Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites him to make his gang a regiment...
...three or four years now there has been a perpetual caravan of actors trekking the plains from Broadway to Hollywood, exchanging all the comforts of civilized drama for the barbarous and uncertain hazards of the Sierra cinema. Concerning these new pictures a theory has been noised about, which makes their aim not so much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam...
...Sierra; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer). A volcanic opera diva returns to Andalusia from Madrid at the request of her abandoned husband, who wants to tone up their daughter's wedding by the appearance of both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...
Principal cockfighting centres in the U. S. are at Stevenson and Uniontown. Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; Little Rock; New Orleans; Bartlesville, Okla.; El Paso; Highlandtown, near Baltimore; Memphis; Lexington; the Sierra Game Club in Grass Valley, Calif.; Bismarck, Mo.; Grand Rapids; Newark; Aiken, S. C., where North and South Carolina breeders have been holding interstate mains for two centuries. Because cockfighting, though firmly established and thoroughly organized, needs to be furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount...