Monday, March 19, 2007

From Henry Penndorf

From the "Bulletin Board"...I found your statement about Vicenta Pages and her tiger act moving to the Hometown Edition next season, and a new and bigger cage act taking her place on the Blue Unit's new edition, both interesting and exciting. I am anxious to hear more. Is there any word on who the new trainer might be? What type of act, lions, tigers, mixed? Will the act come from Europe?
For Mr. Cole...In your collection of pictures of Animal Trainers, would you have one of Daniel Raffo and his tigers while he was peforming with Ringling Brothers?

From Buckles:
Odd you would mention Mr.Raffo, his name keeps popping up when the new act with next year's Blue Show is mentioned.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Raffo is now performing with his tigers with the famous Circus Simoneit Barum in Germany, they will be in my city soon. It is his first season with Circus Barum, until this year one of the sons from Sunsan Lacey did the tiger act.

Anonymous said...

I am not Jim Cole, but I have many photos of Daniel Raffo on RBBB which I took. My big complaint is that a number of my photos of Mr. Raffo, including a two page spread showed up in a French circus magazine named, I believe, Cirque. The only photo credit was "Raffo archives". I wrote to those #$%&*@# people told them which photos were mine and that I would greatly appreciate getting proper credit in their magazine. That was a few short years ago. A second request also received no answer. Merde!!!

Paul Gutheil

PS From what I've seen and heard RBBB-Red did very well in NJ and very well in Long Island, despite that nasty snow storm.

Anonymous said...

off the subject of ringling, but in regards to the snow storm, does anyone know how the hanneford show did this past weekend in bethlehem, pa? i heard friday's show was called off.