Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate to say it and I know some persons who don't like snakes are very nice persons but Mr. Bean was frightened and frightened persons will exaggerate. I do not feel I was guilty of carelessness. I just forgot, simply forgot, to close the door to the cobras' cage after I cleaned it. I couldn't do everything at once. All other snakes that got away were harmless except Bandy-Bandy and I'm sure he went down the drain pipe. The cobra," she added affectionately, "just found the coziest place it could in the whole reptile house...
Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...
...Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...
...KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing...