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...called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Bride of the Lion | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Anthropologists have long suspected that in Japan twins are born less frequently than among whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by infanticide. Investigators Taku Komai and Goro Fukuoka of Kyoto Imperial University pierced this veil of obscurantism, sifted hospital figures and midwives' records, found that Japanese twins are indeed scarce: One pair in 160 births, as against one in 87 among U. S. whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Japanese Twins | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...anthropology are the only two fields of knowledge concerned exclusively with human biology. Medicine is much more important to the ordinary man, hence is much more lavishly endowed. "Anthropology," explains Dr. Hooton, "reveals many things which most persons prefer not to know, since it harps upon humble and even bestial origins, regards the present status of our species without approbation and can predict for the man of the future no apotheosis but only a multiplication of psychoses, dental caries, malocclusions and fallen arches, together with a full retention of his aboriginal cussedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pessimist's Proposal | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Charles Laughton gives us Captain Bligh, an iron-willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...ANIMALS. $25 FINE. The "$25" was a bluff, since New York magistrates fix their own fines, usually assess persistent animal-feeders only $3. But zoomen felt their lie was white in view of such zoological mishaps as the following, all caused in recent years by visitors catering to bestial appetites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Don't Feed the Animals | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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