The Bear

The Clyde Beatty Show! World's greatest wild animal trainer Clyde Beatty with another exciting adventure from his brilliant career. The circus means fun for both young and old. Trills, excitement, snarling, jungle beasts. But under the big top where Clyde Beatty constantly risks death in the most dangerous act on earth, you see only part of the story.

Much of the real drama takes place behind the scenes of the circus, where 500 people live as one family, or in faraway places of the world, the world, where this master of the big cats has journeyed, hunting down his beasts in their native jungle. All of this is part of the Clyde Beatty story. This is the story of the

bear. Juro had quite a reputation for agility, for cleverness, and for unexpected turns of spirited meanness. Juro was a 600 pound, 7 foot tall brown bear, and he sounded like a possibility for the Train Bear Act I was planning to get together when I returned to the United States from a British Isles tour. So when I learned that Juro was being exhibited as

part of a small traveling circus, I watched my chance and one morning in the tiny mountain village of Klondvake in North Wales, my wife Harry and I caught the shore. Oh, Clyde. Clyde Lord. Yes, honey.

Isn't it different? So here in the open and around about crank my hand instead of the merry-go-round? The costume-ongers instead of pitchmen. And jelly-eels instead of cotton candy. Sure, but the circus is the circus the world over.

Oh yes, Clyde. Yes it is. There was no tent. Only a semicircle of plank seats on the grassy climb vacant cricket ground. But there were wide-eyed kids, part of a circus audience wherever you find it, watching the jugglers, the fire-eater, the tumblers.