Word: gargantuas
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...shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches and the spectators' nerves. Half a hundred elephants galumph around the ring and take a bow in unison. Hubert Castle staggers like a drunken clubman on his tightwire. And in his air-conditioned, chrome steel cage in the menagerie, Gargantua, the 550-lb. gorilla who at eleven years is probably not yet old enough to mate with M'Toto, his presumed gorillass (TIME, March 3), makes the angriest faces in the world and then wearily turns on his audience the silver-grey, pointed-fox smoothness of his huge back...
...swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume off her back...
...Toto shuffled coyly across her cage and played with her black & white kitten Principe. Gargantua sulked...
...Circusman North so far was so good. Said he: "Gargantua is infatuated. Naturally M'Toto was modest and bashful." When he is reasonably sure that they will not tear each other apart, he will let the couple share the same cage...