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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caribou, Mountain Goat, Elk, Deer will be hunted by rich men in the U. S., with 45-70 or 30-30 rifles. (In Colton, N. Y., Mrs. Amber Reed took aim at a deer and killed instead Mrs. Fred Myers who was standing nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns & Huntsmen | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...COLTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...foreign minister of Tammany Hall, proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went to Hollywood and lay abed late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foreign Minister | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At the Waldorf | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Sheik. The dreary monotony of male sheiks who gallop along the hot snows of the desert is made agreeably absurd by a reversal of formula. The beautiful Zaida (Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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