Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ZANDER THE GREAT-Shrewd mixture of comedy and melodrama on an Arizona ranch. Alice Brady cast in the first play worthy of her talents...
ZANDER THE GREAT-Humor and shootin', sisterly love and the other kind on a bootleggers' ranch in Arizona. Alice Brady makes the most of her first adequate rôle in legitimate drama...
...CRIMSON census lately made, summer will scatter the undergraduates far and wide. More than one-half of the college intends to travel. Of this number the percentage going West and the percentage going abroad is very nearly equal. In general, going West has no formidable connotation, but means a ranch or a pack-trip with an unconscious study of the art of Nature; while a trip abroad means steamers and hotels, with a very conscious study...
...librarian, as a reporter. At twentythree, however, she had made her first successful effort as a writer. She sold a story. From then on in the field of journalism and of fiction she has been progressing steadily. For most of the year the Norrises live on a ranch in California. What an amazing pair they must be to be able to exist in the same house! One writer in a family is difficult enough, I hear; but not so with the Norrises. They not only work well in the same house, but they help each other. Apparently their methods...
...course "The Trail of Conflict" does not go back to the West of wild Indians and promiscuous shooting. It is a story told of life on a ranch today. But there is still enough opportunity for bad men it seems, to make that life interesting and not without thrills. Mrs. Loring has made the most of that opportunity, and avoiding the conventionalities of most novels of the West, has told her story originally and with effect. The fact that she considers that if she has told a story well she can let psychology and realism go is not the least...