European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 the Littlest on Earth continued from Page 14 like i had to help the investors thought i was Paul crazy for wanting to Start a circus in a time when All circuses were going it was a crazy but the Way you do it is to make the investors i showed them the old wagons i had and showed them paintings and drawings of what i planned to and they got a Little crazy and gave me the business people have no you have to give them As Paul soon found starting a circus in 1976 really was crazy when you dont know How hard it is to do you can go ahead and do it without worrying about if i had known How difficult it would be to Start a circus i would have never tried i do this out of not out of a business not to make that what went wrong with the people started doing it to make i make Money to make More its that and the audience feels they feel the love and give us More Paul should his nightly transformation into Zippo the Clown puts him beneath the greasepaint and near the Roar of the the trick is not to just run the circus from a he you have to get out there and see and feel the you have to work with the other performers and feel what they a feel for its what prompted him to name his circus after the first Pope with a sense of Angelo Pope John and its led him to hire a French head waiter As a mix acrobats with wire mimes with chinese magicians and turn an emergency room nurse into a costume you cant just hire an he you have to create its not just the its the the the and the length of the other circuses like Long acts because they can have a Long show with fewer performers and save i dont do has a length that is right for it and that is what you see at this Vicky Buglione walks on her balances on her head and juggles her does triple somersaults on a no ones Ever thought of mixing a balancing act with a wire says its never been done people who have spent their whole lives in the circus never thought of Bernhard Paul that Why everyone is so eager to work for this Vicky and Joseph were eager enough to join Roncalli three Days after their this is our she Joseph is Vicky a year younger both Are strikingly Good almost he is decidedly part of the seventh generation of the family that owns Paris Winter the famed Cirque there Are Bou Liones in circuses All Over he More than 200 of my brother does a horse Rny sister juggles while balancing on a a Cousin is a lion Vicky is of an american a Spanish portuguese father both circus she was of All in we had a House with a barn because of working with the we we rent there very mostly at i was 5 and my sister was 8 when we started putting our act she when i was very i didst like the but that the Way it is with circus the parents have an idea and the children have to follow we worked every Day after school for an hour and a we did a balancing my sister was the Anchor because i was too Small to they performed together until the sister went off to get married to an owner of the american circus in for the first Vicky found herself without an so i had to build a new i worked four hours a Day for three months to build my perfect my i had to come up with something because i know at least 15 girls who do hand you have to be you have to be but you also have to have something her parents separated in 1976 and Vicky followed her father to parts to the Winter my fathers the ring master i met Joseph when i was 14 and i chased him from the very Joseph began As a at age graduated to walking the wire at i could work higher than i but then id have to Cut out the somersaults Are never 100 there Are times Rene coaxes a pair of big cats during his which includes tigers and american Vicky Buglione gave up for the european Francoise who plays the White Clown Cervantes in the Roncalli offers Candy to a Young photos by Emmett Lewis when you he and when you the wire snaps by you if you Are it scrapes All the skin off one its happened to me a few adds Vicky that one thing about performing in the same act with in right there and i if you watch my face while Hes youll the Bou Liones Are Happy to be working so Many circuses have gone out of business that the Large family acts Are having trouble working Vicky they have had to split up continued on Page 18