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...assistant, another piece to another, then puts them together in private. Not since 1927 has he performed in the U. S. During the interim he toured the world. He was in Berlin when war broke out. Promptly the Nazis ordered him out of Germany. Says he: "That monkey in Germany cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Dante's Inferno | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Busy Bodies | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotsy Totsy | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives her a pet monkey and some soft words, sets out to replenish her treasury and hamstring King Philip by hijacking the Spanish gold train in Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...truckload of refrigerators, took on an extra salesman. By last week's end the refrigerators were all gone and Storekeeper Ballew had moved some $8.000 worth of merchandise. With one week to go he addressed a final plea to his customers: "Folks, it's just like the monkey said when the lawn mower ran over its tail -it won't be long now. We must clean up our stock before we join the ranks of the State's non-paying guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Prison Sale | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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