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Skunks appear most often in comedies, and Emma, who can always be relied upon, is pictured above with Jimmie Adams in "Whoa, Emma."
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That's what the mosquitoes, ants, bees, but they never fail to make good
By A. L.
BACK in my newspaper days, I would have delighted in rushing up to the city editor and exclaiming, "I gotta big story ! Hungry men and women, boys, girls — white, black, and brown — -standing outside the studio gates seeking work. A pair of mice, some ants, and a monkey got the jobs !" And it would have been a good tale. It is -a good tale.
Beautiful girls, Apolloesque men, talented actors — all looking for employment, and rejected. Yet there is work for trained fleas, civet cats, white mice, mosquitoes, cockatoos, rattlesnakes, lizards, and bees. And there is something for a crab, a cat, a monkey, and a dog.
Supporting casts in many recent pictures have brought forth rodents and insects which have almost stolen the honors. What would "The Campus Flirt" have been without Minnie, the little white mouse which scampered up Bebe Daniels' leg? And what a lot would have been lost if the ants had not been in Reginald Denny's car to swarm up his back, there to bite and worry him, in "Slow Down?"
How would Edward Everett Horton ever have met Virginia Lee Corbin in "The Whole Town's Talking" if a bee had not started crawling over her bare shoulder, thereby giving him the opportunity to say, "I beg your pardon, but there's a ferocious insect galloping around where your collar ought to be. Dare I remove it?"
Motion pictures have reached into Alaska for dogs to draw sledges. They have given work to monkeys from the jungle, rattlesnakes from the desert, cockatoos from Brazil, rats from Broadway, skunks from the riverlands, sheep from Nevada, gila monsters from Arizona, oxen from Canada, as well as to lions, tigers, leopards, chimpanzees and elephants from the wild and lonely spots of the Dark Continent. One man in Hollywood keeps a cage of trained squirrels for work in pictures. Another has civet cats. A third has owls. These animals earn from fifteen dollars to twenty-five dollars .a day.
When Lon Chaney made "The Road to Mandalay," mosquitoes were caught to help lend the atmosphere of Singapore to his sordid surroundings. They were to be photographed on the screen door of his lodgings. But they didn't want to be photographed. They refused to appear . before the camera. They whirred blithely away
when released, despite the application of much attractive ointment to the door.
A crab at Santa Monica Beach likewise refused to enact a role with Edmund Burns when the company making "Sunny Side Up" was there filming exteriors. It backed out of the picture.
A mountain lion shared many scenes with Jack Holt in "The Man of the Forest. "