Dated
on the birth certificate what is kept in the parish, Wenceslao,
Antonio Moreno’s and Josefa Centeno’s son, was born in Peñaranda
de Bracamonte, Salamanca County, at 2:00 in the morning on 20th
of April 1896. They were 19 brothers and sisters; just 7 of them
could survive. When he was a child, wences spended some periods
of time with his uncles; they made wagons for a living. He worked
as a confectioner, joining as a decorator with his father, wagon
lathe operator in the wagon factory, and he wanted to be a bullfighter.
His father was a painter and a sceneshifter, played the violin in
Liceo’s and Moderno’s theatres in Salamanca, he wrote poetry and
he published some articles in the local newspaper.
Wences
was 10 years old at that moment. One day when he and his brother
Felipe were playing on the street, they were amazed by the play
of the street people ventriloquists Ninchi, Roque, uncle Juliano
and Mr Sanz. Moreno’s brothers started playing around Salamanca
villages and taking, as an entrance payment, a chorizo or some eggs.
After that Wences worked all around Spain joining with other groups
of artists.
Birth
certificated book
IGLESIA
DE PEÑARANDA (1896)
WENCES-FELIPE-MARÍA-ANTONIO
Y PABLO MORENO (PEÑARANDA)
WENCESLAO
MORENO
IN
THE 30´S
1896
