Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...monkey scampered around, chattering and throwing things. The bull lowered its head and charged, the monkey leaped into the air, landed on a shelf above the bulls reach. There it amused itself bv tearing open a bag of green powder scattering the contents on the bull's hay The bull began eating the hay. When Farmer Lewis entered the barn he found his bull poisoned, dying. The monkey was still chattering while it licked Paris green from s paws. Grim Farmer Lewis said nothing. Soon the monkey stopped chattering curled up, died...
...manage at all but he has a sliding keyboard so that he can get the effect of playing in other keys. Irving Berlin creates his tunes by humming them. He sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in good Eddie Cantor fashion, after he had made a monkey of himself for Irvington House, walked away with the show...
Motion pictures illustrating the life of the anthropoid ape and monkey will be shown in the Lecture room of the Geographical Institute this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Large parts of the films "Chag" and "Rango" will be shown through the courtesy of the University Film Foundation. The best material on the gibbon and orang-utang available up to the present will supplement the talk on subjects of anthropological interest by E. A. Hooin, professor of Anthropology. Although the pictures are primarily for students of Anthropology A, the tax is open to all members of the University who are interested...
...Fatal Alibi. Two murder plays within a week (see above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John...