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Much is expected from the children of Cameo, the clever dog star.
Queenie, the leopard, has her first starring role in "The Great Circus Mystery."
Coco, a monkey here from India only a short time, shows quite remarkable talent.
Baby Animal Stars
Each year brings a new crop of promising talent, and duced to some bright young animals who are likely
By A. L. Wool
CHARLES B. MURPHY, animal trainer at the Universal Pictures zoo, shuffled into his office bungalow, threw his cap to the floor, slumped into a "chair and reached for his old brier pipe. The perspiration stood in beads upon his forehead and his hair was disheveled.
Outside, a dozen lions were beginning that hideous roaring which precedes the close of day. Monkeys were screeching their jungle calls. An elephant was trumpeting from his stall in a barn. Leopards, bears, wolves, coyotes, apes and camels were evincing the restlessness which comes to them each day just before the sun goes down.
It was the daily concert, the vesper service of the beasts. It told the veteran trainer that all was well in the cages and lairs. "That blamed chimpanzee," Murphy began, "is a problem. I had him all dressed up this afternoon, working as a waiter in a restaurant scene. Got along fine till I put food on the tray to be served to a customer. He ate it !
"Then I turned him across my knee and spanked him — not the kind of a spanking that hurts, you know, but an easy little paddlin'. He thought it was great stuff ! Now what are you going to do with a fellow like that? I wouldn't hit him for anything in the world. It'd break his heart. But he's got to be taught that garcon's task is to serve and not to eat — in public. If I bawl him out he'll drop tray, food and all and crawl under a table. And waiters don't do that ! At least, I've never seen 'em do it."
Unconsciously, the trainer was disclosing one of the problems which confront men who teach animals to work in photoplays. Of all trainers who work with dumb beasts, the task of those who tutor descendants of jungle land is the hardest. Patience and patience and more . patience, day after day, week after week ! "Jiggs," the chimpanzee with which Murphy had been working, has been "going to school" for two years. He is being groomed to take the place of Joe Martin, the famous orang-outang