Word: aped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dawn left Hollywood to fight with the British during World War I, but returned in 1919 as a make-up assistant with Universal. He began making whole false faces to suit parts. One of his first was a stiff, heavy irritating mask he wore in the role of an ape in 1925. In 1935, after nine years of research while doing makeups for M.G.M., he found what he wanted- a synthetic plastic good for making mobile, lifelike masks. It is of secret composition (the process is patented, but he gives it to the Navy free) which he calls vinylite resin...
Except for an occasional greeting which he extends to the African ape as he patrols the halls of the University Museum, Andrew Collins, one of the College's night watchmen, doesn't find much excitement in the way of burglaries, riots, or fires during the midnight hours...
...Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent than the rest of the cast, the pet monkey really stars. With his ability to steal pancakes only equalled by his talent in throwing apples, the half-pint ape has no trouble in making a monkey out of Haley...
Tarzan Triumphs—"a story of the ape-man's defense of the British Empire against the Nazis in Deepest Africa." To reporters in Portland, Ore., Lana Turner confided: "Hollywood is not as bad as some writers picture it. We have the most dignified and refined and gentle manly people that you could find in the world...
Sirs: Suggest that you refrain from using TIME'S important front cover for likenesses such as that of the yellow ape on your issue of Dec. 22. ... EDWIN DREXEL GODFREY Irvington-on-Hudson...