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...boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful and peaceful island, none of them is in a hurry to leave. Blake strikes up a great friendship with Erik, a simple-hearted Dane who is secretly engaged to the local beauty. Blake, meaning no harm to his friend, spends the night with her, is seen by Erik coming from her room. Erik shoots himself. Blake, horrified, will have nothing more to do with the girl, tells philosophic Dr. Saunders everything, tells...
...winging toward Copenhagen, escorted by four squadrons of Danish Air Force Planes. Ten thousand Danes roared a welcome as he landed at Kastrup, Copenhagen's airport, and was warmly greeted by Crown Prince Frederik, Prince Valdemar (the King of Denmark's uncle) and three of his sons, Prince Erik, Prince Viggo and Prince Axel. Exclaimed Britain's Edward, whose grandmother was Denmark's Alexandria: "Do you know it has been 20 years since I was in Denmark...
...scene is at the midway of the Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator...
...hatched the pretty scheme of crossing simian and human blood, in order to prove the kinship of the two strains by the resulting issue. This is set forth with becoming modesty in the film, but it is evident that the good doctor is bent upon playing pander to Erik. He is an uncommonly good one; for in the hit-and-miss days of 1845, we find him making blood-tests of all prospective victims and fastidiously discarding the unsuitables into the Seine, one by one. The best is none too good for Erik. It comes about that Pierre's beloved...
...Erik Axel Karlfeldt--Swedish writer, winner of Nobel prize in literature...