Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tiger! Tiger! #11


5 comments:

Dennis said...

After years of being online and looking at circus related stories and photos, this is the only one of Mr. Baudy I have ever seen. Have I missed something?

Cindy Potter said...

Ned& I worked for Robert at Savage Kingdom in the winter of 1980-1981 (when the Beatty Show did their indoor "disaster" tour). The last time I saw Robert he had come to Beatty WQ to see Marcan's act. That was around the early-mid '80s. I have not heard from him since and nobody seems to know anything... I would like to know, too...
:-)
Cindy Potter

Dick Flint said...

Read the 557 pages of "Baudy, the Animal Man: The Biography of Robert Baudy" by Robert Baudy with Sandra Thompson (1996) that is heavy on his war experiences. Google his name and you'll discover why he seems to have disappeared from public view. I remember, however, a wonderful tiger act presented in the European tradition that played the Frank Wirth produced Shrine circus in Springfield, Mass., in the early 1960s when I was a teenage circus fan.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

John Herriott said...

Baudy came to this country with a sensational Greyhound and monkey act.Played all the "big dates" and later he would have an uncaged leopard act and the caged Sibrian tiger act. Then he became an international dealer in wild animals located at Center Hill, Fla.

Dennis said...

At center hill he told me to watch the big tree inside the huge chain link fence. He had thrown strips of meat into the branches.
Then he released about 6 leopards.
What a sight it was when they raced up the branches to get the treats.