Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow, but never fails to be surprised by what it gets-a "belt" by one of the biggest voices now at large in a nightclub. Said one guest: "I never heard anything so big come out of anything so little." Hitting on all decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then he plows them under with a number entitled Don't Put a Dent in My Heart (but "hit me, beat me, slap me around"). He also does a lavish...
Bonzo Goes to College (Universal-International) finds Bonzo, "the world's most educated chimp," enrolled at an institution of higher learning and winning the big football game for his alma mater as a razzle-dazzle quarterback. Bonzo* also caddies on a golf course, brushes his teeth (and then eats the toothpaste), takes a bubble bath and displays the finest of table manners while dining on mashed bananas, banana fritters and banana shortcake...
...original Bonzo of the 1951 Bedtime jor Bonzo died in a zoo fire last year. The present Bonzo II also doubles as Tamba the Chimp in Columbia's Jungle Jim series...
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...winner's rewards: $300 a week, stardom as Tamba, and tier own masseur (since chimps have sluggish blood circulation, the A.S.P.C.A. requires that chimp actors get a good rubdown after swimming scenes). Otherwise, the new star's life will be no tied of orchids. All her money will not even buy her a square meal-she must be kept hungry during the working day, so that the lure of a banana or candy can be used to help along her acting talents...