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Animal noises seldom before broadcast, have often and with great success been reproduced in sound films. Rin Tin Tin made his first public barks last month (TIME, April 14). Last week, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Co. was developing talkies of seals just made in Labrador and Raymond Ditmars, famed curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, who has already made a sound film of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, was preparing to make a talkie in an anthill...
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...Rin Tin Tin originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
...hunger. They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette, the only people left alive in a French town after it had been shelled. U. S. doughboys were giving their sweethearts images of these lucky lovers, little dolls made of worsted Duncan took the name for his dogs. The bitch died, but Rin Tin Tin reached...
...Rin Tin Tin is about twelve years old. He has been supporting Duncan since 1923. He has two puppies by a bitch a friend gave Duncan before Rin Tin Tin became famous. Cynical commentators have suggested that Rin Tin Tin probably "owes everything to the little wife." He lives in a wire training camp adjacent to the fine house in Beverly Hills that has been built out of his earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between...