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MAN WHO CONVERSES WITH DOGS.
THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ANIMAL TRAINER.
SEALS TRAINED TO CUT MINES ADRIFT.
A DAY IN A HOUSE OF WONDERS.
{By EUGENE LYONS, United Fem Stal Correspondent.]
Moscow. The tome of Vladimir jobs around the house as intelligent- Leonidovitch Durov-for two genly, and certainly more willingly, erations Russia's most successfu! than mest servants, animal trainer, circus clown and A catalogue of the wonders and animal paychologist-is literally a curiosities in this house would fill house of wonders. A visit there re-n book-has, in fact, filled several solves itself into a protracted series written by Duroy and others. The of exclamations.
few examples already cited will Although it is partly a zoo, part-suffice to convey the tone and spirit ya museum, at once a scientific of this podero Noth's Ark where laboratory and a circus training fish, flesh and fowl of nearly every ground, home" is the appropriate species live a busy co-ordinated word to describe it. The animals life. which fill the place, from the train-
ed rats to the performing elephant and camel, are almost as much a part of the household as Duroy, his wife and their daughter.
cause
Soaring Eagles,
An Extraordinary Man
gotten that he was committing murder.
His companions were looking on. sudden terror at his own act. In He could not publicly confess his
A panic he pulled harder, then let go. The dog fell to earth with a thud, strangled but apparently still alive.
"It's suffering! Kil! it quickly. someone, kill it!" the boy Durov screamed.
Pleading Eyes.
No one stirred, so he picked up he threw it he caught a glimpse of stone himself to end the job. As the dog's eyes staring at him, pleading and questioning. He and suffered a nervous breakdown fainted as the stone left his hand,
weeks. In his illness the eyes which put him in a sick bed for haunted him.
"They were human eyes and not animal eyes.". Durov recounted.
"What
The most extraordinary thing in is Durov himself. He has more this extraordinary house, however, than 30 years of work with animals behind him and, still robust at ea, Each of the animals is in its own him. Of medium height and stocky great many active years before way domesticated, obedient Duroy as head of the house and on magnetic eyes, and a walrus must-1
built, with bushy gray hair, large familiar terms with the other in ache, he radiates good nature and mates. From Durov down it seems confidence. Something of the in- just one family of living creatures. Huence which he exercises over
His eagles soar freely over Mos-animals is felt even by humans who I knew the question that was in cow and return home in time for come in contact with him.
then as clearly as if it had been dinner. The barking of his dogs is A schoolboy incident which sear-spoken in words. 'Why are you not mere barking; it is in a Funda-ed his heart and mind led Vladi hurting, me ?
they asked. fental letse conversation, be mir Durov to devote his life to
did I do to you? Why ? Every Duroy understands their animals, won for Russia its most where I saw those eyes. The 'eyes Innguage and "barks
famous circus performer and for of nurses, doctors, members of my A ferocious-looking wildcat, is science one of the most successful own family were inst like those busy mothering a tiny mouse.
students of animal psychology. ploading dog's eyes. They kept Nearby an ordinary house cat is "How did you come to take up asking the harrowing question. playing lovingly with a brood of your rather unusual, profession ?*** rats; they slamber all over her and the correspondent asked. Testle up in her fur to sleep. prowling wolf not only does not
attack
tarn put into his cage bat cowers in terror at the ram's approach. The ram in it turn is aware of his power over the wolf, chases him around the cage and. butts him playfully. It's generous-hearted ram though and does not actually burt his ancient enemy now that their roles are reversed.
responses.
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Seals and a baby walrus respond to Durov and his assistants with almost human understanding. The huge bear earns his keep by operat ing a machine which pumpa water for the other animals. Birds take all the joy out of hunting by run- ning towards the gun and perching on ita muzzle a buori as it is fired. Foxes spread carpeta for other animals to show their tricks on. The enniel waltzes. lions and tigers play house, even the porcupine does
stunts.
