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...shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley as the family pet of a wealthy rancher...
...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...
Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...
...Healy, the actor who adopted a chimpanzee and a pygmy "with a head like an inverted ice-cream cone" and would never explain the chimp other than by saying solemnly...
...When the chimps were thoroughly accustomed to working for money, Dr. Wolfe made the currency more complicated. Blue chips dropped into the chimp-o-mat yielded two grapes instead of one. A red chip was worth a drink of water. The chimps soon mastered this system...