Marilyn cooper sabu biography of barack obama

If you were a “kid” growing up in the United States or Canada in the nineteen-forties, you probably spent many a Saturday afternoon at your local movie house.

Marilyn cooper sabu biography of barack obama

For twenty-five cents you got admission to the theater, a box of popcorn with enough left over for carfare home. Once in your seat you were ready to spend the next four hours watching a double feature, usually consisting of a western, a cartoon, a chapter of an ongoing serial, a newsreel and a second feature.

And on the occasion that one of those features starred a diminutive Indian actor with a broad smile by the name of Sabu the Elephant Boy, then you knew you were in for a rousing adventure, usually in Technicolor.

Whether he was riding thru the jungle clinging to the back of the man-eating tiger, Shere-Khan, while trying to kill him by stabbing him with his “tooth,” or leading a herd of elephants to the rescue of Jon Hall or Maria Montez, or combating the evil intentions of Conrad Veidt, or flying on the shoulder of a gig