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...loyally and enthusiastically with me in helping me do for Jesus Christ the best job of which I am capable.... As the main engineer I will say that my hand is once more firmly on the throttle, and despite the latest explosion and other puny efforts to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery, or to put goose grease on the track, the old train, thank God, is still making the grade...
...grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent...
...Monkey Talks. When the play was presented, Jacques Lerner amazed audiences by simulating the monkey who talks. In the film he looks even more beastlike. Yet the love sequence for that very reason seems more unlikely. As a man, he loves the heroine. As a chimpanzee, a disguise assumed to help a friend, he appears in circus sideshows. Under these circumstances it is no easy matter to woo a sensitive girl not wise in anthropology. Yet it is done successfully with melodramatic incident...
...those who find in the world's armor of convention the vulnerable joints through which to prick with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting...
...world, and they are never superior types. Your country has shown both its strength and its wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas...