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...Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...
...Emilio had decided that it was time to leave the circus and settle down. Colombia was the place he had picked. It was at Girardot on the Magdalena River that "Nero," the troupe's mangy, "dangerous" lion had turned out to be a lioness and given birth to three cubs. And it was at Medellin that Emilio's niece had died of typhoid; the show had gone on, even on her funeral day. With the money Emilio's wife had put away, they would buy a house in Bogotá and become solid citizens...
After a last performance in Cuba, Emilio put the circus aboard the ancient, 145-foot Honduran ship Euzkera, then took a plane to Cartagena to see to Colombian bookings and the house in Bogotá. The Euzkera had only two cabins. But the 46 members of the troupe managed somehow, even with all their animals and gear...
Many Names. Vidali was born near Trieste, about 50 years ago. After Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
Rush Season, in Mexico City, Factory Manager Emilio Checa addressed a quarter-page newspaper ad to Teléfonos de Mexico: "Forty days ago we reported our telephone out of order. Won't you please have something done...