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Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years old, had no known living relatives. He lived longer than any other gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy...
...scene is at the midway of the Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator...
...would hardly recognize his story, unless by the fact of finding a gorilla mixed up in it. But he might have a pleasant evening at the movie, nevertheless...
...from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people." In brief but adequate sketches he disposes of the Apes. "When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early...
...Mexico, wrote a book about it (Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first novel, Laughing Boy, a Navajo love story, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1929. Long, lank, dark-skinned, dark-haired, with a little mustache over a big mouth, Author La Farge has "low-swinging, gorilla-like arms," has some-times been mistaken by Indians for one of themselves. He is married to Wanden Mathews, lives in Manhattan...