Word: jobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...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...
...African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
...present, the second Mrs. Akeley, was Miss Mary Lee Jobe, stalwart mountain climber (for whom was named Jobe Mountain in the Canadian Rockies). She married Explorer Akeley in October, 1924, he being 60, she 38 (TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, MILESTONES). This will be her first trip to Africa; she will shoot only with a camera...