Wild Animal Fantasy #2

I'm afraid I can't fill in the time you mention between 1959 and 1961. I only saw the act one time with Polack Bros at Louisville very early in 1959. They had a very strong show with the George Hanneford Sr family riding act, also George Jr and Victoria and Kay Frances doing their perch act. Struppi was doing Tajana and getting a lot out of it. Mack and Peggy had the elephants of course, Fay Alexander had the flying act. They had a Zacchini Cannon I believe worked by Walter and Ruth Patterson. I believe Emanuel Baragon the Cloud Swing man was there. JC and Patricia Jamison were present and she worked that act. I thought the figure with the mouth was a golden leopard head- also I was thinking that only the black leopard came in through it. I was with several Hugo shows that year and then in 1960 I was with Beatty-Cole in Canada and in the east and don't know where JC had this act. The spring of 1961 I was in Hugo to join Jack Moore's Carson & Barnes and Kelly-Miller was going all out that year to promote their 25th anniversary show- lots of publicity and Joe McMahon had come over in some capacity. I had seen him the previous fall on Hagen Bros. Anyway I'm pretty sure that the KM publicity that year featured the Wild Animal Fantasy- I just now thought of that name- that's what JC must have named it. Anyway I went out with Carson Barnes and never saw the act on Kelly-Miller. Sorry I can be of no more help. I do know that D R Miller continued to use the posters on the act long after the act stopped working. I was there in 1965 and we still had them. I enjoy your comments and will look for more of them. Regards- Dave Price (aka Ole Whitey)