Sunday, October 11, 2015

Clyde Beatty #3


Posted by Buckles at 10/11/2015 05:39:00 AM

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Harriett Beatty, born Harriett Iwicki, in Chicago, March 3, 1909. She had been a dancer in vaudeville, during which time she gave birth to Albina Davilia, also born in Chicago, on Christmas Eve, 1931. (Note her birth name is Davilia. Despite any latter-day claim, Clyde Beatty was not Albina's father, and he never formally adopted her.) Harriett married Clyde in Bristol, Virginia, on September 16, 1933. In 1936, on Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, she debuted in the steel arena with Primba tigress and Simba lion riding the original Anna May, an act co-developed by her husband and elephant boss Eddie Allen. Others subsequently leading Anna May for this act were Col. William Woodcock and Arky Scott. Beatty dedicated his 2nd book, JUNGLE PERFORMERS (1941), to her. Harriett died after a long illness involving heart disease, on October 25, 1950, in their private 61 Car, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was only 41. Even after her death, the CLYDE BEATTY RADIO SHOW kept her name in the scripts. Some references spell her name with one "t", but she is interred as Harriett Beatty, with a rosary on her marker, in Lauderdale Memorial Park, in Florida. She is seen here at World Jungle Compound. This cropped photo includes Frank Phillips, John C. "Chubby" Guilfoyle, Billy Richards, her husband, and the child actress Jane Withers.

11 October, 2015 19:46

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