Oddities: Girl & Lion; Legless Man; Famous Elephant Dies

Long Beach, Cal. - Selects odd playmate! - Lion replaces doll in affections of 3-year-old Betty Jean Bench 02:04:47 Girl sitting on bed frame feeding bottle of milk (?) to young lion laying under blanket. MCU. Girl lies n bed playing w/ lion bigger than she is. Oddities; Stunts; Gags; Animals; 02:05:53 Title: Baltimore, Md. Science marvels at legless lad! 20-year-old Johnny Eck exhibits amazing ability despite handicap. 02:06:05 Using arms to work out w/ vertical weights; turns around on hands & exercises while facing camera, then up & walks off. 02:06:22 Walking in on rail, wearing top coat & bow tie. Bows on one arm. Pulls out deck of cards, flips & shuffles them. 02:06:33 On rooftop climbs up steps of step-ladder & does one-arm hand stand on top, descends. City in background. 02:06:54 Walks around stone balustrade w/ street below using gloves on hand. Buildings seen behind him. Backs across stones on rooftop towards camera Oddities; Stunts; Gags; Animals; Handicapped; Freaks; NOTE: Born 27Aug11, died 28Apr91. Best known for role in Freaks (1932). Had normal twin-brother Robert. 02:07:10 Title: Cincinnati, Ohio - Famous elephant dies at age of 120! Tillie goes to final rest, mourned by fellow pachyderms 02:07:21 Large elephant pulling dead elephant w/ cable, man w rifle & couple walk behind in wooded area. 02:07:32 Two men beside dead elephant w/ red cross on forehead, large cross w/ Tillie on it & wreath. CU cross. Man pats elephant. 02;07:54 Performing elephants, two w/ red crosses on foreheads. 02:08:07 Large crowd around grave of Tillie. Three elephants, one fires cannon. another with cloth on trunk wipes elephant’s eye. Stunts; Animals Death; Trained Elephants; Robinson Circus; 1932; NOTE: Robinson Combination Show had largest elephant herd until bank panic in 1916 had to sell all but for to Ringling Brothers. Robinson kept the four oldest: Clara, Tillie, Tony & Old Pitt on his property, Terrace Park, Ohio.