Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...product of the bustling, big-town press room, Out Our Way is penned day after day on an isolated ranch near Prescott, Ariz., by a lanky, grey-eyed cattle rancher named James Robert Williams. There, dressed in old blue jeans and riding boots, Jim Williams rides with his ranch hands over 45,000 acres of juniper-dotted Arizona range country, wrangling, bulldogging, branding, rounding up about 600 head of white-faced Hereford cattle...
...California Athletic Commission considers capable of refereeing boxing matches is wiry, 45-year-old Belle Martell. No upstart, Belle Martell has been in the boxing business for ten years-ever since her husband. Art Martell, onetime Australian lightweight champion, hired an old barn near Los Angeles (on the ranch of onetime World's Champion Jim Jeffries), started putting on amateur boxing shows...
From retirement on his isolated ranch in the hills of Southern California, William S. Hart, 69, strong, silent two-gun man of cinema fame, and his Great Dane, Prince Hamlet the Dane II, emerged to charge his neighbor Duncan McDonald, 20, with peppering Hamlet's hide with buckshot...
...Mice and Men" is a Zolaesque ghost of naturalism came back to haunt the screen of the U. T. John Steinbeck's picture of ranch hands struggling against an unnamed force that drives them to destruction is a company little exercise that might have been carved out of the space, gaunt stories of Stephen Crane, or the vast welter of Frank Norris's novels. It has Crane's economy and concentrated power, combined with Norris's careful documentation of detail. It is this detail that makes the film a masterpiece--the whirring belts of farm machinery, dogs hanging around...
Sportsman Charles Stewart Howard rejoiced at the birth at his Ridgewood Ranch at Willits, Calif, of a chestnut colt: first get of Seabiscuit, world's top moneymaker...