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...Frazier '27 as Dolores Casanova, the Spanish vampire , and R. W. Grossman 1G.B. as Jimmy Walker, Rockwell's valet, the following personnel is announced: "Pa" Ogden A. A. Laun '27 Tom Mixer E. F. Gamache'27 Bull Montana R. W. Ayer 3E.S. Zane Gray C. A. Allen'28 Ollie Curwood J. A. Hutchinson...
...dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face and flitted through the forests as an angel of warning to settlers and of destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk...
...list is an excellent commentary on culture under a democracy and, as such, is a subject neither for exultation nor for despair. If Zane Gray and Oliver Curwood seem complacent and unaesthetic to the intelligentsia, they are, nevertheless, the first choice of a complacent and unaesthetic mobocracy. If in this country, unlike Russia, there is no Tchaikowsky, neither are there downtrodden serfs. The peaks of achievement have been sacrificed for the development of the average. "The greatest good of the greatest number" is a theory that makes for social justice but hardly for the greatest...
...divorced and wanting Jack's legal advice, accompanied by several involved plots. When the plots are all disentangled the band strikes up The Star Spangled Banner and everybody agrees that America is God's Only-Country. Sweet vanilla ice-cream for the unsophisticated! THE ALASKAN-James Oliver Curwood-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Men are Men in Alaska and Women are Women. And when a Man meets A Woman, up in those Big Open Spaces where the Eskimo dogs chase the mackinaws around and around the aurora borealis, something Big and Virile and Gripping is bound to happen. It does. Scads...
...Hearst headlines escapes the insistent satire of Lampy's humorists. From the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the latest novelist they have their pet attainments pricked. Galsworthy, Roche, King, Curwood, Rhinehart, Chambers and Ade--not to mention the artists Flagg, Benda and McCutcheon--all may see themselves as plenty of others see them, on receipt of twenty-five cents by the Lampoon circulation department...