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...Moscow itself, the most popular foreign films, reported the New York Times, are Tarzan and Tarzan in the West, both of which are carefully presented to audiences with a Soviet explanation: Tarzan was cast ashore in Africa as an infant and raised by apes "without the slightest contact with pernicious bourgeois American or English influences...
...seven animals got their "Patsy" awards (the annual animal "Oscar") for outstanding performances. The first-prize winner: Rhubarb, a stealthy, orange-colored cat which starred in the picture of the same name. The other winners: Diamond and Smoky (horses), Corky and Chinook (dogs), Cheta (a chimpanzee playmate of Tarzan), and Francis (the "talking" mule). There were minor disturbances-Smoky was frightened and frisky; Diamond was nervous enough to misbehave onstage-but, all in all, the evening was a success. Moreover, it was a true sign of a new Hollywood trend: movies starring animals are really making money, hoof over...
...Tarzan Cleared The Russians have had to make certain kinds of sacrifices, too, because of the cold war. They have had to do without Hollywood movies, for example. Last week this particular form of hardship was eased a bit. Showing on Moscow screens was a Tarzan film, billed as the first of a series...
Prewar Moscow moviegoers loved to watch Tarzan hurtling from bough to bough, keening his apelike jungle call. Now, a Soviet film introduction makes it plain, Tarzan may safely be admired again. After all, says the preface, though he was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was "uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization...
TEXAS Buried Treasure On a sunny afternoon in Dalhart, Texas last June, twelve-year-old Don Monroe and two friends were swinging Tarzan-like from a tree in a dusty alley back of Don's house. Don noticed a rock-like object half buried in the ground, dropped down to get it out of the way before somebody fell on it. When Don tried to dig it up, he got a surprise. Though only half as big as a small pie, it weighed about...