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...SENT FORTH A RAVEN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts- Viking...
...Baldwin, L. I., Dr. Henry Cushier Raven, associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, offered for sale Meshie Mungkut, 5-year-old chimpanzee. No ordinary chimp is Meshie. Four years ago Dr. Raven brought her from the jungles of West Africa to live in his Long Island home. As playmate to the young Ravens, Meshie soon learned the routine of civilization. Today she weighs 70 lb., is 3 ft. high, has the mind of a 12-year-old, will never be much wiser. Like any well-reared girl Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets...
...Connecticut. She keeps birds and gardens, admires the neighbors' babies. Every day her father ("Syd"), who keeps a separate home in Ridgefield, comes over to luncheon with her, eats in his shirtsleeves when the weather is warm. That Miss Farrar's energy and determination have outlasted her once raven-black hair was proven last summer when on the way to the Salzburg Festival, Nazis stopped her German chauffeur, refused to let him pass the border. Miss Farrar got out of her car, hiked a good five miles into town...
...brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human...
...Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers fairly itch." A classic with catholic tastes, Carl Laemmle Jr. Universal's birdlike little production chief last...