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| 011842f | One exhibition to which Tom Norman became particularly attached was his family of midgets. It consisted of two midgets, billed as man and wife and always brought into town in a specially constructed miniature coach drawn by ponies. In each town on the tour he made a point of closing the show down for a few days so as to allow the lady midget to 'give birth to her baby'. A new-born infant would then be hired to stand in for the hypothetical .. | Peter Ford | ||
| 0ae547c | fulfilled with the grand opening there, on 3 September 1883, of the Gaiety Palace of Varieties. | Peter Ford | ||
| 417ced7 | So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history. | Peter Ford |