Monkey Art Lover Aka Monkey & Artists (1958)

Hampstead, London. L/S of Donald Ogden Stewart who is an American humorist and playwright. He is sitting at a table in a garden, surrounded by bronze statues and garden furniture. M/S of Donald at the table working on a typewriter. M/S of statues in his garden, they are not instantly recognisable as any particular thing, M/S of a statue called ’The Horse and Rider’. The narrator talks about Donald’s unorthodox taste in art. His wife, who is the writer Ella Winter, comes out of the house carrying a tea tray. She also brings with her Peter the monkey on a lead. She puts the tea tray on the bench and takes the monkey over to one of the statues where she ties the lead around the top. M/S of Ella tethering the lead to the statue. C/U of a statue in the garden called ’The Dancer’ by Marino Marini. M/S of Peter the monkey on the table and Donald at the typewriter. His wife puts his tea on the table, Peter keeps jumping on to the table from the statue and tries to interrupt. The narrator says the