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Ricardo Bell was the artistic name of Richard Bell Guest (London, January 10, 1858-New York, March 12, 1911) an English clown and entrepreneur, famous in Mexico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After triumphing in Circo Orrín, on of the famous circus of Mexico City and by becoming the most successful show of its kind in the country, Bell founded his own Gran Circo Ricardo Bell. The poet Juan de Dios Peza wrote in El Monitor Republicano about Bell "is more popular than pulque", in an epoch were the pulque was the prefered alcoholic beverage in Mexico