Run of the House,
"A week or so later the dog sud- denly walked into my room. The For a long minato Duroy hesistona had not killed him and he had tated. We could almost se him recovered from the strangulation. reaching back, back to boyhood He came to it bed and licked my days more than half a century aga hands. I looked deeply into bis and we sensed that the memory eyes and I knew that he remember- evoked was not a pleasant one. ed everything, remembered and Finally he said;
forgave inc.
I committed a horrible crime against an animal and have been trying ever since to atone for it.!!
Then he told the astounding story He was 13 years old and attending a military academy for the best families in Moscow. The Durovs have a rich history and the name appears again and again in the annals of Russia.
Story of the Orime. There were two dogs on the school grounds, one belonging to the boys and the other to a servant. Once, perhaps through jealousy, the ser- vant scalded the boys' pet with hot water. A meeting of the indignant schoolboys followed in which it was solemnly decided to avenge their pet by hanging the servant's dog.
Lots were drawn an to who should execute the sentence. Young Durov was among those boys. Little did he realize, as he put his hand into the hat, that in drawing the lot he was settling his own rather than the dog's fate. He drew the marked slip.
Lola, the four-year old chim- panzee, has the run of the house. She took an intimate and noisy in- te at in the United Press inter- view, smoked a friendly cigarette with the errespondent and proud ly showed him a sample of her first efforts in penmanship. Female vanity is apparently Lola's prin- He proceeded light-heartedly cipal vice, if vice it be. She primp-enough with his task. In the back ed in front of a mirror repeatedly, of the school he fixed a noose stuck com into her hair, tried on around the dog's neck, threw the hats and gloves, and spent her loose end of the rope over the spare moments twisting the hair on branch of a tree and pulled bard. her body with curling iron. At that moment, as. the dog began! A hospitable dog found matches to choke, he realized with a sense for our smoke and did other little of horror which he has never for
But I, did not forgive myself. In those crucial weeks I realized that animals feel joy and sorrow, that they are trying hard to un- derstand us and only need our help. decided to give all my life to them and I have been doing so."
As the
years were on and he be tame more expert in understand- ing and directing animals of al sorts, he decided that the best way its passion for entertainment. He to reach the public was through entered the world of the circus, but with a mind that was at the same time directed towards science,
He knows animals of all sorts perhaps more intimately than any other living person in the world to-day.One must watch him in their company to realize the extent of for them. He is head of the Rus his understanding and sympathy Isian society for the prevention of, cruelty to animals and takes a leading part in ameliorating the living conditions of various type of animals.
first
At the same time he is not vaguely sentimental about them. He treats all living creatures as a realist. Humanity
holds place in his affections and lower animal life must yield to the needs of higher. He seems to have no objections to the eating of meat or animals for their furs. to the hunting and breeding of
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (September 3.)
Water Polo: Chinese "B" V.R.C. "A" K.0.8.B. "A” K.O.S.B. "B V.R., 4.30 p.m.
Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15
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Queen's Theatre:"Torcat's Roos- teri," 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Torcat's Boos- Tides:-High: 10.42 a.m
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"Freedom of the Press," World Theatre: "Hot Heels." Star Theatre: "Corsican Love." Dinner Dances; H.K. Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides-High: 0.53 a.. and 10.51 p.m. 3.05 am and 4.24 p.m.
European Mails Outward: Europe vid Vancouver, B.C. (Emp.
Freedom of the "Press." World Theatre: “Hot Heels." Star Theatre: "Corsiesa Love." [of Asia)," 10 Am. Dinner Dances: HE Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 2.30 p.m.
Thursday, (September 5.)
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Friday, (September 6.) First Day of Rabi-al-akhir. Christian Helena May Institute, 10.20 a..
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World Theatre: "Gigolo " at Plum." Chinese picture, at 2.30 3.15 and 0.90 p.m. "The Mark of and 7.15 p.m.
Tides:-High: 0.01 a.m. and 10.27 Legislative Council Meeting, 2.30 p.m.; Low: 217 a.m. and 3.50 p.m. | p/m.”
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