Show Dale arpe arle i ie Minute 5 Biographies Author of How to Win Friends and Influence people CLYDE BEATTY Stick tick His Head in a Lions Lion's Mouth Mouth Not Without a Mask Gas Clyde Beatty has one of or the most Jobs In tho the world lIe He looks into the jaws of or death not once once but twice a da day The life Insurance Insurance insurance In in- In- In companies realize that he may be ripped to pieces at any time by savage claws so they r refuse tuse to gamble on his life lite He Is the only performer in the circus who cant can't get an insurance policy He told me lne he lie had sometimes thought of quitting the lion and tiger tigel business but he says sas that 1 If I he had to punch a time-clock time in a I factor Y or ni- ni some mn simil aim Mot Mot- e r job J h 1 a t nT won ld l i 4 n kill him And if hes he's got to die hed he'd r rather ther be gored to death than bored to death Clyde CIde Beatty has spent half hal hIS hid thrilling and exciting lifetime lifetime fit fifteen teen years of it under it-under under the big top I As a kid back In Chillicothe Ohio he was crazy about the circus One exciting day the Barnum and Bailey circus came to town D A laundryman laundryman laun- laun dryman stuck up a poster in his window A glamorous In yellow ellow and purple and t 1 led ed showing a heroic lion trainer bravely cracking cracking crack crack- ing ilg his whip over oyer a cageful of ot roar- roar PAS The Life Insurance Companies say Not on YOUR L Life e eing ing snarling cats from Africa Beatty Beatty Beatty Beat Beat- ty rushed inside and begged the owner of the laundry to give him the poster after the circus left town The laundryman said Yes Ill I'll give it to you ou If you'll run errands forme for forme forme me for a week He agreed to this This twelve old kid already had some roaring snapping snarling snarlIng snarling snarl- snarl Ing friends of ot his own Or at least he made believe they were WE-reo He had five dogs which he had trained to sit up and beg roll oV over r and walk around on their hind hina legs And every so often he lie would stick up his circus poster and put on a wild animal imal act for the kids in the neighborhood Then one summer when the big caravan chugged out of town Clyde Beatty was aboard his bis heart h art palpitating palpitating 1 tating with excitement For three days his tits desperate parents searched I 1 frantically His mother spent night nights nights' e of weeping before a letter came say 1 saying saying say say- I I ing jag he had a job of cleaning out the I cages with the circus He was only fifteen and he was vas getting five dollars dol lars and a chance to live in Paradise I In the ten years time this y youngster young young- young young-J ster from Chillicothe Ohio had out out- I stripped every tamer lion-tamer In history He de pit on an act so daring so tool tool- heardy that even eyen circus men said it couldn't be done And then when they iney saw him actually do do it they said laid he was a lunatic and that his ute afe wasn't worth a plugged nickel tie ne put forty snarling spitting llO is u ana aua a tigers Into the same cage clack cracked d his whip and und made them do their stuff stun Fort Forty lions and tigers tiger y with hate and ana snarling wit with h rage NO vo 0 wonder tHe act created a sensation even among circus people wr lUr lions hons and anu tigers are mortal ene ens mies they sites on Sight And moro more nan nail on Oil one occasion neatly Beatty found himself In a cage of ot fighting roarIng roaring roar roar- ing hig murderous jungle cats Yet let et strangely Clyde Beatly Beatty Beat Beat- ly ty says that lions hobs and ana tigers al' al are not the cue most dangerous animals to con con- Hes He's tried them all lions all lions and bears hyenas hyena and 1 And he found that the she most dangerous beast of ot all 1 is the polar bear And he s says ys tl tl-a tl he hie he trick rick of ot all Is to mane make a auger tiger uger ride on an elephants elephant's back In Intact tact met he he lie himself was nearly killed oy ty aa an elephant one day just bee ute bec-ute ne neHe lie He had born botn to the tigers gel S 'S cage and the caught r the i 11 is s hat hated ll sc scent nt or of the tiger YouVe You'Ve heard ha en ha n you ou ihU animal trainers control Ui their h animals by looking them i m iu the time yo u Clyde Ul-de Beatty told m me that that Is Isu isa u u. lot of lh average lion wouldn t give two non n J even if Mae West Vest looked him in the eye He says the only reason J ho he w wat watches hes his animals is to find out nut what they're up aA to and what they're going to do next Beatty says no trainer has ever actually stuck his head in a lions lion's mouth It just looks that way Ho He says Ive known some seine pretty reckless reck reck- reckless less animal trainers traine-rs but Ive I've never neve- heard of oC one crazy enough to stick his head into the mouth of a lion Hon lions have hae halitosis so BO bad that even their best friends would nave llave to wear Theres There's another popular idea idea idea- I that tra trainers lion ners use red-hot red pokers I Ito I to control enraged animals But Beatty says that i if you want to commit commit com coni- mit suicide just enter tho the cage of ofa a lion or tiger that has been burned with a red-hot red poker His harmless weapons are a kitchen chair a whip and a revolver filed with blank cartridges Clyde Beatty says sars hes he's tired working with tame animals ani animals ani animals mals born in captivity and MId he prefers prefers prefers pre pre- fers wil wild ones an any time Tame animals animals animals ani ani- mals are just like liko spoiled children en they've been pampered and petted until they refuse to do anything The question n he has been asked most often otten is this can call a lion Ion lick a tiger or wi will l th the tiger lck the lion Frankly he lie doesn't know Hes He's been I in the big cage dozens of times with lions and tigers fighting all around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him but the lions always gang up and tigers fight alone When one lion starts fighting all th the the- lions in sight come to his aid especially aid especially she Uie lIe lions are aie brothers Lions are arc J tike like boyd bOy boys they they can cant can't t see ace a ac without mixing up tip In it but jut a UlJas ti U I has no race he consciousness con consciousness he sit up on his pedestal and yawn Wn while some other tiger Is r f fing lUg ing killed j I One of ot the most amusing stu stul Clyde Beatty does in the lug Big Ca Cais C IS to make a bear beal turn a compi somersault the somersault the only trick of I I kind In the world orld lie Ile discovers discovered by accident Beatty was in the ct Cf c one day when the bear came tear at Lt him teath bared claws tense a J mur murder In his eye I This Ibis his bear v vout pout v p vout out to kill and anti his bis onslaught was was sudden so fierce that B Batty atty did first thing that Hashed flashed to his m ml mil He hauled haule 1 off of and smash smashed d the b bon bon on the nose and as nothing els else so painful to a bear as a poke on onI nose and aHl as list laun the bear wc wont went at over in a heap turned a somersault Th what gave Beatty Deatly tho the idea And Andl day all he lie has to do to make same turn beat a complete Hip Hip- n is to tap him gently on the then n with his whip I I Clyde Clde Beatty knows his wild mals orals of or the jungle and plain Plain Plain-ku plain I them bEtter better than any other man ing Yet he says his favorite ant ani anlIs Is the dog d I |