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F-4 BOS'J'C-- POST, DECEMBER 12 1920 MONKEY SHINES AS WHILE MAN APES n-r- Patrick Walshe Becomes Jungle Beast in 10 Minutes; Joe Martin, a Regular Simian, Likes to Lead Upright Life Joe Aiartin is doing his best to set his pretty interviewer at ease. It requires consderahle effort, you see. for his to across' 'and be converted into pothooks in the notebook. 5, scene was being- rehearsed, and was sitting placidly in a corner with his trainer, A. C.

Stecker, just-out of the range of the camera. The villain stormed into the room where the heroine wa.a preparing for Bight. In a thunderous voice he commanded her to show him where the papers w-ere hid. She trembled. He threatened.

Then ambling by Dr. Serge Voronoff of that the transplanting of the inter.stitial gland of an ape will rejuvenate a man who ha.s become "Such a proceeding may well be with alarm by members of mv Mr. Martin said in his statement to the press. "AVe any more interstitial glands than we need, and there i.s no reason w-hy w-e should give 'Pat Walshe, tlie who amuses thousands with his monkey pranks, learned at iir.st hand from the famous (Photo by J. C.

Wadc.J The intermittent man, halt monkey. 'I'he last traces of Pat Walshe arc fasty-Tiisappearing behind the coat of gray paint. (Photo J. C. Wade, Post Staff.J Pat Walshe hops Joe Martin, the man-monkey, and Pat Walshe, the monkey-man, will stage a headon collision in Boston this That is to say, Joe is to appear in a photoplay, while Pat is still going strong on the stage.

Joe is starring in his own right in the silent drama, Prohibition while Pat is getting away with real monkey talk, which he learned from a in the primeval forest scene of You Each of these unique actors has been interviewed and gives his own ideas of life experienced from the ape angle. 4 and they played games together like children. To this, day carries picture round in his hrea.stpocket, and it isl about to to pieces from nnu'h handling. Man Tells How He Became a )) Pat Put on Monkey day the thought came to why not play ape him.self to of alcohol in the laborator.v and upsetting the camera the next time a set. may be its own reward, hut probably the exception to the rule." Uses Man Joe is riglit; he is an exception to almost every rule laid down by the lords of the jungle.

Whoever 'I'lio f'mal stage of the transformation. up on a chair like a real Note gray paint his face. 4 --------------------------------------------------------heard before of an ape becoming a movie star? Joe has been that a while. Tor it has been seven years since Joe long-armed, bow-legged and bewhi.skcred—ar­ rived from Borneo in a heavy crate addressed to the Universal Studios. Put under the care of A.

C. vSteckcr, the trainer, Joe learned to do simple was used gradually to do a in a feature or a serial. Only recently, however, has he attained stardom in this new picture, Prohibition But once in a while his primeval spirit asserts it.sclf, and Joe does a little man to the Joe iMartm, the needs no disguise to bring out hi.s ape features. His friends in the jungle of Borneo would never recognize him. 4 of the rest of the company.

Recently he gave a sample of this while' an important scene was being staged at Universal City, Joe's headquarters. Tt was Joe's business in that scene to aid the villain in stealing the papers from the beautiful maiden, or something like that. across the room with the docu- them up iM gay old dogs who didn't ap- ments. Right here proceedings wore theirs when they had them, disrupted by chivalrous instincts. "There are any number of interstitial With a growl that might have been i glands in various parts of the body, and interpreted as done right by our Joe the villain with his long, powerful anns and pulled his Tegs from under liim.

The villain fell it may be true that some of these can be removed without fatal results. But if we allow the practice to become general, how do we know that those we to the floor with a startled cry for help, prize most highly will not be removed and Stecker had to explain to the surreptitiously, when we have been told trained orang-outang that the threaten- that only some inconsequential gland, ing attitude was all in the picture. say in the neck, i.s "Why sliould we apes sacrifice our-, selve.s that some rich old Romeos can rlounder around iuid get in the divorce courts again? Dr. Voronoff can't make us the goats in this matter. Det him use goat glands if he enough of What He Thinks of (iland Treatment Joe, hy the way, is the first of his race to express for them his view.s on the recent scientiiic theory propounded i his Hub Gir Snubbed Crown Prince and Faced Spy Charges Dainty Horse-Breaker Becomes Heart-Breaker and Will Wed Baron lo little and blond and has appealing blue you guess to look at her that Agatha is a horse- How woulil like to be made He.

