SHRIEKING BRIDE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 12

SHRIEKING BRIDE

ROMANCE IN A MONKEY HOUSE.

When Gladys first met Percy in Regent's Park, London, it was with, the consent and approval - of their joint guardians, who stood round and beamed (says "L.G.M." in the ".Daily Mail)". Percy, however, ruined his chances by trying to pull off hie finance'e's head, ana the guardians hurriedly broke off the match. Gladys was given quarters out of Percy's sight. under the Zoo's Ape House. Percy apologised in his . Best chimpanzee language, but a £30 'bride was not to be risked with such, a violent

suitoi... ..'... ' . ' , Last month the pair were re-united. Gladys had been separated from Percy for nearly 2£ years, arid it was felt that the bridegroom might be given another chance. , -

Gladys hung on to the bars of her underground den when the point vv^s raised, so her keeper went, in wjth a net attached to. a-long pole and pushed it over. -hei;- rhead. An assistant ''undiS" her fingers. Then arose the most lamentable shrieks. Yelling .something about "choosing her owji; career," Gladys was carried upstairs to Percy's cage. Tlie male chimpanzee was kept off vtfith an iron rod while the frenzied female was pushed into his den. Then the screaming hairy bundle was released. She rushed at Percy and knocked him over,.but it was only the agitation oi the moment. Their arms were round one another the next minute, and it was quite clear that they were going: to be good friends. Gladys (who is nicknamed Sally after her famous forerunner] has paid Percy a most queer compliment. He suffers from lumbago, and shuffles round the cage iv.a sitting position. ■ Gladys has ii fine' free lion-like stride, but when she saw Percy's shuffle she imitated it a,t once and refused to walk properly.,