Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Washington Butler, 76, onetime Tennessee state representative who authored the state's 1925 anti-evolution bill; near Lafayette, Tenn. The Butler Bill set off the explosive "monkey trial" of Biology Teacher John Scopes and furnished a stage for the rhetorical fireworks of Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan v. Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow...
...Monkey Business (20th Century-Fox) works overtime at a far-fetched plot about a laboratory chimpanzee who accidentally mixes an elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
Ponderously written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond, and noisily directed by Howard Hawks, Monkey Business has some amusing monkeyshines. But the picture's simple-minded running gag wears thin long before the elixir of youth wears out for Gary and Ginger. Also prominently on hand: Marilyn Monroe as a pneumatic private secretary to whom Boss Coburn hands a sheaf of copy with the instruction: "Find someone to type this...
...those from Faye Emerson's neckline and those from the profile of Miss America. When that happens . . . it makes the masculons and the femitrons in the stratosphere fly off on tangents in all directions at high speeds-hence flying saucers. They are just electronic illusions caused by the monkey business that goes on in TV studios...
...pits, while mechanics hastily switched a propeller to Slo-mo IV from her sister boat, one grease-monkey advised handsome Slo-mo IV Driver Stanley (Dollar Steamship Line) Dollar: "Remember, the lead is everything." Dollar roared out to challenge Miss Pepsi for the front spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water...