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...comics, here plays a small-town boy so superstitious that on the thirteenth of every month he wants to stay in bed clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone...
...with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
...live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa...
...Monkey Hill in the London Zoo, home of 40 Abyssinian baboons, had to be closed to the public last week. The monkeyshines there had become no laughing matter. George, a young member of the baboon colony, had stolen a female belonging to the "king," the oldest, largest baboon of Monkey Hill. Taking her into an inaccessible place, he had piled up a barricade of sticks and stones. The king, who still had another mate left, squatted nearby, uninterested, curiously watched the indignation of other colony members...
Mobbing together, they attacked the bad baboon's barricade. After two days of siege, George and the female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...