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...seemed to think that to throw an untrained man into the hurly-burly of modern Hollywood would be like throwing a monkey wrench into the works...
...injunction against Guild picketing, was refused by Judge Leander B. Faber. Davega then discontinued its advertising in the Eagle. In another virtually identical case, the Guild lost. One Mile Reif's beauty parlor which advertised in the Eagle was picketed. One of the picketers dressed as a monkey and went through simian antics as he marched back & forth carrying a sign "I was once a beautiful woman." Another picketer shouted: "Don't patronize Mademoiselle
Unruffled, Superintendent Johnson had his office redecorated in the modern manner (cost to Chicago taxpayers: $5,000), subscribed to a clipping service and immediately plunged into a strenuous campaign to try to make a monkey of leading educational opinion. He issued a series of decrees changing the curriculum, setting up separate vocational and academic "tracks" in the high schools, eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last...
Dorothy Lamour (Jungle Princess, High, Wide and Handsome), lithe but unathletic, was publicized by Paramount, which loaned her to Goldwyn for Hurricane, as a jungle-woman who lived on bananas, coconuts, papayas. A monkey and a leopard were planted in her apartment, over her protests, until the monkey got loose, so disturbed other tenants that police were called. Miss Lamour (nee Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty...
Meanwhile last week The Scheme was rapidly falling to pieces as members of the Non-intervention Committee consulted their home governments and received instructions. The Soviet Government threw a monkey wrench by insisting that all volunteers must have withdrawn from Spain before Moscow will agree to granting belligerent rights to Franco. The Italian Government threw an equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently...