Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...
...night last January, the Bannister boys and their 15-year-old sister Frances tramped seven miles through the snow-muffled forest to the Pacific Junction cabin of one Phillip Lake who-lived with another man's wife and his two children by her. He had a baby daughter who might be kidnapped and palmed off as Mrs. Bannister's. The boys shot and killed Lake, chased his naked woman into the snow, clubbed her to death, left her 20-month-old son Jackie floundering in the snow beside her, set fire to the cabin. Jackie shortly froze...
...rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth of the vegetation. There are also a skillfully taken shot of mountain snow-scapes and a gentle study of a placid sea quietly dying upon a sunlit beach...
Yesterday, the first '39 boat lined up with Rowe as stroke, Tyson 7, Huenekins 6, Kingman 5, Johnson 4, D. Talbot 3, Dean 2, Burns bow and Snow as cox. However, as the boats have not yet been up to a very high stroke, this seating cannot be considered definitely permanent...
Darkness and Dawn starts off like any "bourgeois" novel of the old pre-War snow-smothered Russia, but it has not gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved...