Thursday, May 23, 2013

2009 Calendar #85


Clyde Beatty, "Greatest Wild Animal Trainer of All Time."
Cole Bros. Circus 1936.

Posted by Buckles at 5/23/2013 05:39:00 AM

2 comments:

Roger Smith said...

This poster was given to me by Dick McGraw in 1969, and hung above my newborn son's crib, in Thousand Oaks. Mine has a date tail reminding us again that the show is "With Clyde Beatty"--in Parkersburg, Afternoon and Night, May 16--and that this is a 'Gigantic Railroad Circus". Pencilled front and back is "1935".

24 May, 2013 19:28
Roger Smith said...

Dave Price reminded me that this poster was used throughout Beatty's association with the Cole show of Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell - 1935 to mid-1938. In that annus horribilis of '38, Cole closed early, and Clyde and Harriett Beatty moved over to the sister show, Robbins Bros., to finish the damaged season.

25 May, 2013 19:06

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