Monday, November 30, 2015

Elephant Acts #3


6 comments:

Paul G said...

I am getting old. I just saw the little fellow. Nice, different shot.

Richard Reynolds said...

Who are the participants? Is that Col. Joe? Could the man be Sacha Houcke?

Unknown said...

That looks awful having a child lay on a man like that for a cover. It looks like Joe.

Bjorn said...

This is not Col. Joe. This Sahib trained and presented by Kalli Frank.

Richard Reynolds said...

The European circus expert Dominique Jando said this about the photo - - -The act was “Tarzan and Sahib”, presented by Kalli (Tarzan) Frankello, with his son Sony (today, Sony Frankello). The picture is taken at Cirkus Schumann in Copenhagen in 1965, but they worked all over Europe. Sony and Sahib were filmed that year for the movie “Circus Rings Around The World”. What was interesting about the act is that Kalli was a good acrobat, and did handstands on Sahib’s tusks.

Chic Silber said...


Sonni Frankello operates an animal

care facility Platschow Elefantenhof

which is where Col Joe ended up