Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breaking Point. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart is responsible for this example of the cowhide drama. Out of her holster of dramatic tricks she has drawn a sheriff, a self-sacrificing female with crimson propensities, a leading man with amnesia. Her action takes off in the East and lands on a ranch. It is all naively melodramatic, thoroughly preposterous, terribly exciting...
...year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend and a two-gunman. He brings news of a market "north of 36" ?the railroad has come to Abilene? the East is crying for cattle. Wealth lies waiting for any Texan who dares drive a herd some fifteen hundred miles...
...became threatening. Solicitor General Hartridge, from the steps of the jail, ordered the crowd to disperse, declaring that the authorities were determined to protect the prisoner. The crowd grumbled and remained. The police were powerless to disperse it. The crowd appeared ready to rush the jail. Sheriff Dixon, revolver in hand, commanded firemen to turn their hoses into the mob. Half a dozen streams of water shot out. The crowd returned fire with bricks. A stone knocked the pistol from the sheriff's hand...
...after the final curtain. "Planning" is less catchy and not staged as well as most of the numbers. There are sentimental songs that provide harmonies, such as "My Old Man", and "My Red Rose". While they bring applause they are not bright sports in the production. "I'm the Sheriff" is an amusingly staged number, where nimble dancing and grotesque posturing brings comic effects...
Delmonico's Restaurant, Manhattan, established in 1827, long the most famous and fashionable restaurant in the United States, went into the hands of the sheriff for nonpayment of rent...