Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under First Mate F. Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
...baboon by the light of the moon...
Born Yesterday is strictly a show, and one with more bounce than craftsmanship. The first act-with its picture of the home life of a baboon and his blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts...
Woodrow Wilson: "a Presbyterian baboon"; Herbert Hoover: "a superior bookkeeper"; Harry Truman: "an 8th Ave. haberdasher"; Douglas MacArthur: "a big show-off"; Henry Mencken: "I guess I'm an old cadaver...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...