When I first took the Jungleland Fighting Lions out, this was our booking. Uncle Sid's James Bros., under this Big Top. It was my first time to work cats in an act under canvas. My assistant was the capable and devoted Elmer Morgan "Chuck" Hayes, by then a veteran of Sells & Gray, King Bros., and the Beatty show. Chuck was a circus man on the order of Turtle Benson--he served his heart out on shows, and received comparatively little recognition. A newspaper photographer took rolls of shots of my act, showed me the contact sheets, then vanished forever. No amount of tracing has turned up a single photo.
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When I first took the Jungleland Fighting Lions out, this was our booking. Uncle Sid's James Bros., under this Big Top. It was my first time to work cats in an act under canvas. My assistant was the capable and devoted Elmer Morgan "Chuck" Hayes, by then a veteran of Sells & Gray, King Bros., and the Beatty show. Chuck was a circus man on the order of Turtle Benson--he served his heart out on shows, and received comparatively little recognition. A newspaper photographer took rolls of shots of my act, showed me the contact sheets, then vanished forever. No amount of tracing has turned up a single photo.
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