From Richare Reynolds

!cid_X_MA1_1271029577@aol, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Richard Reynolds says - - I found this undated clipping in an old circus scrapbook. The caption identifies the man as Vincent Dorr, RBBB menagerie boss. The ocelot is named Mickey, but the comely show girl is not named. Perhaps someone can identify her. The route books list Dorr as menagerie supt. in both 1948 and 1949 but by 1950 it is C. R. Montgomery. The 1944 route book lists Dorr as assistant superintendent of Alfred Court's performing wild animal department. Did he ever work in the ring? The caption says that the ocelot was purchased by RBBB from the New York dealer Trefflich. RBBB property lists show that an ocelot was indeed purchased on December 24, 1947 for $114.02. It must be the animal pictured here. A RBBB animal inventory in November 1948 lists an ocelot. Must be this animal. Later lists say that an ocelot died between April 1, 1952 and March 31, 1953, most likely one and the same. The odd thing about this is that my RBBB menagerie inventories (that I took on the show in 1948 and 1949) do not list an ocelot, but I did note one in the 1950 menagerie. Perhaps I just missed it in 1948 Ocelots are beautiful cats. They range all the way from the Texas-Mexican border down into Argentina. However, as you can here, they are too small for effective presentation in a big cage act. Even so, the show claimed them for the Court acts. In my opinion that was just so much puffery. I have never seen any verification, not least that the official lists of Court animals with RBBB do not mention ocelots.