Word: perfilieff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a menagerie would a menu keep alive and healthy during an ocean voyage from Buenos Aires to York? Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, generalissimo of an animal-catching expedition to the Matto Grosso Jung Brazil (TIME, June 1 et seq.), found it sufficient for the following, which he landed safely in Manhattan last week
Carefully confined in wooden cages, the collection was shipped at once to the Philadelphia Zoo. In coming months the animals may be seen here & there about the country-together with archaeological, ethnological and other zoological exhibits-when Capt. Perfilieff goes forth to lecture. He will tell how his friend and colleague Alexander Siemel got his foot bitten by a crocodile, how another member of the expedition caught the long-legged tu-u-u after winging it, carried it his arm for miles...
Left behind on the ranch, but to leave there in November or December with their collection of animals caged for U. S. zoos, were Alexander Siemel, chief animal man, who has recovered from an alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition...
Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson,* chief backer of Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's Matto Grosso expedition, was at Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
...story: Siemel's brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel's brother in the back; he was a long time dying. Siemel is now with his friend, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff on the Matto Grosso Expedition in Brazil, making a cinema of jungle life and taking animals alive for the Chicago Fair (TIME, Aug. 25). He was planning the cinema when he was with Duguid. He was also planning something else. Said he: "When I have finished my film I ... shall...