Word: elkhound
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...Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than...
...Herbert Hoover entered their Norwegian elkhound "Weegie" in the pet parade of Palo Alto's Spring Festival...
...Washington dog licenses Nos. i and 2 were ceremoniously carried to the White House by Collector of Taxes Chatham Moore Towers, handed to the President. He put No.1 on Pat, his German shepherd. No. 2 on Weegee, his Norwegian elkhound...
...small, saucy two-month-old dog with large brown eyes and tail curled up behind arrived in Manhattan last week on the steamer Stavangerfjord. It was one of Norway's best elkhounds, on its way to Washington to be First Puppy of the Land. The Norwegian Elkhound Association of America, which met the dog at the boat, had purchased it from Dr. Dyrlage T. Hemsen, one of Norway's most famed dog breeders. They planned to present it to President Hoover to take the place of the late German shepherd King Tut (TIME, June 13). Pedigree papers were...