thecircusblog | July 15, 2009
Maybe Wade Burck, or Bill Strong can help me out with this trainer name. Update 7/16/o9, I compared the arena seats with some photos I have of Josip Marcan’s arena no match. Could this be Robert Bouty ? See Bill Strongs comment below. I think we have the name, check out Rob’s Comment. Thank you Bill and Rob […]
thecircusblog | June 18, 2009
George Keller was known to have very flashy props and wardrobe. It was a class act from start to finish.
thecircusblog | June 18, 2009
I got these photos from my father’s collection. He knew Keller very well. My dad was very fond of his act….he said he was a great showman.
thecircusblog | May 18, 2009
Louis Roth in his older years but his love of animals remain. This photo tells the story: In the end the Lion and the Lamb.
thecircusblog | May 18, 2009
I believe this photo was taken at the Selig or the Lincoln Park Zoo. What a beautiful pride of male lions! Louis is seated among them showing total command.
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
This photo is from the 1953 motion picture “Perils of the Jungle” starring Clyde Beatty. The studio changed his regular circus wardrobe for some unknown reason. All in all the movie was not bad, it was considered a B+ movie. Clyde Beatty is the only circus performer that I know of to ever star in a motion picture. The studios […]
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
Nero was Clyde’s favorite working lion. Nero was a fighting cat and a very good one at that. Clyde put on a exciting whip and chair routine, It was all show. As you can see here, he was very content with his master. However there was one incident where Nero did nail Clyde in the […]
thecircusblog | April 20, 2009
Here Beatty is shown taking “pride” in his “pride” of tiger cubs. This photo was take in the mid 1930’s.
thecircusblog | March 25, 2009
I met Tarzan only once, on a cold and rainy day in Los Angeles. I was driving down the freeway and noticed this European style tent going up. It caught my eye and I stopped and asked this man whose circus did this belong to….and he looked over, covered with mud and answered “Mine…..Zorbini”. I […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2009
The last time I saw Roger was in the early 1960’s. I went to Thousand Oaks to pay visit with Big John Strong who lived not to far from the Jungleland compound. I happened to run into Roger who was at that time just developing his cat act and by all reports he was an up and comer. […]
