The Young Beatty
Posted By thecircusblog on February 8, 2012
This photo of Clyde Beatty was taken in 1928. This too is another photo from the Bob Cline collection…….. Please read his comment.
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Again, per Richard Flint, this is a Pete Mardo photo that has been reproduced thus it doesn’t carry the Mardo stamp on the back of it.
Bob
Clyde Beatty joined out on August 16, 1921, on Howes Great London Circus & Van Amburgh’s Wild Animals, in Washington Court House, Ohio. He immediately fell under the tutelage of Louis Roth, there on loan from Al. G. Barnes. When Roth trained out a tiger act, he departed, and Beatty’s schooling was taken over by John C. “Chubby” Guilfoyle. By 1925, Beatty was on Hagenbeck-Wallace, where he took over the major lion and tiger mixed act from Pete Taylor. He remained on that title through 1934, so this photo is of his 3rd season there, on the cusp on international stardom, and very much in his prime.