The entire Program would be classified as Art Concello people. No doubt Art ran a tight ship. To bad one our Circus Historians never interviewed Art for the REAL Ringling Story...Emmett Kelly once ask me after showing him what I had picked up from the old Ringling Wagons at Frank Goodmans Sarasota Junkyard, "Does Art know you have these things?"
Dave, Concello was interviewed by the late Tom Parkinson in 1973 and the article was run posthumously in Bandwagon, Sept-Oct 2001. Dick Flint Baltimore
Display # 12 lists the Kasten Animals. Wife # 1, Bettina, the daughter. Art hated them. He desparately tried to get them shipped off to South America with that show but Reinholdt was not stupid and split in 1962. Art was, as Vicky Hanneford says, the kingpin. I remember when he took me to one of his friends at a local bank to get my first mortgage. Help the kid out he said. What a guy and what history.
Does anyone know if Ringling's iconic myrthmaker, Felix Adler is the same Felix Adler who wrote so many of The Three Stooges shorts back in the 30's and 40's??? ~frank
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Pat Kirby
Otto Griebling
Antoinette Bisbini
The entire Program would be classified as Art Concello people. No doubt Art ran a tight ship. To bad one our Circus Historians never interviewed Art for the REAL Ringling Story...Emmett Kelly once ask me after showing him what I had picked up from the old Ringling Wagons at Frank Goodmans Sarasota Junkyard, "Does Art know you have these things?"
Also known as "Ali Babba" he
certainly had incredible control
hence the "40 thieves" but there
were probably more
I got to know him quite well
after he "retired" but still
ran several businesses
A but 6 week.ago I saw Antoinette,she did look real good, she is still working. doing fine.
mireille.
Dave,
Concello was interviewed by the late Tom Parkinson in 1973 and the article was run posthumously in Bandwagon, Sept-Oct 2001.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
Otto never had it so good! ~frank
Display # 12 lists the Kasten
Animals. Wife # 1, Bettina, the
daughter. Art hated them. He desparately tried to get them shipped off to South America with
that show but Reinholdt was not
stupid and split in 1962. Art was,
as Vicky Hanneford says, the
kingpin. I remember when he took
me to one of his friends at a local
bank to get my first mortgage. Help the kid out he said. What a
guy and what history.
Does anyone know if Ringling's iconic myrthmaker, Felix Adler is the same Felix Adler who wrote so many of The Three Stooges shorts back in the 30's and 40's??? ~frank
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