Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Nelson Stanfield, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon, was seriously injured by an automobile near Huntington, Ore. Witnesses told this story: Mr. Stanneld came upon John Stringer, foreman of a sheep-ranch, who had parked his car near where some one had cut a wire fence. An altercation arose as to who had cut the fence and whether or not it should be closed before Stringer could drive through. Suddenly Stringer climbed into his car, let in the clutch and, spurting, ran Mr. Stanfieid down...
...Dude Ranch (Paramount). Jack Oakie, Eugene Pallette, Stuart Erwin and Mitzi Green have an hour of good fun in a comedy which is partly a satire on westerns, partly a melodrama in its own right. The idea is one of those really comic inspirations whose single disadvantage is that they can never be made quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which...
Circus Suit Sells-Floto Circus and Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey last week faced charges that they have conspired to create a monopoly. Plaintiff in the suit, and asking for $1.040,000 damages, was Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show group. Alleged monopolistic acts: defacement of plaintiff's advertising, spreading of malicious rumors, the enticement of Cinemactor Tom Mix away from Miller Bros, to Sells-Floto at $12,000 per week...
...Curzon, Mary Irene, Baroness Ravensdale, Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosely and Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe to have Joseph Leiter of Chicago ousted as trustee of his father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard-headed American businessman. While my sisters were going to Europe, marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed it!" He proved that he had increased its working capital...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...