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...strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives his yodel in a loud voice and advances on the dwarf village followed by a herd of friendly elephants. The elephants trample the village to bits and Tarzan disposes of the gorilla. Cinemaddicts will be aided in their understanding of this turn of events by recalling the recent cycle of gangster pictures. The elephants and apes are Tarzan's gang; at the end of the picture...
...Gastonburg, Ala. one R. J. Goode owned a herd of goats. If one of Mr. Goode's goats was suddenly confronted by a stranger its legs would freeze stiff, it would topple, lie still on the ground. Once Mr. Goode walked up to the herd, clapped his hands. The entire herd toppled. Neighbors for miles around discussed Mr. Goode's goats, who were so timid that they fainted at the slightest excuse...
...description of Manhattan subways as Father Robinson: 'With the even rhythm of great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace...
...system of State-owned refuges was developed, each refuge surrounded by an area on which hunting could be regulated by State law. Under this protection Pennsylvania's deer multiplied rapidly. Last week, with 80,000 acres of refuges, 1,800,000 acres of hunting ground, and a herd estimated at 1,000,000, Pennsylvania had several hundred thousand deer too many...
Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner, Dr. T. E. Winecoff, wrote about it in American Game. An annual kill of 20,000 to 25,000 deer, he said, "cannot be missed in this State. The deer herd now far exceeds the carrying power of their wild range, and-forced by hunger-they have become appallingly destructive to crops, orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game...