Word: gibbon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest (Fox). The most important things in this picture are. of course, the animals-forlorn tigers prowling in their tiny cages, a blackfaced grey gibbon nibbling a bun with sophisticated gestures, a stampeding elephant who wrecks the lion house. But the people are exciting too. There is a sentimental young attendant (Gene Raymond) who amuses himself when lonely by holding long talks with the chimpanzees and who burns as many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when...
...Husband, Berkeley Square and a picture by Preston Sturges, to be called The Power & the Glory, have been announced. During the manufacture of Zoo in Budapest, the Fox studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece...
...first time in the 104-year history of an event properly and completely described as "The Boat Race" that either crew had won ten times in a row. Last year, in a sporting effort to make the boat race more of a contest, Brigadier J. H. Gibbon, famed oldtime Cambridge "Blue" and amateur rowing coach, went to Oxford to see what was the matter. This year Brigadier Gibbon was helped by W. Palmer Mellen, young New Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled by the continued failure of their boat, old Oxonians last week fell back...
...misses highly reflective and imaginative writing. They describe dangerous rapid-shooting and unruly pony caravans in terse language. Consequently, such light touches as the doctor's delight in finding a native with a rare skin disease, the rooster imitating a missionary who disturbed the natives, and the pet gibbon who juggled a Tang Dynasty plate without smashing it come as high spots in the story...
...Barrett Wendell prize is awarded annually to the Sophomore in the field who has made the most notable progress. A 12 volume early nineteenth century edition of Gibbon was given to Boorstin, a member of the CRIMSON editorial staff...