Jane's Pets

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Jane's Pets

JANE WITHERS* personal menv agerie now adds up to 278 pets—and all answer to names except the tropical fish. The little star is proud of the fact that all her pets have congenial and appropriate homes—a knotty pine chicken house for the chickens, turkeys and <minea hens; special dog houses and runways and awnings for shade for the dogs; down-feathered, covered-wagon beds for the cats; indoor and outdoor cages for her birds; the latest type of hutch for the rabbits, special ponds for the baby alligators and the tropical fish, and'a cactus garden home for the turtles. Here is the latest revised list of her pets, and their names: — Four dogs—Rex, police; Lord Redfield, lun champion Irish setter; Shadow, a Scottie; Susie-Q, a Pekingese puppy. Two horses —Red Fox, chestnut sorrel; Bingo, buckskin pony. ..,,,., Four doves —Eenie, Meenle, Minie and Six pheasants—Randy, Bandy, Sandy, Candy, Tandy and Andy. Two rabbits—Charlie McCarthy and Dopey. _ _~ One parrot—Senorita. One white canary—Beanie. Four cats—Angelino, Snow White, Smoky and Midnight. Three turtles —Ranger, Maude and Marchie. ... Six guinea hens—Alice, Claire, Una, Patsy, Martha and Betsy. Two turkeys—Tina and Tony. One rooster —Charlie. Four baby dueks —Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don, Ameche and Jack Haley. Thirteen Mallory ducks. Fourteen baby chickens. Twenty-four white Leghorns. One hundred and eighty-seven tropical fish. ... The big mystery to the stars friends is how she finds time to pet her pets. Jane's hours between scenes in filming are spent in the studio classroom, but nevertheless no one has a more loyal group of pets. They all answer to name when Jane calls, but she usually doesn't have to because they all flock around as soon as she nears their respective homes. A visitor in the Withers home declared that when this happens it looks like the big simoon scene in "Suez." ♦ ♦ ♦ +

A USTRAIIAN-born Constance Worth, formerly a reigning movie favourite of "Down Under," returns to the screen after almost a year's absence. She will appear in a Crime Club production, tentatively titled "Murder in the Surgery." Miss Worth came to Hollywood a year and one-half ago, hailed as one of the most promising ever to arrive in the film capital. She will play a frivolous nurse in the new mystery film, which features Bruce Cabot and Helen Mack.