Word: selig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arnold Gottlieb, of Brooklyn, New York; James B. McMillen, of McDonald, North Carolina; William T. Miller, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Michael E. Mooney, of Dorchester; Lamar N. Ostrander, of Olympia, Washington; Paul Roberts, of New York; Herbert Robinson, of New York; Selig J. Seligman, of New York; land Daniel F. Sullivan, of Newport; Rhode Island...
...role of Satan in Bengal Tiger was largely performed by a tiger actually named Satan and actually reputed to be the meanest in captivity. For some dangerous sequences Barton MacLane had a double; for others Satan did. Satan's double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real...
...full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes farcical, makes Central Park a thoroughly diverting, wholly unreliable portrait...
...Nazis oppose, the Government of Chancellor Franz von Papen. Last week Hitlerites struck a foul blow. Der Angriff, Hitlerite paper of deformed, bitter little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, published an article to prove that Col. Düsterberg, who frequently has indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff Col. Düsterberg's grandmother was of Jewish descent too, his great-grandfather was administrator of the Jewish culture society in Paderborn in 1824. Immediately followed a despatch from the Jewish Tele graph Agency that Col. Düsterberg had resigned his position with...
...shot in the mouth. Subsequently he took minor roles in minor skirmishes with Chinese, Mexicans, Boers. For a time he served as a U. S. deputy marshal in Colorado. In 1910, when moving pictures were still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned to join Sells-Floto Circus at a salary reputedly $15,000 per week. Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy...