Sunday, June 14, 2009

RBBB 1961 Program #6


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7 comments:

dpowhitetiger said...

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?"

Chic Silber said...

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

Mireille. said...

A but 6 week.ago I saw Antoinette,she did look real good, she is still working. doing fine.
mireille.

Dick Flint said...

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

Frank Ferrante said...

Otto never had it so good! ~frank

John Whitfield said...

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.

Frank Ferrante said...

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