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...Perelman and Will B. Johnstone turned out the scenario of "Monkey Business" back in 1931, and the gags are still free of wrinkles. The plot, such as it is, has to do with four stowaways-the Marx Brothers-and how they manage to get off a luxury liner. The entire film is a chase, with Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo in front and the captain and his crew behind. The running stops from time to time to allow for the situations, which are about as hilarious as anything the four zanies have ever done...
...crop-raiding monkeys: Rigging up electric lights to scare off the monkeys, said Gandhi, "would be violence in the name of nonviolence." Moreover, it would simply drive the monkeys to the fields of neighbors not rich enough to have electric lights. Then he amazed his followers, who believe it sacrilege to kill a monkey (sacred to the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman), with "if we must save society as well as ourselves from the mischief of monkeys and the like, we have to kill them...
...produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...
Mickey Finn. In Tacoma, Wash., a truant monkey for three days scampered through treetops, across rooftops, was finally brought down by a banana doped with sleeping pills...
...head alive with twining cobras; Haidu, Tlinglit and Salish masks from the northwest Pacific coast, representing ancestors who could appear in various shapes at will (one, a wooden wolf-head, came open to reveal a fearsome cormorant); a proud yet friendly mask of Hamtman, Javanese version of the Indian monkey...