wa.s Crown Princes, a VC tn hv a innnkcv I getting ready to marry a baron 1 peculiar knack of projecting his jaw With a career even more romantic than her own Patrick Walshe, the (amotts t.toit- out ot ami for- Boston is only about the 47th iAcident in her varied key can tell you all about it. And you can also leant tliat it takes fearless courage, besides an iinustlal knowledge of monkey psy- chbiogy, not to he disturbed when those great, hairy babboou arms cling tenaciously to your shoulders and the grizzly giant jaw and thick- skinned lips seek your own. The movement of fear on your part would mean your undoing. You mustyauswer the uiotikey's raucouh laughter with your oavu shouts of glee, and you must give kiss for kiss, or you are a dead man by one swift movement of that iron arm. Patrick Walshe knows the monkey as as does the monkey hiirself.

The evolutioni.sts saj' it takes about year.s to turn a monkey into a mail. But Pat Walshe had the secret of turning a iman into a monkey in about lO ftnd such a perfect specimei; of apedorn Anguishes the ape from man. that he can fool the most suspicious, chimpanzee in the jungle or on the fiercest apes he knew of. and the was eoifffiletely deluded. That satisfied I'at, and he began liis novel ward all the muscles of his fare to Hiesemhle a faro.

All he needed was a hair outfit. Tie offered his services to a thoatri fat manager, and the manager said, "Why not monkey hair all over "EJut I might want to take a hath some Pat objected. The manager shrugged. What was a hath compared to a iinicjuc role such as Pat proposed to play? went away thinking. WJiy not an outfit of his own that would fill the bill, ho tiiought.

and would at the same time he removable? Me did it. He went to a and had a wonderful hairy suit male which fitted him a He got some false teeth which projected like a He then began to e.v- periment with his fare, trying out all kinds of paint and shadow effects to get the right monkey angles and humi)S. Gray jiaint, he found, produced the. best cfTects, and hy using it to shade around his eye.s and cheeks, the illii.sioii was comidete. His wig matched the hair of hi.s was brought down low over his brows with that receding effect which dis- She tells all about world-wide adventures and how she happened to come to Boston, in this exclusive interview.

dust trail. But it took Patrick longer than TO i minutes to leam Just now to Ijecome a ilonU. It look 01: Jiardshlits, pluck and real grit lor E'at- to get to the point where he could place his deficipncies on exTiildt to amuse public. And although is hut 3 feet 1 frx-hes tall, he has a full size c-hurage and a full size Tirain.s. J'atrick started out to he a business )fian, but constant relation.s witli nor- i nial sized husines.s men made liiin sol sensitive about his own si-ze that thoilRhlfully.

'j Monkey Tells How He Became a UJULT Th( had Joe grpiitcd, scrafching hi.s iicek caused him much suffering. a ong illness, during which his swept awa.v, he deciued to start fre.kili. put his sensitivenes behind him, ignd go into vaudeville for the purpose I Cf making folks laugh at him. i was about 14 years ago. L'or-aj wTille he did a stunt with The Tiising which was a clever men 'of every size, from Pat-i 3 feet 11.

up to men on stilts, out 1 feet high. When the I'oHies up in first big harct revue show of its kind- with them, and rcnmined in four or fise years. i But Still he quite Hei a ved there weye still further possi-i ties for niaking himself a thing of 1 the public. He had loved liUe on me road he ide it a poitd to go and vieit the zoos 11 the keepejH got to know him. ami got special favors from them, tlie cages with (he apes and studying their manners and by the hour, lie got so proficient in his Imitation of tliem, that oace when he got on a make-up and visited tlie cage fit a fierce chimpanzee, he completely fooled the brute and foiled if.s attempts to make him afraid hy act.ng the part of a fearless and valiant ape himself, and matching the chatter with monkey talk of his own.

Tt was when lie the faniims Barmim Circus afic, that Pat learned what it was to i be made love to hy the, of the species. He and I trainer spent.several weeks in the cage with studying her and encouraging her confidence and rollicking spirits. Many is the time knocked Pat with mighty arm in an the. usr? "For years ht'en a model monk. "I'Tarly to lied and early to rise lias hem my "Fxcept wliei) jiavo acted before The camera 1 liave never sampled im convivial cup.

shimmierl to the tune of a Jangliug jazz and liavc avoided wild females of the and orang-outaiiK variety. earliest infancy I have observed all the sage advice to youth laid down h.v Gonfiuiins, Poor Richard jmd William Bryan. "Recejitly I took" unto my- a charming siiouse find liave made her tlie Iins- hand any cliimpam.ee ever had. "I have given iq) my membership in the Jungle Gluli, have buried the cards and the dice and bring my yellow envelope every Saturday night. "Vet what do I find? At flie age of 7 1 actually not lee a bald spot on my noble forehead and a gray hair in my auburn whiskers! I see other simian friends, older than 1 am, who have the very deuee of a life, with a head of hair like Ji'rank Mayo ami gray Tniirs as scarce a.s teetJi in a pullet, "I think ril give up the simple life.

