Buckles,
I assume after the "screw" and tearing down of the arena, that's why they started putting the elephant on her knees. Quick and fast will never be realistically successful in the training of any animal.
Henry Edgar,
Did you not read my response to you on CircusNOspin. We did put the tiger and lion on the elephant together, but there was not enough room for me to ride with them. It mean's nothing, but did Harriett ride with them? From an audience appreciation point of view, standing up free riding with one animal, was better received then a lion and tiger riding alone together. Truth be known, that type of an act is not that popular or well received. Mine was offered free to the producers as I had the tigers and elephants there. Often it was left out of the morning show, to make it shorter, or if they were short of prop men. Henry, we have to give the public what they want.
Wade Burck
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Good turnout at the Club. Cinco de Mayo night, good Mexican food and music.
Afterward in the bar the big topic of conversation was the Carson & Barnes Circus. The highlight of the evening was the antics Cincy and Roy's twins, what a pair of beauties.
On the other hand, right at the crucial point of one of my stories, Dale and Mrs. Riker passed our booth and I overheard him say "I forgot to bring my boots!"
my understanding is that this clyde beatty-trained act (with some help on getting anna may to work with the cats) is that this is the only act that we know of that featured both a lion and a tiger riding an elephant at the same time. there have been several tiger riding elephants and a few lion riding elephants, but has anyone else put both animals on an elephant at the same time?
Jimmy Reynolds was with Cole when the incident with the elephant took place. He said none of the elephant hands were cat men and they had to lead the elephant without backing up, so they didn't know what the cats were doing and it was disconcerting. Allen had to do cause he was the captain. Little hairy.