Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1915 — MONKEY BARBERS ARE COMING HERE [ARTICLE]

MONKEY BARBERS ARE COMING HERE

Simian Tonsorial Artists Among Many Features With Gentry Brothers Shows. The only monkey barbers in the world are coming to this city next Thursday, Sept. 2, when Gentry Brothers Famous Shows will give two performances here. These monkeys are trained to enact scenes common in a barber shop. The comical situations which develop as a result of monkey nature are indeed laughable. When the shop opens an “old gentleman” monkey, in all dignity, walks in. He takes his seat in a chair and tells the monkey barber he wants a shave. After placing the towel at his throat the barber decides he needs a hair cut. In the difference of opinion which follows the' monkey barber gets angry. He fills the patron’s mouth full of soap suds.* Then he catches up an enormous pair of shears, and the damage he would do is checked only by the timely arrival of a trainer. This monkey barber shop scene is a most amusing presentation of animal nature. It is, however, only one of scores of unique displays which Gentry Brothers Famous Shows offer this season.