try man for a change. 1 might begin hy kicking Mrs. Joe Martin in slats. ing a out of my leg, itlllng up on that barrel that she SfH'iit every day from 7 a. in.

to 10 p. m. in it, and got the Inihit of going without lunch which she still keeps up. A .1 I began to enter Tier Imr.ses to nainc her Agatha the county shows and in the race.s. )ccausc wa.s the eldest daugh- so that she ter, and that has always been the Rcifcnstein family custom for the Bhe took her horse.s all over Hurope! last 400 years.

And it without linaneial liacking, DHicrAeici' I 'jtA, 1 cardinal points of Jthcrwise ani sure they would her career that she insists on being In- havc called her Diana, Brunhilde, Bependent of everyone, even Tier par- or Hippolytc. It was an ironicaU thrown on her own cesourees soon learned to stand rate that her with the up in a horse deal to tlio slickest vel- iiame a meek little Saint. i of the game. Hhe, bought and sold Tor Agatha came, to Boston froni i of huiope, and when her groom was Denmark to horses i drunk, curried them herself and at- and incidentally to teach young their sTiipjiiug ladies and gentlemen of Brookline Snubs Crown Prince how to ride. ut the hoary age of that sin- I But she is distinctly a voniig lady Grown Prince of 1 1 A 1 Dennuyk.

Slie had made arrange parts -besides being Agatha, merits with the military authorities at i Gojreiihagen to have the use of i armory at a. certain after- noon. She came tliere with her instructor to her riding stunts for a big horse show next day. A.s she cantered into the ring she saw a handsome youtli of IS or so cantering around and she pas.sed liim frigid look hy way of inviting liim to leave. paid no attention to the slqi of a girl on horselrack, kept on riding and in jmd about a.

minute rai.sefl Tier young voice and crddly apprized the young rfTfni tliat she had hired the hall and would he please ire good enough to depart He looked at her in blank aniaze- or horse-breaker, she is Agatha, movie star, smibber of a crown prince, "PVaec speaker of seven languages, and will shortly become a baroness. And thereon hangs half a flozen tales, each a fitting mate to others. I cl she is poles removed from I the type. Yon would single out for a strikmg iig- nre this slip of a girl with a head jit straight bobbed blond hair, small high-bred features and skin of 1 had a breathlessly c.xciting* trip. Appears in Jockey Cap She wore the little mUlit-a khaki riding habit with riding Holdier'H fonr-in-hand tie and jaunty black vd- et jockey cap.

may have other clotlmH, hut no one ha.s ever seen her in them and wet k.s thia iH her In other word.s. ahe i.s a genuine are practically her only pal.s-excepf. of course, the baron. And the baron is that way ha.s been living in the jungle for some timo with tigers as his nearest neighbor.s. he arrive.s in Boston next week to make Agatha his Tiarones.s—but getting ijhead of the story.

Our trip around the world that morning began in home town in Denmark, or rather, an island, the I Island of Liselund. Here is the Reifen- i estate where the family lives in rieace and plenty with enough servants HO that the two girls need not so much us lace up tlieir Here Agatlia, at the ago of four, learned to ride one of the old farm hor.ses, and later on, when she had learned more about hocse.s than anyone knew for miles her neighbor, the young father built her a riding school and let her teach her neighbors. Sho w'as so enthusiastic about the I orviii ui to then, with i very fine Icxtnro; hut a.s sat jamused laugh, cantered off and dis- lumchcd lip the hack of an auto I I I motor ar emblazoned with the royal paiKCfl III llie stable, she: crown spun up to ITie maje.stie took me all over the world, and in livery took the young horse and the young man climbed into the car and made off. Agatha held her breath for a short Ctonselous that.the man slie had snuhbed the future king of Denmark. An official approached her with terror 011 and asked if she knew It wasi the crown prince she had ordered out nodded hriglitly.

Tlie terror clianged to adnijration. tlie only per.son who could have done it." he remarked. -As traveled from country lo cuun- O'y, Agatlia acquired more than a knowledge of horses. Stie learned, for instance, to speak in seven language.s. Agatha Reifcnstcm.

