Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
...underground is British Author Aldous Huxley, now living in Pacific Palisades, Calif. His nearly-completed novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, is scheduled for publication this fall. A realistic fantasy, it tells of a rich man who tries to prolong his life scientifically, eventually reverts toward an ape...
...Gorilla (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the old stage-&-screen shocker about the ape that murders like a man. Competently re-enacted by a good cast, it is made more baffling than its original author (Ralph Spence) intended by the three Ritz Brothers as wacky detectives...
...Years before, Frenchman Blondin, among others, preceded him, dressed as an ape...
...years' running expenses.* Soon there moved into this structure an odd assortment of men, women and beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators...