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...arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...
...voice of stunning richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat (1928), in which he sang Ol' Man River, was Othello, which in 1930 drew 20 curtain calls in London; in 1943 it ran for 296 performances in New York, a Broadway record for a Shakespeare...
...years since Fay Wray was strung up in a delightfully sadistic way as bait for the huge ape, only to conquer his marshmallow heart. Universal will follow the original faithfully. Wray's part has not yet been cast, but Fay herself, now 68, will have a cameo role...
...Diggers of 1933, starring Ginger Rogers, he uses similar clippings to demonstrate a haunting similarity between fiction and fact in the 1930s. Random scenes from King Kong (1932-33), for example, invite a comparison of the fright inspired in New York subway passengers by the ravages of an overgrrown ape to the frenzied fear of bank failures felt by investors during the Depression...
...number of the sounds are effected off stage in the usual way. But Kahn, in quite a few instances, brings stagehands into full view to stimulate the required sounds. So we see a man imitating a cock's crow at dawn; and another enters to ape a train whistle by blowing into a set of three wooden pipes. When an 11-year-old Joe Crowell appears to deliver the morning newspapers, we spot another fellow crouching to create a swish-plop on the stage floor with a wire brush and a soft beater, while Joe mimes the act of delivery...