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...meat to them. Skins could be sold to white trophy hunters, and tribal Africans pay high prices for elephants' sexual organs for use in fertility rites. Matta had only nine men to protect an area twice the size of Long Island. He begged the chiefs to restrain the poachers. That failing, he appealed to his own French superiors in Abidjan for more money to hire more guards. They refused on political grounds: in modern Africa, the breech-clouted poacher may well be a duly registered voter. Whatever the provocation, the authorities warned, Matta must do nothing to injure...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tines of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tine of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theater...
...Poacher's Daughter (Show Corp. of America), being a rustic Irish comedy, is a pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...
Mankowitz has exercised his self-reserved right so often that today he is less poacher than pro. Son of an East End trader who taught him that "the only good deal is one that shows everyone a profit," Cambridge-educated Wolf Mankowitz has made a good deal indeed for the British theater. He has brought it a bubbling British enthusiasm that pays off at the box office whether his shows are being polished in Director Joan Littlewood's East End Theater Royal or bargaining for big money on the other side of town. Even in the West...