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This is Circus Williams and American Circus Togni. They toured together for a year.
Thomas
They actually toured together several times. The Williams family had strong business relationships with the Togni family in Italy and the Feijo and Castilla families in Spain. This is a picture of the combined Togni and Williams herds presented by Gunther Gebel-Williams in 1966. Williams toured several times in Italy alone and in cooperation with Togni as Circo di Berlino. The Tognis actually bought some of the Williams' rolling stock in 1968 after the Williams animal acts went to RBBB.
Thomas and Marco,
Thank you for the information. That is more mention of GGW then given by Jando of Circopedia in the Togni bio. GGW is almost mentioned apologetically as an "oh by the way" side note.
Wade
The photo is taken in Torino, Nov. 23 1963, at "Palazzo dello Sport" arena.
It is the world premiere of the "Circo Americano", then a Spanish label of producer Arturo Castilla, that night starting to be combined with Togni family and Williams Circus. It was supposed to be a winter version of the Castilla-Williams "Spanish National Circus". But to avoid an Italian tour of the European RBBB tour of that time, they used the Castilla-owned name of "Americano", first time ever out of Spain.
This opening night in Torino was posponed by a day because JFK's assassination.
The huge program, mostly on 3 rings, included Pablo Noel in the big cage.
In the picture, the combined elephants of Togni and Williams. The trainers pictured among the elephants are Gunther Gebel Williams, Erwin Bauer, Willy Togni and Ferdinando Togni.
This 26-pachiderms group was perhaps the largest elephant herd performance ever in a single ring.
Thomas: Togni and Williams combined often for mostly a decade. I wrote the detailed story of their relationship in two parts for Dutch magazine "De Piste", Nov. and Dec. 2007.
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