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...Baltimore last week arrived the steamship City of Elwood with one python. When the City of Elwood left Shanghai it had two pythons aboard. One escaped in Manila, wandered ashore. Near a native's hut it saw a pig, which it swallowed. The pig was tied to the hut. Three days later the native found the python dying of indigestion...
...Pythons. In Philadelphia two pythons had lived in the same cage in lethargic harmony for four years. One was 20 ft. long; the other 18 ft. The 20-ft. python had eaten recently, and since pythons are seldom hungry keepers put a single 25-lb. pig in the cage for the smaller one. Next morning that python lay in a corner squeezed to death. His larger friend was coiled contentedly in the opposite corner. A bulge in his middle showed...
Most spectacular fight in this film is an enlargement of UFA's: a struggle between a python and a tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...
Other engrossing fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive are tiger v. water buffalo, tiger v. black leopard, tiger v. crocodile, crocodile v. python, python v. honey bear. The honey bear comes out better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy, he is the most charming of Author Buck's captives which include a quarter-ton elephant, a pot-bellied monkey, a white fuzzy creature which runs up & down on a rope...
From the map of his 22,000-mile Pan American Airways, able young President Juan Terry Trippe struck the last remaining legend of railway route last week. About his entire system, which coils like a python around South America, slithers across the islands of the Caribbean and flicks all Central America with its tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles...