According to her obituary by The Guardian, Gladys became a lion tamer for Bailey Brothers’ Circus, where she met and married John Aloysius Wall. They traveled around the world. The couple had ...

Pezon, the lion tamer, died at the age of seventy-three. He was a highly popular character here, and for more than forty years the fairs near the Bastile -- those of Clichy, Montmartre ...

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from A Thousand Blows. A Thousand Blows delves into the world of illicit boxing, the antics of an all-female gang of thieves and a boxer’s rise to stardom.