitzGerald and Wirth circus heyday of the early 1900s, working on the vaudeville circuits in the early 1920s, the American showman Bud Atkinson, and a tour through Queensland about 1934 with O'Donnell and Ray's Pantomime Company. Adrian died in Sydney in 1982.