NICE ELEPHANTS
BRING BIG MONEY. Frank Whitbeck loves big animals. That’s one of the principal reasons the Hal Roach studios filmed “Elephants Never Forget.” Many year's ago Whitbeck was “advance man” for a circus and he got very fond of the animals he ballyhooed. Recently a couple of circuses went broke and Whitbeck bought two of their elephants. He bought them simply because he liked them, and put them on a little ranch out in the San Fernando Valley. They are very nice elephants and too wellbred to make much noise or tramp over fences. When ‘Elephants Never Forget” was being considered for production, Producer A. Edward Sutherland remembered Whitbeck and his friends and the rest was easy. For £9O a week Whitbeck rented both his animals to the Roach studios. Only one played a role. She’s named
“Queenie” in real life, but is known as “Zenobia” on the screen. The other acted as “stand-in.” Her name is “Sally.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 4
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159NICE ELEPHANTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 4
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