Sunday, November 09, 2014

Jules Jacot #5


3 comments:

Jim Alexander said...

Most of these lions would be sold to Paul Kelly at the end of 1956 season. They were split into and act of males and and act of females. I saw the females perform in a shopping center show in the late 1950's. Even impressed a high school town kid.

Roger Smith said...

Jacot never used a track for his ball cats. They rolled free of gimmicks. This lioness was among his best, and I don't have her name. Jacot would walk about the floor and tap his stick for her next destination, and she rolled it to wherever he stood, proving to everyone, and to visiting trainers, what it is to train a ball roller beyond the usual few feet on a confining track.

Jim Alexander said...

I think that was Cubby, "the comedy cat". In St. Louis Jules had a lion that rolled a barrel forward and backward. Don't see everyday either.