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...Gorilla is one of those productions which are offered with the request that the circumstances of the plot remain undivulged. Since the plot is the picture, there remains little to be said; except that an enormous artificial animal in the title role makes it very exciting for the rest of the cast and the entire audience...
...James Theatre--"The Gorilla"--8.15 o'clock.--Saw this Freshman year. Is well preserved...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...What well known animal, besides the gorilla, chimpanzee, guinea pig, two-tailed sloth, orang-outang, has no visible tail...
...other African fauna, narrowly escaping with his life when a bull elephant gored him and kneeled on his chest and head (his wife rescued him, mulilated); when, his rifle empty, he had to throttle a wounded 80-pound leopard; when he contracted "Black Water," vilest of tropic fevers. Gorillas were the subject of his latest studies, pursued in the gorilla sanctuary he had been instrumental in having set aside by Belgium. He embarked on his last trip last spring with George ("Kodak") Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera maker, who was financing his work for the American Museum's African...