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...Round Rock.Texas (pop. 1,400) would probably never have had a jail if Sam Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock...
...robber with the bank swag made a run for it as a confederate yelled: "Go on! Go on! Take to the woods! We'll deal with these fellows!" Alas, poor thief, he was up against no common adversary. He had tangled with none other than Tom Swift...
Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...
...Source). For Sylvia (written in 1876), Delibes used a 16th century story of a Greek shepherd who falls in love with one of Diana's huntresses. She repulses him until the god Eros steps in. In a scene reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline, a robber khan ab ducts Sylvia, but with the help of the gods, and oblations from peasants, shepherds and huntresses the lovers are united. Sadler's Wells Choreographer Frederick Ashton tied music and story together with some first-rate dance inventions. Every leap and step, gracefully tuned in the 19th century romantic mood, seemed...