MARVEL OF A DOG

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21530, 30 December 1931, Page 11

MARVEL OF A DOG

ACTRESS’S STAGE MATE THEATRICAL DISPUTE. Unless some arrangement is reached between tlie parties to a dispute which has arisen in the Paris theatrical world, the Court of Referees may be asked to say whether a dog may be regarded ad one of the dramatic person® of a play. Tins point has been raised by the co-authors ot a piece which is in rehearsal at one ot the theatres of the boulevards. Mile. Maud Loty, a popular comedienne, is very indignant because she has been refused permission to appear on the stage with her dog. In the play Milo. Loty is the owner of a dag sufficiently intelligent to be able to make the acquaintance of people to whom his mistress would be too modest to speak in a public place, and then to guide them to his mistress’s home. Realising that such a role was full of amusing possibilities, the actress bought Teuton and trained him until he could play his port to perfection. But the authors have now objected that be is too human, that he usurps more than his fair share of attention, and throws the whole action out of balace. “You must change him for a more ordinary kind of animal,” they insist. “He gags too much.” Milo. Loty is adamant. Teuton, she holds, is a canine marvel, and she refuses to act without him. One of the muchtried magistrates of Paris may have to meet Toutou in order to decide.