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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practiced principally by Midwestern Indians, who have time and space to train their dogs. More interesting to breeders than last week's races is the National Coursing meet run semiannually at Abilene, Kans. for the purpose of testing speed and stamina. Short-lived, delicate, savage as wolves, greyhounds wear muzzles when they run to prevent them from biting each other to death. Extracting the live hare, traditional coursing quarry, does not decrease the cruelty of the sport. Greyhounds are taught to pursue mechanical rabbits by developing a thirst for the blood of real ones...
East of the Rockies live 26,000,000 families. To one in every six of those households this week (Feb. 24) goes a new Sunday newspaper magazine section called This Week. Twenty-one newspapers, ranged alphabetically from the Atlanta Journal to the Washington Star, geographically from the Boston Herald to the Dallas News, will carry the new supplement in place of their old home-made magazine sections...
...Right to Live (Warner). When a new actress arrives at a studio, the customary procedure is to put her in a succession of roles as dissimilar as possible, in order to find out in which category she fits best. Having "discovered" pretty Josephine Hutchinson in Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, where she had been functioning for eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem...
...decrepit old London house live Julian, a brilliant young musician, his sinister old mother, and Something Else, that is kept shut in the attic. Julian plays the piano in the orchestra of a third-rate musical show, whose pretty leading lady is his fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life...
THINGS TO LIVE FOR-Francis Stuart- Macmillan ($2.50). Disconnected chapters from the life of the mystical young Irish author of Pigeon Irish, The Coloured Dome...