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...Passed a bill appropriating $2,000,000 for the protection of forest lands, reforestation and extension of national forests...
Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...
...hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest, the wayside inns far better than his own front parlor...
...made an occasion for a wild nationalist outbreak. The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin. It was stored in the room at the Anhalter railway station reserved for visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced...
...King of Wild Horses. A moderately worthy departure from the usual run of films, being a combination of Black Beauty with the forest fire of The Storm and with the waterfall scenes in any Universal picture. The scenes of the untamable equine lord of the plains plunging to rescue from the flood the man who saved him from the fire have been cleverly faked almost to the point of being Art. The horse who plays the leading role is so real that he makes the persons in the human story look like cinema actors...