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Smoky (Fox Film), based on the best-selling romance by Cowboy Artist-Author Will James, traces a mustang's career in sentimental detail. In this unusual Western, the horse is the protagonist, the cowboy deus ex machina to save him from the glue-factory in the end. Even the love interest centres on Smoky. Critical of the first sketches the rancher's arty daughter makes of his horse, the cowboy finally succumbs when she produces a good statue...
...drawling commentary by Will James, interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into...
King Ranch. Congressman Kleberg's election delighted Democrats of the 15th district no less than it did those of his own 14th. It meant the Speakership for their "Mustang Jack" Garner. Besides, the Kleberg family are part owners of the immense King Ranch, largest single one in the U. S., which sprawls across 1,250,000 acres of Southeastern Texas and overflows into the Garner district. In 1925 Henrietta King, widow of Richard King, founder of this rural empire, died at the age of 90, tied her $25,000,000 property up in trust for ten years. A King...
...difference between Penn State's mustang speed and Syracuse's buffalo line was only a touchdown and a pair of safeties. Penn State 6, Syracuse...
...upsetting effect of a bad thunderstorm, stampeded a bunch of horses on their way to the corral. There followed a thundering herd effect which would have gladdened any cinemactor's heart. The lightning flashed. The thunder banged. The cowboys whooped. The horses, led by a black mustang stallion, galloped. Gumbo mud spattered. Arrived at the camp the horses, thoroughly out of control, splashed through the shallow water-pool, soon left wet and weary horse catchers far behind. "It's a part of the game," said Catcher Skelton...