Dangerous Ambition

The Clyde Beatty Show! No greatest wild animal trainer Clyde Beatty with an exciting adventure from his brilliant career. The circus means thrills excitement snarling jungle beasts. The circus means fun for young folks and old, but under the big top you see only a part of the story.

The real drama comes behind the scenes where 500 people live as one family. For Clyde Beatty constantly risks death in the most dangerous act on earth. This master of the big cat has journey to Africa and India, hunting down his beast in their native jungle.

All of this is part of the Clyde Beatty story. Here is the dramatic story entitled Dangerous Ambition. Phoenix, Arizona was blistering under the mid-morning sun, as my wife Harriet and I sat in my dressing room on the circus lot.

Things were fairly calm and peaceful as we prepared for the second day of our two-day stand. But looking back, I realized it was only the proverbial calm before the storm. I've always prided myself on knowing the people who worked for me, knowing their virtues and capabilities, their faults and troubles.

But that gets to be a full-time job when almost 500 people are involved. At any rate, I had no idea of the trouble it was to develop that day. But while I sat in my dressing room, the groundwork for plenty of trouble was taking shape over in the Menagerie tent.

Alright, so what are you going to do, Hank? Just because you're a god-gower over cute little tight wire walker I'm not a white guy, I don't mean you gotta go around like a zombie, does it?

I just don't understand, corny. So because I'm a clown, I'm not supposed to know about such things? I've fallen for other gowns, but Doris, well... Yeah, I know, Doris is different. Yeah, that's what I mean.