Word: apes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Ehrlich's laboratory assistant (Edward Norris) really turned himself into a human guinea pig, inoculated himself with 606 after it had worked on an ape, is unimportant. To criticisms of such free handling of biography in his pictures, Director Dieterle long ago wrote the best answer. Said he: ".. . The dramatization of a man's life is condensing, and not copying, the historical facts. It is the steam, and not the water, that moves the engine...
Most infant prodigies are unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation appears a youngster who does his own musical thinking, can hold his own in the company of talented grownups. Such a precocity usually causes a sensation, even among hard-boiled critics...
...mistress, old Jo himself does a bit of murder, and finally they all go to England, where Obispo uncovers the Fifth Earl of Gonister, who nominally died a century ago. The secret of living indefinitely has already been solved: the Earl, at 201, has matured into a raging fetal ape...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
Koenigswald and Weidenreich agree that the Java "ape man" as well as the Peking man is definitely human, and that the Peking Man specimens are probably older chronologically (from geological evidence). It remains uncertain which of the two is the more primitive from the point of view of evolution. That question may be answered if, on some happy day, anthropologists stumble on a common Pliocene Age ancestor of China's and Java...