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Altogether, those concerned with the animal research mourn the passing of most of the animals to the new laboratories, but no one has been moved to tears over the vacant monkey cages...
...Chicago's suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller...
Barber Breen of the Manter Hall Hairdressers, on the other hand, believes that monks were the first to use the short clip. "The short haircut is properly called monkey haircut," he said, "because the monks are the originators. The name monkey was given it by a Mr. Schneider, head tonsorial artist of the Hotel Vendome 41 years ago. He was the first to give the short clip and should know the proper title for it," Mr. Breen concluded...
...Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
Finally, Conservative though he is, Chancellor Chamberlain took the stand that he must be left as free to extemporize and monkey with the pound as President Roosevelt is to monkey with the dollar. "If this country were to go back to the gold standard, it would mean we were no longer free to adapt our policy," Mr. Chamberlain suavely told the Mansion House banqueters. Earlier in the day, before the Lord Mayor's wines had mellowed his mood, the Chancellor had said harshly what he really meant, "even the most tentative approach to stabilization is quite unthinkable...