Sunday, December 23, 2007

King Bros. Circus (Mexico)


Scan000010612, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

I don't know the date on this program or where it came from so I'm depending on J. Hall and others to fill in some blanks.
This is Tarzan Berosini who worked the Gil Gray elephants and went to Mexico with them in 1967 when they were sold to Atayde.
At this point he was featured with Jesus Fuentes #2 Unit King Bros.
Later someone bank rolled him for a major circus which my wife and I saw in Mexico. Of all the shows I have seen with a theme this one was the best, sort of a "Tarzan's Perilous Adventure". Like Soliel today, all the performers were depicted as characters in a play involved in Tarzan's journey, completely incognito. There were no clowns except Tarzan's sidekick dressed as an African explorer.
There was a "Jane" that managed to constantly get into jackpots and as you heard the jungle drums in the background and the the kids chanting TARZAN!, TARZAN!.......he always arrived in the nick of time.
One of the rescues had something to do with the elephants.

1 comments:

Ryan Easley said...

Buckles,
Did Tarzan take the Gray elephants with him to his own show or did they remain on Atayde? Thank you for the help.