From Jerry Digney #16

VALDO1, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. Pat Valdo--circus handout photo, 1956, announcing his "retirement." Prince Paul & Paul Jung in photo. As i recall, afterwards he remained "Director Emeritus" and was a non-traveling member of the circus until the early 1970s. Valdo first joined, I believe, Barnum & Bailey in 1903 and in 1929 became the talent guru who put the shows together.