Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunter) and goes into the jungle to get the specimen himself. In this way he obtained the only veritable man-eating tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed...
...Tiger Von Berlin (UFA). Disstinctly the most competent European talkie presented in the U. S. to date, Der Tiger Von Berlin is a murder mystery with German dialog and a German cast. It concerns the efforts of the Berlin police to get hold of a killer, known as the Tiger, who shoots his victims through the forehead before robbing them. Suspense gathers force by concentration; it is not distributed loosely among many characters, but narrowed quickly to two and still so deftly juggled that the ending is a surprise. There are only two murders in the course of the action...
Last week in Los Angeles, Alfred Hill, 12, and three companions .went to Luna Park Zoo to go hunting. Alfred took his jackknife with him in case they met with any lions or tigers. Seeing a bushy thicket, the four boys climbed a high fence which separated the enclosure from spectators. Alfred ran ahead, knife in hand, climbed over a low wall. Suddenly he screamed. From a thicket in front of him, sprang a huge tiger. It knocked him down, mangled him badly. Melvin Koontz, the zoo cat keeper, ran for his rifle, shot the big yellow beast. Alfred...
South American jungles contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
Deputies of the Egyptian Parliament met last week at the Saadi Club in Cairo because King Fuad has dissolved their parliament (TIME, July 7). Hotly they debated His Majesty's "illegal dictatorship," excoriated and flayed him, voted "no confidence" in Prime Minister Sidky Pasha. He, "The Tiger," ignored their menaces, continued to rule under royal decree. The deputies, through their party organizations, thereupon ordered a "nonviolent campaign of passive resistance" but this did not get under way last week...