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In a Movie Menagerie
The Russian wolves were imported to do Bolshevik pictures, but their long suit is howling, which they do artistically and musically upon any occasion. They supported Monroe Salisbury in "The Guilt of Silence," and howled for Dorothy Phillips in "Paid in
Advance."
bone about you, do you? — well, anyway, please tell the public for me that I'm not a man-eater as I seem to be in jungle pictures and animal comedies — I'm just a social lion."
Then I was introduced to Joe Martin, the famous chimpanzee, who lives in a cage with "Skipper," a sassy little monk who imposes dreadfully on the good-natured Joe by stealing his peanuts and then refusing to hunt fleas for him, and who swore viciously and violently in Monkese when Joe was let out of the cage while he had to stay inside.
"I feel that I can confide in you," Joe told me after I had established an entente cordiale with a bag of candy. "We stars are always maligned — that is the penalty of fame — and I suffer greatly from remarks the low-brow extra animals make about my ancestry.
"You've heard that old Darwin scandal?" he continued, choking on emotion and a piece of candy.
I admitted that I had, but added that of course I didn't believe all that I saw printed in books.
"On my honor as a chimpanzee," he said earnestly,
Joe Martin, besides being a star comedian, is often called upon to act as nurse.
putting an arm around my shoulders, "there isn't a man — either cave or pre-historic — in my entire family ; I assure you, I haven't a single family skeleton in my cage !"
Joe went back to Skipper, who was insanely shaking the bars of the cage and courting suicide by swinging from the roof by his tail, and I went over to talk with Charlie, the elephant, who was standing in his cementfloored stable, making vague signs in the air with his trunk, and shifting uneasily from one foot to another as if suffering from chilblains or corns.
"I suppose you want to know how I like being in pictures." He remarked when I told him he was being interviewed. "Well, it's no life for a self-respecting elephant — I'd rather be hauling logs down in Africa where I came from. Every time I'm in a picture I have to be dry cleaned because there's no tub large
Charlie Elephant has been a fixture on the Universal lot for five or six years, using only one trunk during the whole time. He has worked in sixty pictures of various kinds, among them being "The Lion's Claw" and "Wild Lions and Loose Bandits."