Apes to Philadelphia

For six months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom--the Villa Palatino--on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain the Villa Palatino, it last week consigned part of Senora Abreu's collection to the Philadelphia zoo. The shipment contained a family of Sumatran orangutans, a pair of lion-tailed monkeys, a pair of golden marmosets, a black Celebes ape and an African mandrill said to be the largest in captivity.

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