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Firpo, Argentine ape and heavyweight boxer, has the hardest punching knuckles in the business. The inside of his hand, too, is unique. The palm itches more severely than any other fighter's. At present Firpo is making dollars knocking down " set-ups." Last week he disposed of Joe Burke, of Detroit, in two rounds at Grand Rapids. He fights Charlie Weinert in Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Meanwhile he is on an exhibition tour...
...Firpo ("Argentine Ape") knocked out Jess Willard (" Huge Anachronism of the Ring") in eight rounds in Jersey City...
Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid type discovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of Amsterdam, the discoverer, will be placed in a public museum for the benefit of all scientists, if a movement started by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, succeeds. The fossil remains have not been exhibited since the 1894 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
...owners of "The House of 1,000 Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre tickets in Berlin now run to 39,000 marks or so. " Give us a couple of million, papa. We're taking the girls to a matinee!" The Hairy Ape has been passed by the British censor of plays for future production in England-all but one little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version...
Married. Louis Wolheim, 43, villain and hero of many stage and film dramas, including The Hairy Ape, to Miss Ethel Dane, 37, actress, in Manhattan. Wolheim was at one time an instructor in mathematics at Cornell University...