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Show reSte. November 1936. 'f fKSft-8H- , PARADR OF YOUTH 7, 1936. PM. 3 Featured As Worlds Best Bareback Rider ool- - ant u-r- w Do or Try Performer Comes Just Watch Her Smoke in Air Career . Of Circus Family - n 8m u I. Fnwk l Edith' (I rs go 1 tally got to walk. if 1 did rd me to. 13 bare-bac- rs. J. K s, g. Mr. ; tan way. to liar. he y or girl vas very cat But llar, an s t '. f cpect Breeka r Senna rtfthe belegUl. greateet Ilia ite a ears rab reaaae a ways has and has thing t te me." Idle waatt giraffe n . Had would . Wit1, vc . ON (that had awtel . 4 le . . be d and a le, frl- anlsh- - he'd day hemp d if It t" . . . i long. Laura, t beast tree's amble . end er hts e with I same l yea a id JOLE- De-i- k hi sn f addle y y. ' had i a lb. 3t iv ?w .JUi I Trme y PS Weight Ten e Oefemtinetien. I What Donn Tracy lacks in size she more than makes up in determination to fly. Donna, who lives at 60D Pearl street. Denver, Colo.. the smallest claims the title of in the West " girl airplane pilot to be brace Her 5 pounds have with cushions so she can reach the controls. Going te If Td fly even if they hid to build f a high chair behind the controls ' me" she tells Parade. And I'm license going to got my transport If I have to go to Washington and lobby for it. Lad year, at 1. she studied and has engineering and navigationm overalls become as much at home as most girls arc in aprons. "I'm not going to be what men. Bay women arc ignorant of machinery, she continue. Doesn't See 8hy. to have a flving I'm going career ju.l wall h my smoke' Maybe some lay 111 pd t a ti an. iccantc don t see why not if I transport work hard rn nigh F erC. ISH. f hr PrtiUrN" Ftipvfr R vtort COi1 pr. irh year 13-d- ay Knans Best e( AU. , i landed at Havre, France where I decided to Join a tourisfg party. I visited Franco, Belgium, Holland, Germany, SwlUerlond bnd Italy. I took about eight daaea camera picture and almost Mied a flve-ye-ar diary. I enjoyed Rom most of all i "Among my souvenirs ara a Rail brown shirt from Germany. I an Italian Fascist soldier's hat,' a Dutch lace cap, a brick from a Roman wall, Swiss Jewelry and a cigaretle case for my father which was made in the very Floranlina' shop where Cellini, the famous metal artist, worked. "Ir found Italian girls the moo beautiful, with th Germans next. "We year I rode hippopotamus around the track. He never one tried to wiggle or throw me off. Most circus performATetogJacfe ers come of circus parents TTus la true because circus folk rarely marry outside the profession . . Often "circus children" of I er I year are Bent into the ring as jiaeyj" clowns to become accustomed to crowds A circus -(King iter Is taught the rudiments of all acts and later chooses one as his Resin helps the specialty . . youngster to keep his footing when learning to be an equestrian . . . A horse always gallops around the ring probably because it has been trained to be mounted from the left. By circling the animal thus always presents its left side to the the center in of the ring. equestrian ... , counter-clockwis- . e, e, Adopt woman Katherine Netetfarlt Siin-otaught Canad.an World War airmen to fly She was a partner im the flying school of her bi other the late pilot and builder, Fddie At IV I.inatne Bow Stinson man. Burbank Calif, has been solohad her ing for thiee years She first ride when 3. soloed when li . . . Amelia Earhait Putnam had to endure hoots of der'sion m an automobile mechanics' school. Later the became the only person to solo At 19, Cecil Ham both, oceans . ilton. of Pasadena. Calif, lias been a transport flying two yeais. holds Iircnac, won fourth prise in the 1931 Ruth Chatterton Air Derby, and teaches movie stars to fly A . Sign oil Dotted Line For Long Film Career Hollywood likes Freddie Bartholomew, even as you and I. The English star has just been signed to a new contract that will until keep him at work in pictures he's old enough to go to college. 1 Water Baby Ittvr. H1A , counter-clockwis- 1 sar-- k eel A , 1 With my. parents I have traveled in England, France and Belgium, aa well as gie United Stales. At the age of months I was with s show.' Mother used to put me to sleep in her trunk while she went Into the ring. Liked Swinging an Ropes. The first year my father took me in hia irmi and, rode about the ring. I learned to ride a pony almost aa toon as I could walk. But I was S or 7 before Daddy would let me try to stand on a horse's back. Then J used safety ropes to keep from getting hurt when I fell, t fell a lot, too, because the safety ropea swing you around in the air and 1 liked that Later Daddy started teaching me stunts. Before I was I I could