In Madrid, European neutral capital during the big war in 1914, The Moreno brothers already played in theatres and circus. It was in there when an Austrian Baronesses, Flora Spleind, wanted to conquest Wences, She was just finished her relationship with the very famous Frégoli. Wences had to make up three or four different voices to run away from the Austrian lady. In 1918 he was turned up in the Novelty Theatre in San Sebastian with Argentinita’s company (group). He made his acting debut in 1924 in the Prince’s circus next to Pompoff and Thedy, and there, he worked with his brother Felipe between 1926 and 1927 until he could raised 9000 pesetas that it would let him cross over to the other side of the Atlantic.

 

In 1934 Wences arrived to Buenos Aires. A year after he disembarked for the first time in New York to act in a club situated in the popular district of Greenwich Village. During all those years he exchanged tours all through Paraguay, Uruguay, Perú, Bolivia, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, México y La Habana. It was there where he had the agreement to act in the Newyorkian Cabaret “el chico”. In 1937 he came back to Europe to act in London in from of King Jorge and Queen María, they were the grandparents to the actual Queen of England. After that he arrived, with his bother Felipe,

to the Cairo to act in front of the Egypt king Faruk.

 

 

In 1943, after he got divorce from his first wife, he married with an English woman with Russian’s parents and a Jewish background, Nathaly “Taly” Coover. She was a great dancer and she could talk nine languages, and she started, from the very beginning, controlling the ventriloquist’s career. Wences lived the second war being as a mayor in armed forces of the United States.

With his acts he fully bucked the enormous carps that the American Army had provided to cheered up the combatants in the battlefront. In Hollywood, Mr Wences took part in some movies, like “History is made at night”, directed by Frank Borzage, the one brought a lawsuit with the producer because of they made disappeared his name from the screen and credits .

He acted also in a Walter Lang production in 1947 called “Mother wore thights”, titled in Spain as “always in your arms” with Betty Grable in the main character.