ON "PERSONAL TERMS"
GIRL AND TIGERS
."Well-known circus requires animal trainer. Well-educated," pretty young lady used to sports and able to stand the strain of circus life. . . .".;
That advertisement appeared iri • an English newspaper, and a "welkeducated, pretty young lady" happened to see it.' ' "-' '•'. ...
Today, at only 19 years of age,- this girl is a brilliant tiger.itam.er.,, and is known, to the animal training world as ''Cilly." first job I was 16," she told'^an interviewer. "I was given, six young..tigers, and n\y first task was to. make friends with the animals;" ■;■•■■■ ... ■
During thosa first days there was no danger for Cilly, but tho great moment came when, her work-commenced. "I. had to face the animals for tho first tinto in a 36ft long cage,, and to begin, the work of. taming them,'' she says. "It was external circumstances that made me really couscious of: the danger; for at both ends of tho cago were firemen' with . hoses : ready ■ for action. 3'
The secret of Cilly's'success is that jsho is on almost "personal terms" with her charges.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1934, Page 13
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176ON "PERSONAL TERMS" Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1934, Page 13
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