Saturday, November 13, 2021

SHOW PAPER #4

4 comments:

Tony Greiner said...

If memory serves, he was a member of the Cristiani riding troupe.

Roger Smith said...

I met one Baghongi, who clowned on Cristiani in the 1950s, but I doubt he went back to Barnum & Bailey.

Charles Hanson said...

I never Bagonghi as part of the Cristiani Riding Troupe. However, he did have a clever clown routine with a stick and a coke bottle. He would balance the coke bottle on the end of the stick,,,surviving pratfalls and the bottle never fell off. As Bagonghi left the tent he swung the stick over his shoulder with the coke bottle still intact. The audience knew they had been duped and loved it....Always brought the house down. Kenny Dodd would be the one to ask about Bagonghi as far as being in a riding act in his earlier years.

Charles Hanson said...

I never saw Bagonghi as part of etc etc