ANIMAL ENTERTAINERS
9 AN APPEAL TO AUDIENCES TO ABSTAIN JFiiOil APPLAUSE. "May wq suggest to music-hall jjatrons" (the secretary of Hie -National Canine JJofcnce League writes to the "Westminster Gazette") "that they should refrain from encouraging by their app:auso the stage performances of animals? "There appears lo be an influx of theso turns from abroad, just when many British animal showmen are thinking of giving up the busiuiss k'cuusa tlie.v do not wisn to be associated with a calling which bears the stigm* of ernelty. "Apart from the sufferings of the animals in training, these turns are often disgusting, especially when the animals are compelled to pretend that (hey are drunk. Let the British public prove themselves to be animal-lovers by abolishing tlies? shows—cruel to the animals and degrading to tho halls they appear ip."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 10
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135ANIMAL ENTERTAINERS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 10
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