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Supposedly "starring" Maria Montez in a unique but hardly revolutionary role an her own twin sister, Hollywood seems to have burned out another goodly batch technicolor film on the old and oh-so-familiar South Sea Isle set. To be complimentary, honorable mention should be given to the trained monkey and glassy-eyed snake for outstanding performances...
Husky, precise, wisecracking "Ollie" Burke was born on a ranch in Colorado, but his heart was in the Navy from the time he was able to walk. At Annapolis he had no time for athletics or midshipmen's monkey-business. As an officer he became one of the Navy's best at ordnance and gunnery...
Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java geologist had dug up bones of prehistoric men bigger than the largest known apes...
...spent 14 of his 32 years in the Navy on shore-in Navy yards or at the Naval War College. His most important seagoing job had been skipper of the battleship Mississippi. He ran a clean and happy ship-with no monkey-business. He had acquired a solid engineering background and a reputation as a tactician...
...cracked continuously and often brutally about the wound chevron in the last war, and of course every Croix de Guerre was "found in a case of French monkey meat," etc., etc. But we meant no disrespect for the chevron or the Croix, and no editors attempted to interpret our gags for the home folks, who were far more interested in what we did than in what we said or thought...