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—Terry Moore, in the same film, wonders whether this really is Uncle Willie re- turned to earth. Did you ever see a lion smile? The answer is in the picture of Her- man and June Ally son above. At the top of the page you see Dick Powell hiding, he hopes, from Herman, who's good at finding. They are two , scenes from " The Reformer and the Redhead,” in which June portrays a zoo keeper's daughter, Herman her pet lion, and Dick her suitor who braves Herman for- love's sweet sake. noT so ■pROM the earliest days of film-making, producers have 1 realised that one of the many advantages that films have over the stage is the use that can be made of animals and birds, especially in their natural back- grounds. Animals have been tamed, trai n ed and domes- ticated by man for his use and amusement since the dawn of civilisation. The itinerant showman with a dancing bear or a troupe of performing dogs, the Indian snake charmer, were forerunners of the elaborate travelling circus as we know it to-day. But it has been left to the screen to make use of animals in an entirely new way—to introduce them as part of a story so that they wander about quite freely in the company of human beings in the film—in fact, to weave the story round the animals as much as round the humans. This has never been possible on the stage for obvious reasons. In film-making one perfect " take ” out of twenty attempts is enough. A day or more can be used in achieving one desired shot, and the film can slowly be built up on these shots. On the stage, the complete performance has to be repeated night after night, and there’s no chance of doing it again if an animal feels temperamental or bad tempered. Such films as Elephant Boy or The Yearling would, of course, have been impossible to translate to the stage. Silent films produced some famous animals, among them dogs like Rin-tin-tin, the Alsatian, who, if my memory serves me right, was the first dog. star of the screen. Alsatians are still the most popular breed for film work, and the best known of those on the screen to-day are Zorro, Ace and Flash, beautiful, intelligent and highly trained. A friendly, lumbering St. Bernard dog was responsible for a really hilarious scene with Robert Cummings in Tell It To The Judge. And those who saw the film doubtless appreciated what a large, restless dog with a wet, shaggy coat and a friendly disposition can do to a night's sleep. When the voice of Leo, the M.-G.-M. lion trademark, was ^ heard in the cinemas, trained Wj Below: James Gleason as Uncle Willie, with his pet cut, ' in " Date With Destiny ” atid — Dume /