Word: nag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elephant Boy (London Films) is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants, filmed by famed Director Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Arari). With his grizzled father, his father's elephant Kala Nag, an English white hunter and a group of seasoned Indian mahouts, picayune Toomai goes on a hunt for 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...
Amusingly highlighted by scenes showing Toomai and Kala Nag stealing melons and Toomai making Kala Nag take a bath (see cut), magnificently climaxed by the elephant hunt, superbly photographed throughout, Elephant Boy is the first of three forthcoming Kipling pictures...
Landon may have his picture taken while riding a horse around his back yard; Borah may be snapped cantering through Idaho on a spirited nag; and even Knox may affect jhodpurs to and from the office of the Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
...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 a slaughterhouse he is found again by Clint and shipped back to the range. After the rodeo scenes Smoky loses its legitimate interest as an equine biography. Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time in Arizona cow country, posed...
...Disciples of Christ. James Abram Garfield studied there three years and then, ambitious, went on to Williams College. In 1856 he returned to the little village which (so the story . went) had been chosen by the Disciples of Christ because its doctor had a dilapidated buggy, a bony nag-his poverty suggesting that Hiram was healthy. Young Garfield taught Ancient Languages & Literatures for a year, then (in 1857) became second president of the Institute. One of his students. Lucretia Rudolph, had caught his fancy; he married her in 1858. The Institute's cumbersome name was changed to Hiram College...