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...last notes of a last Harvard song sweep out over the mass of pelicans, and with Yard cops bating their breaths a herd of students burst down the steps. There are a few cries of "Rinchart", the sound of moving bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...
...economy-minded Senate considered the $571,000,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends...
...wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them but by this time Toomai has found a herd of wild elephants, seen the legendary elephants' dance. When the herd has been captured, Toomai is a hero. For a reward, he is allowed to keep Kala Nag, is made the ward of a famed elephant hunter...
...wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them but by this time Toomai has found a herd of wild elephants, seen the legendary elephants' dance. When the herd has been captured, Toomai is a hero. For a reward, he is allowed to keep Kala Nag, is made the ward of a famed elephant hunter...
...Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The elephant hunt in the picture is a real one; it included a herd of 80, one of the biggest ever captured in Mysore, and one of Mysore's biggest single wild elephants, who does not distinguish himself in the picture. Huge Kala Nag's real name is Iravatha. His specialty is tricks, best of which, stepping over a prostrate child...