Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average U. S. citizen, the wild boar is an exotic hog who lives in the Indian marshes and whose life is made miserable by handsome Bengal Lancers pursuing him with spears. This month in the rugged Great Smoky Mountains of southeastern Tennessee in Cherokee National Forest, a few U. S. sportsmen will have a chance to gain closer acquaintance with the animal...
Combining in fresh and spontaneous form the kinetic appeal of Lives of a Bengal Lancer with the patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz...
...Bengal Tiger (Warner) injects into circus formula No. 1-about the lion tamer (Barton MacLane), the lion tamer's wife (June Travis) and the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (Warren Hull)-one new and valuable factor. Satan, meanest tiger in captivity, chews off the lion tamer's right leg at the picture's start, obligingly devours what remains of him at the finish. Between times he prowls down a village street, goes on a rampage in a butcher shop, makes kindling out of innumerable kitchen chairs, kills a substitute keeper, growling the while...
...role of Satan in Bengal Tiger was largely performed by a tiger actually named Satan and actually reputed to be the meanest in captivity. For some dangerous sequences Barton MacLane had a double; for others Satan did. Satan's double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real...
...column after last weekend's disastrous trip to Princeton, the Varsity tennis team will journey to Columbia tomorrow for a match with the supposedly weak New York netmen. The presence of both Jim Thackers, at number one, and Gordie Robertson at number 5, unable to participate in the Bengal match due to divisional, should boost the team considerably...