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Show j DOX CARLOS SAYS DOGS CARE MORE FOR SMALL ROYS j A circus dog's view of life was illustrated il-lustrated by Don Carlos, the famous S animal trainer, in the New Orleans Tulane high school recently. His trained animal show exhibited to over ov-er forty thousand children during the three week's visit to that city, giving daily 4 o'clock matinees, after af-ter school hours, and the novel street 1 parade, as well as night prformances jto the grownups attracted so much 'attention he was requested by school superintendents to lecture, and as the same program will be offered here at the opera house on November Novem-ber 10, the story is quite interesting It seems that a plain down town dog wrote a letter to "Beasley" the show's unruly "clown dog" in the Don Carlos menagerie, making inquiry in-quiry how he could join the circus, as he was tired loafing round picking pick-ing up old bones and wanted work. But "Beasley' 'was not unruly, only j taught to play rough in the show, so the circus dog replied: J Dear Slats Every dog plays his part well when he Is merely his natural nat-ural self, but many a dog is more or less spoiled by his environment and associations. I imagine I am spoiled some myself. So many visitors to Dan Carlos' circus want to shake paws with me, and I am so tired after af-ter acting sometimes, I swear. I will imake no new acquaintances. But that crazy notion fades for I love the . girls and boys too much. Of course it is exceedingly interesting to be the headline attraction in the circus cir-cus program, but this high pressure touring on the road is telling on me. Sometimes my kind and gentle boss acts as though he would like to sit down when he and I can be alone and I can look at him with sympathetic sympa-thetic eyes and he fixes his gaze on I me in a grateful sort of way, as much as to say, 'Well, dear old Beasley, Beas-ley, you and I are real friends and 'we will never cheat each other.' So, slats, I will speak to the circus owner own-er about it, and if you want a rough it on the road instead of playing around with the children, I am sure I can fix it, but let me tell you that If you begin this show life and you ! don't get fired, you will never leave it." |