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Heron, an Excellent Showman, Animal World’s Greatest Lover By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Dec. 3.—The great lover of the animal world, it turns out, is the black-crowned night heron. The only bird that habitually has a “stooge,” the heron employs in courtship an elaborate routine of deception, play-acting and psycholog ical domination, says Dr. G. Kingsley Noble of the Museum of Natural History. A typical heron love affair, Dr. Noble disclosed last night in a lec ture reporting his several years’ studj of animal courtship, goes like this: Soon after birth, herons join ir pairs, without regard to sex; one mem ber of each pair dominates the other demonstrating his superiority bj always holding his head higher thar the "stooge.” In the mating season a malt approaches a female and, taking th( subordinate role, tries to inveigle hei Into marriage by the “henpeck" system. When the female indicates tentative approval, the male, at the psycholog ical moment, reverses the roles and starts dominating—if he doesn't, the female will leave. Then, to demonstrate his prowess as a potential husband, the male heron for days goes through calisthenics, brandishing twigs wit'i his beak—“He never does anything with them—they Just symbolize all the houses he could build,” Dr. Noble explains. Finally, if he has carried the show off property, the female consents to a permanent match. I Dr. Noble reported one ease of a r~' i psychopathic heron. He lost his feather head crest In transit to the Museum, and the females shunned him. He brooded for a while, the doctors related, and, then resorted to exhibi tionism, waving his legs and hissing, even before purely imaginary audi ences. He finally got a wife. Hen Lays Egg on Stage. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 3 OP).— Harvard’s Dramatic Club hopes It’s not an omen, but one of the hens used in a barnyard scene of Its new show, “Straight Scotch,” laid an egg last night during rehearsal. SILVERMAN AND SON ARE FOUND GUILTY Convicted of Conspiring to Evade Arrest, Ending One Phase of Drukman Case. Bj the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 3 —A Supreme Court Jury ended one phase of the long-drawn Drukman case at 1:50 a.m. today with a verdict convicting Max Silverman, long a fugitive, and his son Harold, of conspiring to evade arrest. Max Silverman was sentenced New York crime history, began March 3, 1935, with the finding of Drukman's body in a Brooklyn garage, and since then has been a multiple-trailed story of investigation, charges of bribery, official laxity and police brutality, con victions and, in a few cases, exonera tions. -— ■ ■ • Call Girls “Too Refined.” TAUNTON, England Mrs. Em ma Coates, Britain's oldest woman, who has just celebrated her 107th birthday, says modern girls miss a lot of fun because they're “too refined." "I doubt if they enjoy themselves half as much as I did when I was young.’’ BOY, 12, FINALLY SEES HOT SPRINGS, N. Mex, Dec. 3 <#).—•Twelve-year-old Julian Galindo squinted at a strange new world today and went about translating into sight the things he had known only by touch since birth. Julian was given vision for the first time when surgeons removed cataracts from both eyes. •'It's wonderful,” he shouted when the bandages were removed yesterday. 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