European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Hauenstein Szekeres clowns around faring Angela gets a Shower from played by Bernhard during the Clown act the Littlest on Earth american John still performs As the Frog an act he originated 40 Yean Page 14 the stars and stripes Kominicki staff writer Bernhard Paul is a Little chunkier than his publicity photos would have you but his hair is the a heading toward unruly mass with Center part that cascades to his shoulders in a rust color Celebration of the the mane tops a casual look that leans dangerously toward baggy sport crinkled Cotton pants a pair of dual tone Wing meet him on the Street and parking attendant will Flash through your but Paul is the 38yearold founder of something that goes by the name of circus Roncalli is the kind of circus your parents might its a breath of old a circus about circuses gone theatrical period carefully Woven tapestry of its a tribute to tent shows that Are no longer people say the circus is Paul but i think it is already i know that sounds but if youve studied circus the Way i you would come to the same my circus is a Salute to old the circus i knew As a the things that pleased that fascinated me when i went to the that what Ive tried to put together wooden coloured uniforms with All the and the the smell of a Cotton not plastic like other circuses use but it has a Musty smell that is visitors May miss the smell but they will undoubtedly notice the beautifully glimmering with stained Glass and inlaid a Century old some of collected from barns and junk piles All Over the Toby Tyler would recognize the ticket Barnum the ones used As offices and the wagons filled with and the ghosts of Lon dead parisian commuters would get no respite aboard Roncalli 1870s metro dining now a there is still a fight for the circus was All i Ever wanted to Paul i come from the Countryside outside and the old circuses often travelled it was All i was interested i tried to buy my first circus Wagon from a Gypsy when i was 5 years John a started training for the circus when he was began performing As a wire Walker at age he made his living standing on one it was a he no one can stand on one you hid this device in your hand and it looked like you were standing on one that All i did for a come stand on the he is a Little but with a relaxed strength about you offer to Arm wrestle Hes lived outside the United states for so Long his English is slightly i was born in but we moved to Russia when i was just old enough to my father was a wire a Good i worked in his on the High 150 feet no he i did my father fell in 1935 and was but i ended up staying there for 21 the russian people Are Beautiful and they love the the circuses Are Strong really after world War ii a moved to met and married a Ballet master she joined him for a time in his act and later returned to he toured for a while with Barnum Bailey and the Pollock did a movie with Esther Road Tours with Gabby Hayes and Sally performed at fairs with the Marx i didst like the Marx Brothers too he they were strange i remember we were supposed to play at a fair or something and one the one that played the got he got completely they find him his agent had a heart attack and died Over he he take it by this a had Given up the wire and was doing tucking his legs Over his shoulders and walking on his among other i had this idea when i was Young to do an act based on the Frog King in the fairy when i retired from the wire i put it it was a big with dancers and a me As the Frog doing i used to do 15 tricks in 15 my act now is nothing like in the old i Only do maybe five tricks one of them is still walking around on his legs dangling Over his not bad for a Man who is i really have to warm up i do about 10 minutes of put on the Frog and do another 10 minutes or so so in 67 you have to retire a had retired hed returned to Germany to see the 1972 olympics and never got around to leaving he was kicking around the House when his wife showed him a Magazine piece about Bernhard Paul and what was to become circus i went and visited him he had he was living in an old chocolate he had two wagons and no Money and he said he was going to Start a i thought he was but i saw something his what he had in his i dont crazy or i Felt continued on Page 16 August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15
