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Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
Thirty years ago, at her home in Havana, Mme. Rosalie Abreu began to collect live monkeys. She kept them in cages but under conditions as close as possible to nature. She brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing...
...various intervals a United States Senator momentarily forgets his official dignity and plays the buffoon to the great delight of the chamber, the galleries and the nation. There are times when a member of the legislature can play the sedulous ape and relieve the tediousness of law making without consequences detrimental to his own reputation, the state which he represents, or the august body of which he is a member. However, now that Senator Helfin of Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter...
...automatically several of the Farrar operas disappeared from the repertoire. Carmen lingered on, endured several musty performances and snuffed out like the rest. For Carmen may have a handsome Don Jose, a swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...Miss Murray must be admired, most of all, because she refused to descend to the level of her audience. For the theatregoer who storms the box office to see his or her cinematic god or goddess in person, however, the notions that the movie star should play the sedulous ape on the stage and chameleon-like run through their past repertory of screen characterization, is one of the pseudodoxia epidemica which die hard...