Bingham Bulletin | 1929-09-26 | Page 3 | Tiger "Did His Stuff" and Guests Scattered

Tiger "Did Hi. Stuff" and Guests Scattered An exciting and novel Idea for a party was originated by the Marchess Cnsatl, Lord Hunting's beautiful mother-in-law at Venice. The ninrchesa received re-ceived her guests seated nn a golden sphere wllh a real tiger lying at her feet. The animal bad been brought from a local zoo, and Us keeper, disguised dis-guised hs a guest, was tn closo attendance. at-tendance. So enchanted, however, was the keeper by the splendor of the scene all the moRt beautiful women of Venice were there, and It was a costume affair that at the moment when his services were urgently required re-quired he was off his guard. The tiger was asleep, and one of the women guests, mistaking It for a rug, gave it a slight dig with her foot Immediately Immedi-ately the "tug" gave vent to a roar which froze the marrow of all present pres-ent and trotted toward the door. Many of the women fled screaming from the room. Fortunately the keeper was able to recapture the beast without troubleLondon trou-bleLondon Mall.