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...Oscar S. Straus, 70, widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...
BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...late Carl Akeley, sculptor, taxidermist, proved to the Johnsons that lions that have never been hunted by man will not attack him. He showed them a valley inhabited by a dozen or more such lions, enormous cats, playing and sleeping. THEY WENT IN AMONG THE LIONS, spent two whole days photographing them. (The movies are now being shown on Broadway). Had only one lion attacked them, they could not have escaped death in the general battle which would have ensued. The native porters, watching from a nearby hill became convinced that their masters had a godlike, supernatural power. All this...
...Akeley. Three weeks ago, Mrs. Mary L. Akeley told the circumstances of her husband's fever last autumn on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo (TIME, May 23). The Akeley expedition obtained and preserved 'gorillas, studied the scenery of their haunts, aided the Johnsons in photography. Soon, in the Akeley-African hall of the American Museum of Natural History will be many a tribute to the arduous work that hastened the death of Explorer Carl Ethan Akeley, scientist-explorer-sculptor extraordinary...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...