Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbits? You don't need dogs for rabbits so we will say that he's after for birds. His dogs are a springer spaniel - all right for ducks and other water fowl - and some sort of a fox hound. Do you shoot foxes for sport in the East? For either birds or rabbits, the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots...
...Down East (Fox), like The Three Musketeers (see above), is an effort to redistill for the sophisticated audiences of modern talking pictures the elixirs which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...
...current version, infinitely more sophisticated, is chiefly noteworthy as an example of directorial tact. Aware that much of the motivation in Way Down East is of the sort which contemporary cinemaddicts have been taught to consider comic, Henry King must frequently have been tempted to burlesque the story rather than risk having audiences discover their own laughs in its sentimental climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm...
...East, unlike other sections of the country, has no football "conference." Nearest approach to such a thing is a group of ten teams linked without formal organization by the fact that each plays at least three of the others: Army, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Yale...
...East's major game last week was Princeton v. Navy. It turned out to be one of the season's most impressive. Beaten only once in three years, equipped currently with a team whose power has sometimes been matched by a willingness to delay displaying it, Princeton scored once in each period against the tight defense that held Notre Dame to two touchdowns a fortnight ago, rolled...