Animals: A Bully & His Betters

The face-licking meekness of a lion named Duke who fell in love with two tigresses named Venus and Ruth almost spoiled Clyde Beatty's act but did not change the rule. Lions hate tigers. Tigers hate lions. On such feline passions rest the success and troubles of Clyde Beatty, 28, most famed U. S. animal trainer.

When Trainer Beatty goes back to Chillicothe, Ohio with the circus everybody in town turns out to see him perform except his mother. She thinks his act should be "cuter and less exciting." When Beatty ran away...

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