Mable Stark and Chubby Guilfoyle
Posted By thecircusblog on August 12, 2009
This is a photo taken from a newspaper. It was mainly about Mable Stark and The World Jungle Compound. The man in this photo is Chubby Guilfoyle, one of the finest big cat trainers ever known. He not only broke cats he taught the men who aspired to be cat trainers one being Pat Anthony. In the spring of 1950 Chubby Guilfoyle started teaching Pat at the Jungle Compound. Pat Anthony learned the trade under the G.I Bill of Rights. An eleven year old by the name of Manuel King from Brownsville, Texas caught the eye of Chubby and he trained both cats and the boy and successfully presented the act to the circus world. The intresting thing is that Chubby worked the act from outside of the arena.
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