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...about 40 miles down the channel to Harberton, where he started a sheep and cattle ranch, young Bridges was able to make out most of what the Yahgan Indians were talking about. But an even bigger challenge confronted him. In rugged, unexplored northeastern Tierra del Fuego lived the fierce Ona tribe. Naked under their calf-length, guanaco-skin capes, the nomadic Ona stood as high as six feet in their fur moccasins, hunted their game (mostly guanaco) with bow & arrow, and spoke a language that sounded like "a man clearing his throat...
Young Bridges learned a little about the Ona from the few tribesmen who came to the ranch for handouts, but he wasn't satisfied. In his 20s, hardened by years of outdoor life, he determined to cross the mountain range into Ona-land. With the help of his brothers and a couple of Indians, he succeeded on his third attempt. After that, with gifts and with demonstrations of his own prowess, he won the suspicious Ona's admiration...
Cinemactress Ona Munson, player of aging hospitable shady ladies ("Belle Watling," "Mother Gin Sling"), was chosen by the Chamber of Commerce as Hollywood's official hostess...
...Shanghai Gesture (Pressburger; United Artists) is a film perversion of Playwright John Colton's flaming melodrama of 16 years ago. Most of its original bawdy plot, language, atmosphere and characterization has been removed. Mother Goddam (Florence Reed in the stage version) is now Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), no longer proprietress of a Chinese bawdy house, but of a gambling casino. As such, she is not sinister but gaudy. So is the pretentious picture...
Engaged. Cinemactress Ona Munson, 33, the Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind: and ex-FHAdministrator Stewart McDonald, sixtyish, now Deputy Federal Loan Administrator; in Hollywood...