Show Valuable Monkey In Orpheum Act Succumbs to Cold Biddie iddie is dead As s a result heres here's wailing and gnashing of teeth in the animal room of the Orpheum theatre for tor Diddle Biddie was one of the aristocrats of the big flock of animals carried by the act billed as Finks Fink's Mules Mules Mules-a a monkey valued at several thousand dollars and rated one of the best trained of the simian tribe in captivity Biddie Biddle died early arly this morning from a severe verl cold contracted In Los Angeles and aggravated by the long i trip here She was being cared for forin forin i in a separate room but all air aUthe the other animals seemed to Immediately sense her death They had been restless all night and grew more so as Biddie BIddle grew weaker And when she died every animal in the act even the staid and usually unconcerned mules I seemed to realize that their companion compan compan- ion in fun and frolic had passed out Biddies Biddles understudy was hardest hit of them all even though she rises to stardom in the big animal act through the death of her mentor Biddie taught her all all all' the tricks she knew and all day today she grieved and could scarcely be consoled But she will wB go on tonight and in all probability probability proba proba- burty the Orpheum audience will never miss Biddie Biddle But the mules and donkeys and dogs of the Fink act will miss her I even though they go through all their stunts and as usual I I I I I I 1 I I |