Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot-walloper, Author Slesinger usually goes at the gist of the matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...Schwartz and Lyricist Howard Dietz at an estimated weekly salary of $1,250 each. Book for the show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were...
...summer of 1933 rich, studious Thomas Sovereign Gates, who gave up a Morgan partnership to become president of the University of Pennsylvania, sent his husky post-débutante daughter to a dude ranch in Wyoming. The rancher said he had orders to see that she got everything she wanted except money. After one year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime...
...dusty yard crawls with lechery. Lov lusts for his runaway Pearl. Ellie May for Lov, the lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother...