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...straightforward-not to say, brutally frank-as its title, "The Westerner" sticks up to its neck in the woolly, daredevil days of the frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...
Died. Daniel ("Diamond Dan") O'Rourke, 79, keeper of what was 30 years ago "the biggest and best saloon on the Bowery," manager of Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Birthday. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League, who said: "I'm confident this movement will be successful during my lifetime"; his 85th...
Biggest money winner at last week's opener was plucky little Paul Guyton, in for 20 years for shooting a big fellow who picked on him in a saloon. Guyton, whose 125 pounds had never been astride anything but a motorcycle until last year, won $25 for riding a Brahma steer the length of the arena. In five appearances, Bull-rider Guyton has never been thrown...
...week in Free France, but food rationing has not become universally effective. Alcoholic regulations are effective. The apéritif is outlawed. On three days a week no other spirits are served. France, whose world reputation for temperance was belied by her world's record of one saloon for every 80 men, women and children, is a much soberer country today...