Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trail Riders of the Rockies," and will be illustrated with the films made under his guidance last summer. Hand-colored slides will show the beautiful coloring of the Rocky Mountain scenery, and his motion pictures will give a glimpse of life in the lonely regions of the Northwest...
...before a great assemblage. He played in Providence, in Boston, in 'Manhattan, in Buffalo and Rochester. He went North to Canada, stopped in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. Next week, he is scheduled to fill another engagement in Manhattan, then he returns to the Middle West. He will tour the Northwest, play in California in March, in Honolulu in April, in Australia in May and June...
...happened that a brigade under Brigadier General Chang Chih-kiang marched to Kalgan, about 100 miles northwest of Peking, to replace the forces of a local Tuchun (military governor) who had been ousted. The troops rounded up a revolting brigade which had been celebrating by pillaging and plundering the populace...
...scene is laid in the Canadian Northwest and the action, which "promises to be fast and furious", deals with the adventures of one Pierre of the Woods, who is a free trader struggling against the competition of the Hudson Bay Company. A notable character in the play is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who, although not speaking a word, is the centre of the plot and directs the course of the entire play. In the character of Secret W. Service, the anaemic poet of the northland, is offered an opportunity for rich satire upon literature dealing with...
...first stop of the Princeton Triangle Club's Christmas tour, during which the Club will present its new musical comedy. "The Scarlet Coat." The Boston performance will be at the Opera House on Saturday, Decmber 20, at 8.15 o'clock. The scene is laid in the Canadian Northwest--and "the action promises to be fast and furious...