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...Jewish-Irish show with the scene laid in a dry-cleaning establishment owned by two Hebrews. The people address each other in loud low-comedy style. They spray cleaning fluid at one another, punctuate much of their conversation with a vulgar oral noise known variously as "the bird," "the Bronx cheer," "the Chinese kiss...
Died. Rameses III, ram mascot of Fordham University's football team; by fighting two dogs at the same time; in The Bronx...
...died at the age of 65, cut off her unappreciative children without a single monkey, left the lot to be established by President Machado as an endowed and public Cuban monkeyhouse. "It was largely her pioneer work," said Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo), "which influenced Professor Robert M. Yerkes, head of the Yale psychology department, to establish the Yale station for research on anthropoid apes at Orange Park, near Jacksonville, Fla., where a chimpanzee was born about two months ago, under conditions suggested by Senora Abreu...
...poke fun at oldtime operetta is evident in his choice of name for his mythical kingdom-Magnesia. Very lamely some of his characters are dubbed Lieutenant Schpitzelberger, Baron von Sprudelwasser. The only comic intention of the librettist which comes off is his making the prime minister a fairly funny Bronx Jew. In general, however, The Well of Romance creeps along through interminable big chorus numbers, precious little ballads, noisy musical protestations of love for old Magnesia. Best that can be said for the production is that spectators get a chance to see Norma Terris (Show Boat) with her hair down...
...Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; in the ape-house of the Bronx Zoo; in the White House executive offices; in the Roxy Theatre, Manhattan and in Paramount Theatre, Paris; in Lakeside Press, Chicago (where TIME is printed); in the Secretariat, Delhi, India; in Diner No. 1418 on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe; in the San Francisco Stock Exchange; in the London County Council Hall; in Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich.; and in many another structure, Carrier Engineering Corp. has installed equipment to condition...