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Show I TIMID TIGER TRAINER FEARS AUTOS Mabel Stark Quakes at Ocean Trips and Cars A woman famed for exploits in training savage Jungle beasts came to Salt Lake City Thursday and confessed, of all things, to being afraid to drive automobilee or to be on water. She waa tiny Mabel Stark, who haa been making lions and tigers do her bidding for 23 years. Accompanying Ac-companying her was Margaret Thompson, now confining her activities ac-tivities to ths training of chimpanzees, chim-panzees, although ahe haa also handled "cats." En routs from the east to Hollywood, Holly-wood, they were met st ths Union Pacific depot Thursday morning by Captain R. D. McCollin, former keeper at the Salt Lake soo. They chatted with him until their train left a half hour later. Still recuperating from an attack at-tack by one of her animals that nearly cost her an arm. Miss Stark admitted she has been in two dozen accidents, five of them serious. In her snimal training career. T ahould know by now that wild animala are like some humsns, you just csn't trust - them," she admitted. ad-mitted. "I haven't lost my nerve, though, snd by next summer I sm going to hsve a circus act of lions and tigera working together. "Working In a cage doesn't bother both-er me, but I'm seared to death of automobiles, and I'd have gone on several big game hunta In Africa if I wasn't so afraid of water. I won't make the ocean trip." Miss Stark will complete a movie.! "The Circua Queen," in Hollywood. i -r-7? 1 I TIGERS, OKEH; BUT AUTOMOBILES, NO , . Mabel Stark... "I haven't lost my nerve' |