Salta Violeta, Anacleto & Luchito

Photo and description courtesy of Marcelo Melison


From left to right, Carlos Scazziota "Salta Violeta" (1936 - 2000), Armando Quintana "Anacleto" (1914- ?) and my teacher, Luis Valenzuela "Luchito" (1918 - 1997), during a TV show in the early '80s.

"Salta Violeta" was a very popular clown, born in his father's circus (Miguel, he was a white face clown and his son's first partner) and he performed all his life in circus, TV, movies, revues. He was always working, either for children or adults. He would use a cloth dog as a prop, and "she" would "perform" tricks... a hilarious routine; I do something like that with a rubber chicken. His son keeps doing the character and, guess what? Yes, he uses Violeta, the dog!