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By TARLETON
THE RARE VISCACHA, FROM PATAGONIA
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which my jungle stars will appear on the same program with Mary Pickford, Geraldine Farrar, Dustin Farnum, Anna Held, and other mere human beings.”
His students have been gathered from the four corners of the world, but their attendance is not voluntary. He is the director, and his stage manager is Charlie Snyder, head keeper and lover of reptiles and animals. The star of the school is not one of the monkeys, as might be expected, but a sober-faced old porcupine, who can portray every emotion of the animal world, and on the Rialto would be called a born actor.
In taking the pictures it is necessary to exercise great patience, for it is mostly a waiting game until the right moment comes and the camera gets into action. After waiting the best part of a week to get a few feet of film showing several monkeys playing a real game of hide-and-seek, he figured out that it would be much better to spend the time wasted in waiting, in teaching the animals to do just what was wanted.
Meeting with success in teaching the monkeys several easy tricks, he decided upon a more serious effort ; in widening the scope of the teaching, he also admitted other species to the classes. The next to capitulate to the camera were the trumpeter birds. It took two weeks before “Trumpeter’s Romance” was
“graceful” diving frog of
TROPICAL AFRICA. HE NEVER LEAVES THE WATER
THE FLY JUGGLING TROUPE, ONE OF MR. DITMARS’ HEADLINE ACTS
“rT'»HE Ditmars School of Dramatic Arts for Animals” is now open at Scarsdale, New York. This statement can be verified by communicating with Raymond L. Ditmars, Curator of the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx, who has joined the ranks of celebrated directors for the screen.
“We are now taking,” he announced in answer to my inquiry, “many unique and. I feel justified in adding, wonderful pictures of the inhabitants of the Bronx Zoo, which, of course, will be at the sole disposal of the Paramount Pictures Corporation thru my ‘Institution of Learning.’ We believe that our films will be a great service to science and that they will be an amusing and instructive boon to grown-ups and children who see them in the best theaters thruout the United States, at
rHE SNAKE-KILLING SECRETARY BIRD OF AFRICA
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