Word: apes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provincetown Players gained renown in the theatre world by introducing Eugene O'Neil's earlier plays such as the "Hairy Ape" and "Anna Christle." Their Playhouse was built on a wharf and the sound of the water splashing on the floor below the seat created an excellent atmosphere for O'Neil's drama of the sea. The Players of that era are gone, but their Playhouse remains with a group of young talented actors and actresses. This weekend at the Playhouse Arthur Miller's modern adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is billed...
...Ape. Despite anatomical similarities, said Adler, men and apes differ "essentially in kind," not in degree. Only man "makes artistically," only men "machinofacture," only men "communicate ideas," and "only human society is constitutional or political." Men and apes, he argued, are as far apart "as a square and a triangle. There can be no intermediates-no 31-sided figure." And since there are no intermediate forms (no missing link), there can be no common ancestor...
...across the campus, soon moved out across the country. A Harvard professor called the lecture "the kind of statement Bryan used to make in the Bible belt." At Fordham, an anthropologist countered with the flat assertion that the "old story about man being nothing better than an educated ape is completely false...
Yesterday the zoo--which calls Makoko "the finest specimen in the world"--embalmed the ape and sent the body to the Medical School, the brain to Columbia...
...week, as Peggy faced the cameras in her first part in a new Katzman epic, Jungle Safari, her discoverer declared himself more than satisfied. "She has a wonderfully expressive face," he reported proudly. "She will be a big star." Her human fellow actors were already, complaining that the "damned ape" was stealing all the scenes...