 I don't think younger people realize how famous Beatty was. I honestly don't think there was a person in North America (and probably many other places around the world) who did not know of him. My dad went to see Hagenbeck-Wallace in 1932 specifically to see Beatty perform, and eleven years later when my mother and her sister rounded up the kids in the family and took us to see the Beatty-Wallace show it was because they wanted us to see this legendary man in person.  |
Friday, September 23, 2011
From Dave Price #1
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Even Ringling thought Clyde Beatty was top of his field as they used him at Madison square garden and the Boston garden a few years.
As a young person in the 1950's and early 1960's I can still remember to this day the thrill it was to see Mr. Beatty in person in that cage of fury. On the edge of my reserved seat saying Mom will he get out of that cage alive.
He is gone but not forgotten.
Harry in Texas
Clyde Beatty would be as famous in his day as the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin from Australia, was in ours, until his untimely death. Given today's international media and web boosting Irwin, Beatty may well have been more famous.
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