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Show Trixie Friganza, Jeannette Bageard and Marie Welch, of the "Prince of Pilsen" company, own andivided third interests in two chameleons pu -chased from a street dealer. With the sale went the suggestion that the lizards didn't need food particularly, beyond air and a fly or two, so they were left to shift for themselves in a perforated paper box in the hotel suite occupied by the three actresses. Miss Bageard came to the conclusion that the captives were too much cramped and had too little air. As air was food, and food was both plentiful and cheap, the holes in the box were too small A hatpin soon came into use to expand the table d'hote. Miss Friganza, Miss Bageard and Miss Welch arrLved home from rehearsal to find the chameleons chame-leons missing. Figuring their ability to clange colors according to surroundings, the most careful care-ful search of the rooms was made, but without result. The next morning Miss Friganza chanced to lean out of the window and saw the truants bo-low bo-low sunning themselves against the brick wall of the building. They were just out of reach. Neither would they respond to a whistle. The purchase of the chameleons was Mis 3 Frl-ganza's Frl-ganza's idea, and she felt some pride in getting them back under restraint. Mis 3 Bageard and Miss Welch were called on to help. An interested group across the street watched the capture. They saw Miss Friganza, in a red kimona, droop from the window s'll and extend herself to the seeming limit of safety. Then, as if balked in suicide, with a chameleon in each hand, she was seen to be lifted back by invisible agents. The agents were Miss Bageard and Miss Welch, each with a death clutch on an anklo. Since then the chameleons have boen lashed to a chain. |