stand alone on a boras and do a fhw tricks. This is my first year doing somersaults and whirling about on ftud j.fore the .fternoon my jo- - These are considered the f most difficult tricks. After that 1 practice riding, I began school in Hollywood. Calif, when I was 7 Since, I have tumbling or gymnastics until the attended achitol in London. I am evening performance, now a freshman Much of my success Is due to high school student of the Professional Chtl-- I my pure white horse, Ruth, a deer dren's School. New York City. old thing. She's big and fat, but While on the road my work is done as light aa a kitten on her feet. And she B follow me around Ilka hy correspondence a dog -- if I feed her Sugar. Mother A Circes Day. says she could ranter on a basket Here la how I arrange my day of eggs and never break them the with I love her In fact, I love all circus while traveling After breakfast I get my books out animals end they seem to knu v of my trunk, which I use es a that I love them, for they never desk, and study t.ll lunch time try to hurt me as ybu can see by After lunch 1 have another hour the elephant picture (above). (Qne ks Marina wo winner la a cun leaf sponsored by the Propeller Club of America. Bill, who read of the Contort id a magazine, thought ao little of big eaaay he threw hi only carbon eopy In the wait bosket. But Anally a letter arrived telling m 1 had svosj the trip, ho write from 1383 Her bert avenue, Memphis, Terns. ; "J wo ao excited 1 walked on hi unt4 1 left." . Then followed a trip to New YoHl where bo "saw the town" and caught hl boat, the Independence Hall, "I' enjoyed every moment of the ocean voyage." he continues, "Everyone was friendly and you couldn't help getting the romance of the sea. great-grandfath- er her pup lusual to Charlie i." as he to one of j f An essay Bill Ilargrsve, 18, wrote, and than forgot, won him a- seven-weetour at j Europe. Thi essay on the Merchant I was born in New York City of a circus Clarke family. Both my and roy mothers father owned circuses in London. k My parents, of course, are riders. at 1 - y - as been couldn't fed with ihe's full kinds of Taken Along for Date With German Girl. By Ernestine Clarke. hen one ittle ball tiny dog ter than lownl I Just like Ir- - Interpreter Editor's Nate: Of the fourth generation of cirrus fsgfilp, Ernestine Clark, 14. ia hailed at the prfatest somersaulting bareback rider of alt time. Her act is feature of Cole Bros. Circus. Writing from Star Route, Ciena Falla, If V., she tells Parade of fhs every day life of a jtnr of the big top and hoy the learned her dangerous profession. her a f Ernestine Clarke, 14, Does Somersault and Toe Whirls on Horae. She 8 was a r Tours Europe As Winner o Essay Contest J M Family But Soon Return to Sea. A "friend from the sea" Joined the family of Thomas W Goad, of Portland. Me. stayed two weeks and then returned to sea. It was a baby aeal, found by Mr Goad on the beach at Prout'a Neck, where the family summers. Apparently it hod just been born. "I put the little waif back in the surf. writes Mr. 'Gosd from 94 Congress street. Portland, "but it insisted on following me across the beacht Finally I took It home. We fed it from a baby'a bottle on cod liver oil mixed with cow 'a milk." The aeel thrived, and after a week had become much larger. "He woe a very playful and affectionate pet." took him into aye Mr. GpiL the water every day for a awlm He always followed me out" After two weeks Mr. Goad decided it was time for the tea to reclaim its own "One night we took him over to the rocks and get him afloat There were a number of seala about and he Joined them at once." Footballer Kirk Off, Too. If anybody ask you whether cats 1". 'Ruth' natd Cm eetitte Clmrhe .ie-y-.r- . Sugar Cemente Their Frierratahim. can possibly have nine' lives, be smart. Say; Sure,1 Thafs nothing.1 Then Front croak every nlphl'" dock. Silt WeUteJt aa Then Set Seff. j 1 had a date with a German I gUt and1 had to take an interpreter a king "In Florence I Joined an ltdiiad soldier. Tlie only things we ooul make each other understand Wer Vive Mussolini' and 'Vive Room veil We walked upand down thf streets toughing amt rtuwting thty ' r1 VUi-"When I couldn't find a restsjdraix where English jvas spoken. I mrcl 1 la icf the amount t wanted to apen on the table. The welter protnptH brought me that much food, J hat never atudied a modern language but my knowledge of Latin; perbi helped me a lot j "Finally I returned to Havre. ) really regretted seeing Europe fad In (he distance. 1 Intend to ; work my way serosa next summer. 8a ended a trip whose memorie g shall enjoy the reel of my life." y HmrgreeeHe Air matd ,yr&a a; V ' j - 0 4- . - V 'ir |
