Jinx of the Big Top

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, quills, 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, or in far away places of the world, where this master of the big cats is journey. hunting down his beasts in their native jungle.

All of this is part of a Clyde Vadie story. This is an experience entitled, Jinx of the Big Top. People frequently ask me if I have any pet superstitions, and I can honestly answer that I have none.

But circus life and circus performers have taught me that superstition is something which can't always be laughed of. Strange things sometimes happen, which would make even the most skeptical wonder. For instance, there was the summer a few years ago when we'd been playing several towns in Iowa.

Things have been going from bad to worse with a series of tough breaks in the form of accidents and bad weather. Then, after an evening performance during which our star trapeze performer was injured in a fall, things came to a hit.

I was in my dressing room talking to my wife Harry. Why, don't let it upset you, so you've just been acting. Sure, I know. And it's the seventh accident we've had in the past two weeks.

But why? Nobody's to blame for anything. You even had one yourself last week, remember? Sure I remember. I got off luckier than any of the others, just a few scratches. Cratch as you called them, with fifteen stitches in your leg?