Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purporting to be a photographic record of the latest Buck expedition to gather a shipload of creatures for the St. Louis Zoo, Wild Cargo is hardly more than an adroitly staged, carefully written continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which...
...Father Collins standing beside the sheriff smiled through it all. Since Hernando Negroes did not want the bodies buried in their cemetery, the guardsmen, followed by the crowd, took the corpses in their trucks to the poor farm where a hole 7 ft. square had been dug. "Throw 'em in," shouted the crowd. Sheriff Lauderdale warned them: "I'm still in charge, and I'm going to see they are buried right." While the dirt was shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round...
...handbills. A man can give out 1,000 handbills in an hour. Nobody is interested in them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...
Died. Dr. Allen Sinclair Will, 65, founder & director of Rutgers' Department of Journalism, onetime city editor of the Baltimore Sun; of cerebral em- bolism complicated by pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Devil Tiger (Fox) Director Clyde E. Elliott, who filmed Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive, has signed affidavits that every foot of Devil Tiger was filmed in the jungles of India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya. His shot of a lion fighting a tiger (with the comment that lions are "nearly" extinct in Asia) may cause some quarrels. Many an animal expert believes that what lions there are in Asia are on the central plains, not in the southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous...