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...Tamer In Buffalo, N. Y., on his day off Lion Tamer John Taylor, 66, was picked up by Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife...
Bengal Tiger (Warner) injects into circus formula No. 1-about the lion tamer (Barton MacLane), the lion tamer's wife (June Travis) and the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (Warren Hull)-one new and valuable factor. Satan, meanest tiger in captivity, chews off the lion tamer's right leg at the picture's start, obligingly devours what remains of him at the finish. Between times he prowls down a village street, goes on a rampage in a butcher shop, makes kindling out of innumerable kitchen chairs, kills a substitute keeper, growling the while...
...this time for Charley Devens; the former Harvard and Yankee hurler and perennial tamer of incipient College sluggers met a rude setback in the bats of Al Colwell and Tom Bilodeasu here yesterday, as the Varsity defeated an Alumni baseball team...
Moments: A lion mangling a native lute player; a lion tamer going mad with fear when lions, loose and hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised...
...business college he showed promise of making an excellent clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...