"Peter Taylor in a white uniform, black eyes flashing and armed only with a long whip, would stop, a brief moment, outside the arena to make a most informal little bow. Then he would turn abruptly to the steel barred door. |
Thursday, September 03, 2009
John Robinson 1923 #8
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From Jones Bros. and Wilson to Gollmar Bros. and then Johgn Robinson where young Beatty as a Cage Boy took over the act when Pete Taylor was unable bto perform due to a nervous breakdown . His was the style Beatty wood use to his final days. Naturally he gave more credit to Guilfoyle, but the style came from Taylor.
From Jones Bros. and Wilson to Gollmar Bros. and then Johgn Robinson where young Beatty as a Cage Boy took over the act when Pete Taylor was unable bto perform due to a nervous breakdown . His was the style Beatty wood use to his final days. Naturally he gave more credit to Guilfoyle, but the style came from Taylor.
Taylor's nervous breakdown made the best story, but another version holds he had nerve damage in his cervical spine that one day in the safety cage, immediately prior to the act, disabled him from working. The cage was up, the cats were in, and the audience had paid their money. How do you tear down a Big Cage without a stream of demanded refunds? Odom fumed until he could no longer hold out, and finally gave young Clyde Beatty the green light, in 1925, and he took it from there. I agree with the Colonel--he emulated the Taylor style, and went to the top, where he stayed for 40 seasons.
Diddn't a similar thing happen with an American lion trainer and Clubbs lions in the eighty's on Cirque Knie. I have a poster Knie had made to that affect.
Well, Anonymous, if we knew you are, and what you're referring to, we might be able to give you an answer.
What is this Anonymous thing, anyhow? The others of us, as you so often see, are not ashamed of our names.
Thanks Roger
Even if someone can't or won't
go through the signup process
they can still put their name
at the end of the entry
NO RESPECT FOR ANONYMOUSES
(or is it anonymice)
Mr. Smith I was mentioning that the same thing happened to Lary Dean when he was with our show we pritnted posters so the audience would no whythere was no cage act and ask for a return
L. Knie
That's right, Rog!
You tell 'em, Chic!
Thanks for coming clean, L.Knie!
:-)
C-I-N-D-Y P-O-T-T-E-R
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