Monday, June 10, 2013

Clyde Beatty #4


The Books:

1. THE BIG CAGE, New York, Century, 1933. With Edward Anthony
2. JUNGLE PERFORMERS, New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1941. With Earl Wilson.
3. FACING THE BIG CATS, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1965. With Edward Anthony.
4. DAVEY'S ADVENTURES WITH THE CLYDE BEATTY CIRCUS, New York, Abelard-Schumann, 1965. By
Jane Beatty with Ann Pinchot.


The Zoos:

1. The Clyde Beatty Jungle Zoo, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1939-1945.
2. Clyde Beatty's Jungleland, North Miami, Florida, 1960-1961.

The Big Acts:

He is the only trainer in history to work two separate acts of more than 40 mixed lions and tigers of both sexes. There will never be another like him.

Clyde Raymond Beatty was born on Wednesday, June 10, 1903, in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio. He was the eldest of nine. He died at 2:30 p.m., on Monday, July 19, 1965, of cancer, at Community Memorial Hospital, Ventura, Ventura County, California. He was 62. He is interred in the Courts of Remembrance, Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles, California.
 

1 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Under Zoos:
The summer of 1942 Beatty furnished a display of animals for the Summit Beach Park in Akron, Ohio.