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Modern anthropology overlaps a number of sciences-anatomy, pediatrics, sociology, psychology, ethnology, paleontology. Few living men in this vast field have plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian...
...have to walk; for already I did have to carry Junior. And here on one side was an exhibition of fertilizing machines and on the other a cafeteria: in the center a Persian garden. A real Persian garden too! And I was sorely tempted to lie beneath the bough...
...Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...
...newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost the whole of it out-of-doors. It is Lionel Barrymore's best part in years and a valid and vital contribution to current cinema. Some shots: Possums drowsing on a bough, hounds running down a gulley, seen from above; a fox in his den, snapping at the hounds through the narrow opening; the courthouse at Jefferson City...
...Here with a loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...