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...painter, writer, and authority on the American Indian. George Catlin was a great-great-uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...
Vanishing American. In Albuquerque, Police Chief Pat O'Grady was mortified when a woman whom he held for investi gation as an alien was found to be a Pueblo squaw...
...Clark, of the sudden grrrr, the steady leer, the carousel-horse lope, is cast as a numbers racketeer hiding out from the FBI in Mexico. Pursuit of that fine fiction drives him into some startling new disguises. As a strolling musician he flutes and frolics; as a bucktoothed Indian squaw (see cut) he joins in a happy warble, Count Your Blessings...
Across 6,000 acres 19 deep wells are already flowing with black oil from the newly discovered Tensleep sands; eight more are drilling and another two dozen are waiting their turn with the rotary rigs. At night great gas flares light the skies from Polecat Bench to West Squaw Tit at the Montana end of the field. The Tensleep sands, first proved to be oil-bearing last December, still represent the only major producing field opened...
Hollywood understands these figures, for Hollywood is still primarily interested in grosses. So is De Mille. That's why he went into the business and made his first picture (The Squaw Man) in 1913. A frustrated actor, son of successful and knowing show folk, he had already had his artistic wings clipped-by David Belasco, who purchased and took credit for a play (The Return of Peter Grimm) which De Mille wrote...