The Archive · 1938

Sabu Makes Visit to New York

The "Elephant Boy" Likes American Gangster Cinemas and Speedy Machines Like most boys in their teens, Sabu has a tendency to grow, so that now he is not quite the same rollicking youngster who perched half-naked on the heads of giant pachyderms in "Elephant Boy." His face is naturally more mature—though it is still frankly boyish and smiling, with white teeth gleaming against brown skin. He wears long trousers and is—he proudly states—5 feet 4 inches tall. And he has developed a slightly skeptical attitude which 1s peculiar to all boys his age, even without two venerable Sikhs in attendance, on a recent visit to New York.

Most surprising, however, is the fact that this conspicuous son of India,

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