Ringling-Barnum Circus/ "Diamond"

Got quite a bit of comment over the painted elephants, particularly Charlie Gray's Guatamalan spotted elephant. A number of people reminded me of the "Polka Dot Polka" on the Ringling Show in the early 1960's. I saw the show that year and the thing I enjoyed the most was the show girls dancing on the track armed with beach balls the same color as the polka dots which they were choreographed to bounce back and forth with the music. Needless to say the balls would bounce into the rings, between the elephants, under the band stand and so forth.