JIGGS HAS “RISE”

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 8 (Supplement)

JIGGS HAS “RISE”

CHIMPANZEE’S BETTER INCOME. PAYMENT OF ANIMAL STARS. Jiggs a year or two ago was merely a movie chimpanzee, earing 50 dollars a week. He then appeared in two Tarzan picture? with Johnny Weismuller and became a star. He now receives 350 dollars a week and works several weeks every year. At least a dozen firms at Hollywood do nothing but train animals for the movies. In animal-land you can get anything from a trained turtle to a dancing zebra. They can get cockroaches for scenes like that one in “Lives of a

Bengal. Lancer,” or lion cubs that can be hitched itp to pull a small waggon. Jack Boyle specialises in horses, all kinds of horses. The racehorse that fell So realistically in “Broadway Bjll” was Boyle's noted falling horse. Until three years ago, when you saw a horse fall in a dramatic movie scene, the animal very likely was tripped by invisible wires. Boyle and others did not like this cruelty, so he trained a horse to fall when he is told to do so. This horse has fallen many times arid never has been hurt. His salary is 25 dollars a day, with one fall included. The average salary for trained dogs, like the cocker-spaniel in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” is 100 dollars a week. Trained cats, of which there are few, seldom get more than 75 dollars a week. An elephant brings its owner 100 dollars a day, unless it has to be specially trained, whereupon the rental jumps to 150 dollars a day. Chickens and ducks work cheap. Qne can rent them almost anywhere for 25 cents a day.