Word: malays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malaya Beastcatcher Buck trapped three black leopards for Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the New York Zoological Park. Black leopards are sports, are constantly being produced by Malaya's spotted leopards. They, too, have spots-under the fur. A Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby...
...Killer of Kuali, with 35 deaths. Mr. Buck wanted one of his victims used to bait a trap, but that was against the law. "To hell with that law!" said Buck, and whispered his secret to a Tamil shooter. A few days later the Tamil posed a dead Malay as bait, shot the killer...
...Shutdown. The International Tin Cartel (Malay States, Nigeria, Bolivia, Dutch East Indies) last week decided on drastic measures to cut the huge surplus supply. Production will be stopped entirely during June and July, resumed in August at 40% of capacity. Or, as an alternative, members may reduce their output 133% for June, July and August...
East of Borneo (Universal) is a combination of The Green Goddess and Trader Horn, of Hollywood and the Malay peninsula. Its heroine (Rose Hobart) is imperiled by the lechery of a brownskin potentate in silk leggings and by the lions, tigers, leopards, boa constrictors, crocodiles and monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates...
...producers of East of Borneo, instead of sending the whole cast to location east of Borneo, despatched cameramen who photographed, apparently, the entire bestial population of the Malay peninsula. These shots are interspersed with closeups of the actors in a property jungle at Universal City and with a few glimpses of the more docile snakes and crocodiles in the Universal menagerie. Although to a blind-folded spectator the animal noises would be indistinguishable from those of a defective steam radiator, they are effective and even terrifying when combined with good photography. Morbid shots: a man being devoured by alligators...