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...travelled to his ancestral village in Quon Dong, China to see the home his family fled at the onset of the Japanese invasion during World...
...full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey...
...years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery...
...their "harmonizing," although their song program might be slightly shortened and varied to greater effect; West Avey and Dennis O'Neil were exceedingly funny in a clever "Study in Black Art"; and Ernestine Meyers contributed an exotic dance by way of variety. Mention should also be made of Jue Quon Tai, a young Chinese songsiress, who lent a novel Americanized Oriental touch to the performance with her vivacious singing and dancing...
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