Evening star., 1912-09-01

Louise KENTS MONKEY ACT
The actor who expresses scorn ior
vaudeville engagement frequently gives
as his reason for stunning the two-a-
day" that It is a hurt TO his dignity 10
appear as an entertainer on the same
bin with trained dogs or trained monkeys
This almost Is as frequently accepteo
by the pubic and the critics with con-
sfderably more than the gram VI se-i'
required as proper seasohihs ioi
tai digestion But there Is at ieast one
actress whose objection to appearing on
the same bill with trained monheys IS
very logical and at the same 1nle
amusing She Is Louise hent oi s .e
Poll PLAYERS Miss Kent does not ooIec.
10 vaudeville per Sc: but she does op1ect
strenuously to trained aiiih9i avs
here Is the reason:
Three summers ago Miss Kent was
headliner on the Pacific coast. Sne was
presenting her own sketcn. Soio, a
sisted by a leading man and leaoins
woman On the same bill with her IN
Seattle was a trained animal act Two OF
the dumb performers were enormous
sinjans one OF which was a very VICIOUS
gray brute and the other docile brown
monkey. The animal ACT pfeceueu -h1so
Kent's on the bill.
One afternoon toward the close OF the
engagement. Miss Kent heard consloer-
able confusion behind the scenes just as
When she gave the cue for her ieadns
woman to Join in the conversation there
was silence, but very pronounced tiltei
proceeded from the audience. The actress
looked behind her, and there In the cen
Ter OF the stage was seated one or the
biy monkeys which had escaped from It's
keaper. Both of Miss Kent's associate
PLAYERS were seated on the stage aP-
parently paralyzed with fright. Reail2lns
that her own playlet was In jeopardy
IL Iyrlly-
key, seized IL by the back of the neck
fshe had remembered her brother had
told her an animal could not bite Wniie
held in this position.) She walked quick
ly to the wings. continuing with her INES
all the time Then exerting all her
strength she thrust the animal from her
and returned TO the center of the stage
10 take up the scene where it had been
interrupted. But she was stopped by
perfect thunder of applause
NJ was not until the curtain fell that
Miss Kent remembered that the gray
monkey was vicious and the Drown
animal tame. She had forgotten to
notice the color of the one she had
collared.
Faint with excitement. now that the
danger was past, Miss Kent asked
whether she had chucked the gray or the
brown variety.
"Huh." was the trainers grun re-
tninder. ''if you tried to handle old gray
beard you would have had to wear
Wig at your next performance!
THE GIBSON GIRL.-"Gibson girls
are to be seen on many billboards around
the city just at present They are the
features of the photographic pictorial an
nouncements of the coming to the
Academy this week of a play based on
Robert W. Chambers widely read book,
The Common Law"
Out of consideration. for n lifelong
friendship for Charles Dana Gibson. the
artist who created the "Gibson girl" Mr..
Chambers dedicated his novel to him. By
way of reciprocating Mr.. Chambers act
Of courtesy. the artist. for the first time,
1t Is said, has allowed his pictures to be
used for advertising play. The Gibson
drawings copied iii the autographs on
billhoards throughout Washington, show
many of the tense situations In the
Chambers story.