Ghost Cat of Guatemala

The Clyde Beatty Show! The 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. Grills, excitements, 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, or in far away places of the world where this master of the big cats' journey, his journey hunting down his beasts and their native jungle. All of this is part of a Clyde Beatty story. Here is an adventure entitled Ghost Cat of Guatemala.

A few years ago while the circus was wintering in Florida, my wife Harriet and I had an opportunity to combine business with pleasure. The business part was putting 34 lions and tigers through their faces inside the steel arena twice a day for a week. And the pleasure was in visiting Havana, Cuba, where the theater we were playing was located.

I had just finished the final performance of our engagement, and as I ran off stage I could see Harriet and Norman Carroll, our business manager, standing in the wings smiling. Listen to them flying. They loved every second of it.

You better go take another bar, flying. Okay. Don't go away now. Oh boy, I bet we could pack this house every night for six weeks if Clyde wanted to stay. Ah, Norman, remember? A week of work and a week of pleasure.

Yeah, sure. I was only thinking. Let's get to my dressing room. Oh Hank, make sure those cages are all checked before you leave tonight. Well say I have a race to have the cats taken back to the ship at noon tomorrow, Clyde.