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...absurd demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives...
...through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition her remains, whalebone and all-largest skeleton of the species ever to pass under the scrutiny of Science...
After 28 years in the museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...
After the mother whale was caught the baby swam unhappily along the shore until it, too, was killed. Its bones were recovered without difficulty, later traded to the British Museum for the skeleton of a dodo...