From Richard Flint #3

Konyot%20acts, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. The family returned to Europe for 1913 and re-opened their own circus now styled more like an American wild west show. The vicissitudes of two world wars and the inflationary 1920s created difficulties for the family as it did for many show folk in Europe, a story not yet adequately told. In 1940 Arthur with daughter Dorita and son Alexander were re-engaged for Ringling and, like Alfred Court with his cat acts, made a hair-breadth escape from embattled Europe. They and the family show had been having a difficult time in eastern Europe what with the hatred between various ethnic groups and Hitler’s rise. Brother Adolph was swallowed up in the bitterness and never seen again, likely part of Hitler’s ethnic cleansing (his mother was from the Jewish circus family Blumenfeld). Arthur stayed with Ringling through the 1944 season, then played independent dates before moving to Chicago in the 1950s to open his own equestrian center. Among the horses he trained was Arthur Godfrey’s “Goldie” which I remember seeing on stake night at the Eastern States Exposition horse show about 1958.