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...March makes you have never heard since you played locomotive on the nursery floor. Mr. Hyde is conceived here as a playfully sensuous figure rather than as a really sinister one. He bounds about in his new-found freedom like an overgrown brownie or a slightly cretinous baboon. Stevenson made it clear that "Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil...
...tactful and vigorous social worker (Nikolai Batalov). From time to time they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure of a baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide...
...version by rubbing his face with one hand and writhing. Fredric March takes advantage of the camera and makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while...
...Switzerland 51 years ago, he does not disdain a knowledge of drawing. One canvas, which looks like two Scots fighting with bolts of tartan but is labelled Fishermen, is an interesting arrangement of colors. Lorenzo, a rapidly sketched portrait of a small surly boy with a face like a baboon, stops and holds most observers...
...does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets...