Saturday, August 01, 2015

Clyde Beatty #2


In his book Facing the Big Cats, Beatty described what happened: Under the big top my arena is a circular affair, forty feet in diameter. For the purposes of the Ed Sullivan show this had to be changed to a long narrow enclosure in which the pedestals were stationed in a manner slightly unfamiliar to the animals.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

I remember Clyde telling our family about the Sullivan show. He also rammed the butt of the whip into or near his eye backing up. He thought he had more room to maneuver than he did.

Bob Good