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Tarzan, the Ape Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins in matter-of-fact fashion when a young English girl named Jane Parker (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives at the cozy hut of her father, an African trader. She is a pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...lead in the race for House traditions. With its High Table, its bells, and more recently, its ties, it has demonstrated that Lowell House spirit is a thing to be desired, even if it has to be crudely manufactured. In many ways it has played the sedulous ape to Balliol, a practice not too well received. As someone remarked, the House is attempting to look smart in a borrowed pair of old pants. Lowell has been the first to establish practically every House activity. It was the first to look for a House crost, staged the initial House dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: LOWELL HOUSE | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

During N'Gi's illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of N'Gi | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Motion pictures illustrating the life of the anthropoid ape and monkey will be shown in the Lecture room of the Geographical Institute this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Large parts of the films "Chag" and "Rango" will be shown through the courtesy of the University Film Foundation. The best material on the gibbon and orang-utang available up to the present will supplement the talk on subjects of anthropological interest by E. A. Hooin, professor of Anthropology. Although the pictures are primarily for students of Anthropology A, the tax is open to all members of the University who are interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTION PICTURES OF APE, ORANG UTANG SHOWN TODAY | 2/24/1932 | See Source »

Piqua, Ohio, knew about the Mills boys when they were ragamuffins drumming up trade for their father's barbershop. They had no money to buy instruments so they learned to ape them. The family moved to Bellefontaine, 30 miles away. John, the oldest, got a job in a greenhouse. Harry, the fattest, became a bootblack. Herbert, the slickest, turned hod-carrier. Young Don, 17 now, was lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Brothers | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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