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Mighty Midget. Billy Rose Exposition Spectacles, Inc., which leases the Marine Amphitheatre from New York State and the Fair Corp., has no one on its payroll quite so spectacular as Billy Rose. His pressagent, Dick Maney, has dubbed him The Mighty Midget, The Mad Mahout, etc! A competitor once remarked that Rose's definition of a "myriad" was 18 girls, but that is only one of his accomplishments since he was born Rosenberg in Manhattan, 40 years...
...mahout in the elephant stables of the Maharaja of Mysore, Sabu was picked by Director Robert Flaherty to play the lead in Elephant Boy two years ago. Now 15 and one of the half-dozen highest paid child stars in cinema, he goes to a boarding school at Beaconsfield, where he plays halfback on the second Rugby team, keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki...
...London Films) is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants, filmed by famed Director Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Arari). With his grizzled father, his father's elephant Kala Nag, an English white hunter and a group of seasoned Indian mahouts, picayune Toomai goes on a hunt for wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them...
...London Films) is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants, filmed by famed Director Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Arari). With his grizzled father, his father's elephant Kala Nag, an English white hunter and a group of seasoned Indian mahouts, picayune Toomai goes on a hunt for wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them...
When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote...