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...when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born to him the Legislature passed a special act naming her Mary Senate. Convivial among friends, the temporary head of the Post Office Department likes poker, horse...
...White Sister (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a talkie production of the picture which with Lillian Gish and Ronald Cowman in the important parts was vastly successful in 1923. Now-partly because Helen Hayes has the Gish role, partly because the action has been localized at the Italian front in the War-it gives the impression of being a minor-league Farewell to Arms. Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) is the daughter of an elderly Prince (Lewis Stone) who has made arrangements for her to marry a dull young man. Instead of complying, she hobnobs with a young aviator named Giovanni (Clark...
...ingredients-the chase on horseback, pearl-handled revolvers, the kidnaped girl, the cattle-stealer. It lacks continuity but is worth the while of anyone who regrets that picture companies have turned from the original sources of their inspiration. Best part: Myrna Loy as the jealous wife of an amorous cowman...
...last fortnight a run began on the First National Bank, with deposits of $24,000,000. Calmly, bank officials ordered an orchestra to play in the lobby, had sandwiches served. Armored cars from the Dallas Federal Reserve bank delivered $5,000,000 in currency. W. T. Waggoner, oldtime Texas cowman and oil millionaire, told the crowd his millions were behind the bank; the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas arrived, announced all the resources of the Federal Reserve were behind the bank. Postal savings officials, to whom panicky depositors had brought withdrawn funds, put some...
Author H. W. Freeman, 31, is an Oxford man, but worked on the land for two years after "going down." Says he: "I do not claim any further knowledge of farming than that of a rough general farm hand (i. e., neither cowman nor horseman)." His first book, best-seller Joseph and His Brethren, took five months to write. Down in the Valley was written in Italy last winter...