Imr.tc hrcahei, movie and a lot of other diings, besides a haron- e.ss. hv M. T'eiuhcrg, Post Arrested as a Spy li was lier proficiency in tongues, Tiv the way, that caused iier arrest in South Russia, wliere she had gone to shew liorsos, just when the war broke out. Tier passport.s were stolen from her, and the Germans accused her of being a spy because of her seven-fold phwers of aiid her up "The of it aiipcals to jne, I weiu and ucin.ss ii on horseltnef; lor had to eul ttie lee for us did a runaway with a alter me. and some ollar Brief, casual, modesl wav ot about her (hnlling adventures.

They all in the. day's work with her. Slie wa.s a little less casual about the Baron, however, altliough when I ufikcfi liei- what she wouhi fio it lie decided to lake hei- hack to the junele with him, she said with a little toss of her bend: "I shan't give up nding for the Baron oi- anvone else. He can slick around In rc if he wants though I sTie ineltofl a little, "I ought to do sometluiig for him, coming S'.) far (oi get 'I'he great liaromal estate o( her Baron Veniev you does not attract lierun tlie least. inipre.ssiro Iktni.sh ancestral home with its 'se- ciel passageways and line oil iiuint- are lo this litlle gypsy just so much boredom.

seitle there when we're old," she decian without enthusiasm. "But and I want about for a job, and the Packard Riding School offered her just the opportunity that suited her. Here she can ride and break green horses to her a job sho id doing, in a man's way. She will Tiave none of jobs. AVhen she hears of a horse up in the environs of Worcester, up she goes and gets him and rides him back to Boston, every inch till his spirit is broken and he obeys her like a lamb.

"i like a horiie like she remarked to me. "I give a cent for a horse that There are mustangs and Indian ponies, too, in the stables. break.s them to their paces and loves thepi as brothers, and they obe.v her slightest jolly well got to. No matter what the rain, snow or rides forth on the wings of wind, and po man stoppeth her. It is safe to say not even the baron can stop for he has known from her early youth.

He is on 11m high seas now, trying to reach Boston hy Christmas time. Will he "stick on a little which is delightful will Agatha forego her independent life in a Boston riding school and depart I with him for the luxuriant jungles of ETast India? suppose I ought to do something he NEW GLUE STRONGER THAN STEEL A new held for wood ha.s been opened hy the use of what is called ploy-wood and glue from the blood of tlie slaughter house of the casein, obtaineu from milk. Remarkable sturdiness under all conditions has shown b.v this combination. The combination was first thought of in connection with the manufacture of airplanes. Thin sheets of wood are laid one over the other with dry sheets of paper coated on botn sides with the new ghn.

The mass is then heated under and the result is that a structure i.s fonned whlcn IS stronger than steel and has many advantages over metal. wen glued together with these and tested in boiling water for eight hour.s. At the expiraiion of this time none of tlio pieces showed any separation of the plje.s. SO THAcT LM40- UOQO To THROY4 ME IKTO THE IF I PM SIXTY Agatha Reitcnstciii can ride bareback ja.st a.s well as willi a saddle. Slie doc.s ino.st of her dancing on horseback.

(Photo by M. Feinberg, Post Staff.) made great plans and preparations for coming of his bride, but somehow to tlie world tir.Kt, we both like things work out as he expected. gypa.ving. I bad no sooner got a nice bungalow In fact flic ha adventure.s liave run paralh-l to h.ers. They left home about the same 4 )egged her to come lyith him to India, Imt slie flouted the -Wviiation wltii a American "Notliing doing! I'll see how if you make good she took her built and a garden laid out when an unfriendly tiger came and rooted up Then malaria and typhoid fever claimed the baron, and he decided it might he wiser to get a little closer lo a doctor, ileantime Agatha had made her first brought her flattering-offers from film companies to do the stunts that their heroines dure not do.

and went to Sumatra. There he staked out a rubber plantation in jungle tiu miles from the nearest town. He home Not ith because home the Oscar H. long before Henry en- tleavored to engage it for his own party. Would she give up her ticket Henry wanted it? much.

would go along as the "peace which she did. She reached home in time for the influenza epidemic, and while fjie and her sister nursed the poor and needy she caught the di.seaae herself live 1 times. Then the soldiers began to fe- turn, and Denmark, like other Eluro- i pean countries, was filled with puthetic cripples. There seemed scarcely any whole men left. It got on of nerves, and sTie concluded it about time to take another trip somewhere.

America liad appealed to her from the start, and slie signified her intention of returning. Her parents had them well trained by this i Agatha set sail once more for the land of the free. Not content to shine in the social when the steamer authorities told her whirl of Somerville long, she looked.