Word: monkeyism
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Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...manage at all but he has a sliding keyboard so that he can get the effect of playing in other keys. Irving Berlin creates his tunes by humming them. He sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in good Eddie Cantor fashion, after he had made a monkey of himself for Irvington House, walked away with the show...
Motion pictures illustrating the life of the anthropoid ape and monkey will be shown in the Lecture room of the Geographical Institute this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Large parts of the films "Chag" and "Rango" will be shown through the courtesy of the University Film Foundation. The best material on the gibbon and orang-utang available up to the present will supplement the talk on subjects of anthropological interest by E. A. Hooin, professor of Anthropology. Although the pictures are primarily for students of Anthropology A, the tax is open to all members of the University who are interested...
...Monkey, Seldom is anyone killed in a mystery play whom the audience would care to have live. When Banker Kenmore of Monkey is shot his demise not only removes one more objectionable character from the world of fiction, but considerably enlivens a play. For Banker Kenmore was a vicious old rascal who sent his wife to an asylum, tried to blight his daughter's romance, kept a mistress. His death brings to the stage an extremely agreeable detective named "Monkey" Henderson, an eccentric police officer whose physique and peculiar actions have earned him his sobriquet on the force. Performed...
...Fatal Alibi. Two murder plays within a week (see above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John...