Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1916)

January 29, 1916. MOTION PICTURE NEWS 583 INTIMATE VIEWS OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT AND SALLY HIS MATE, STARS OF THE E. & R. JUNGLE FILM COMPANY Napoleon the Great" "Sally His Mate" Napoleon the Great, comedian extraordinary, came to the United States about six years ago. From the first lie was considered the brightest of his race that had ever been brought across the waters. His schooling has proven him a prodigy. Professor Richard Garner, the world's most able student of anthropology, late of the Zoological Society of New York, who has spent twenty-three years in the jungles of Africa, says he is the most intelligent ape, and the nearest approach to a human being that has ever been captured and trained. His Education Four years ago Napoleon was turned over to Lou R. Bristol, animal trainer, and a few weeks later began a vaudeville tour which has continued ever since. He has played over the Pantages circuit over the West Coast four separate times in as many acts, and over the Sullivan and Considine time which took him as far East as Buffalo, two times. He has made a trip to Australia and other Islands where he played to enormous business. His Accomplishments He does his roller skating stunt, rides a bicycle, has good table manners, works on the horizontal bars, is an expert on six-foot stilts and an eight-foot-frame bicycle. He also drives a specially constructed automobile which he can "jaz" and put in working order as well as a taxi chauffeur. He also does a loop the loop stunt on roller skates, and has fallen for the new dances, and is particularly fond of tangoing. A Benedict On Christmas day of 1913, Napoleon was' publicly married, the wedding taking place on the stage at the Pantages theatre, Los Angeles, in the presence of two thousand people. The beveiled bride was Sally, his mate at the E. & R. Jungle Zoo. He went through with the elaborate wedding ceremony without forgetting the ring or failing to kiss the bride at the conclusion, despite the fact that he was wearing a new evening suit, of which he was very proud, for the first time. Sally is of an absolutely different nature from Napoleon, and dislikes company very much. She is a little "homey" woman, busy in her home, a palm leaf hut at the zoo. Sally has a great liking for children, and three years ago, when a baby was born in the household of the caretaker, she became the nurse. Baby was but three days old when Sally first cared Tor her, and since then the two have been inseparable. The child and Sally have appeared in a number of pictures, Sally always playing the mother part. She is never happier than when wearing an apron and house cap. She is an excellent washerwoman, and keeps her kitchen as neat as a pin. The habits of Napoleon and Sally are like those of other leading men and women. In the morning they have their cold plunge, and a breakfast of fruit, cereal with cream, eggs, toast or hygienic wafers. The morning is taken up with their school work, both rehearsing their parts for several hours. When out with the boys at a banquet, Napoleon sometimes slips off the water wagon and will order beer or wine, which he is very fond of. Napoleon and Sally have played in "From Jungle to Trouble," "Uncle's Little Ones," "The Jungle Cure," "What D'ye Think of That?" "Pa's Family Tree," "The Adventures of Sally," "The Jungle Kid" and other laughable comedies now being released on the state rights plan. OTHER E & R ACTORS While Napoleon and Sally are the leading players at the E & R Jungle Film studio, Messrs. J. S. Edwards and John Rounan, the owners, known the world over as collectors of rare animals, have a very large variety of rare specimens, every one of which has taken part in the making of motion pictures. The collection includes lions, pumas, tigers, educated leopards, twenty-three varicttes of monkeys, including "John D.," the only white monkey in captivity; armadillos, elephants, Cuban tree rats, regal black and royal pythons, Alaskan martens, crown pigeons; the only Brazilian capabara in America; Colby's Vulture; emus and a Tasmanian devil; and "Congo," the West African uncivilized man, who scientists say is a representative of the connecting link between monkeys and human beings. The Executives J. S. Edwards, the "E," and John Rounan, the "R," are two of the best known animal show men in the country, having been engaged in the business twenty odd years. During this time they became thoroughly conversant with the likes and dislikes, characteristics and peculiarities of all of their scores of rare specimens, and are today, without a doubt, the most experienced animal trainers engaged in the motion picture industry, and their collection is by far the largest and most valuable of its kind in America. The company now has several very successful motion picture people on its staff, and are making one reel animal comedies. The Distributors You can book these comedies through: Greater New York, New York State and Northern Jersey — Greene's Feature Photoplay Co., 110 W. 40th street, New York; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut — E. W. Lynch Enterprises, Worcester and Boston, Boston, Mass.; Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Southern Jersey and Virginia— Electric Theatre Supply Co.. Philadelphia; Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa — Monarch Feature Film Co., Kansas City; Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia — Liberty Film Renting Co., Pittsburgh. aiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiii^ iiiiiiiiiiiiu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib