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...dice games) because he so frequently comes up, for food. Little Joe, procured from a bankrupt Florida circus, has been incarcerated at Universal City ever since it was built, 17 years ago. Also from a Florida circus came Chimpanzee Joe Martin. Innocent, obedient, clever, Joe Martin performed in Tarzan pictures, was sold back to a circus seven years ago when he became unmanageable, began to annoy other Universal monkeys. He may be repurchased to act in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Largest mammoth ever used in cinemas was Universal's Charlie, an agreeable and intelligent elephant who helped...
...press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after the War: "I got the Italians worked...
Divorced. Elmo Lincoln (real name: Otto Elmo Linkenheit), cinemactor (Tarzan of the Apes); by Mrs. Lincoln. Grounds: another woman...
Married. Joan Burroughs, daughter of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes); to James Pierce, cinemactor of Tarzan, chosen for the part by Joan Burroughs; in Los Angeles...
...Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage...