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...lore;-another manifestation of his innate scholarliness. Today he is an authority on the history and habits of the Oklahoma Indian. For a wife he picked Mary Alice Hearrell, half-white, half-indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name for him is "Big Chief." They have four sons and a daughter. "Now the Negroes, the Indians and the poor white trash of Oklahoma have a Governor," exclaimed "Alfalfa Bill" upon his election, and the 172,198 Negroes and 92,725 Indians of Oklahoma knew he meant...
...sold his Tishomingo farm, paid his debts, mustered together about 40 colonists including his own entire family and in 1924 led the way to Bolivia. The land was poor. The natives were unfriendly. Nostalgia plagued all. Within a short time every colonist except Bill Murray and his half-Indian squaw had returned despondently to the U. S. They alone stuck it out for five wretched years, fighting insect pests, drought, shifty Bolivian officials. Finally in 1929 Bill returned to the U. S. practically penniless to complete the most remarkable political career in Oklahoma's history...
...tribal robes. But all Indians are taciturn. Last summer Henrietta Schmer-ler, 23, Columbia University graduate student in ethnology who had gone West to study red men in situ, was found mangled and dead in a ravine on the White River (Ariz.) Indian Reservation (TIME, Aug. 3). Clad in squaw's dress and beads, she had set out a few days earlier for a dance at Fort Apache. It was known that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning...
...Squaw Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cecil Blount De Mille is the most veteran of Hollywood directors and The Squaw Man is his favorite picture. He made it first in 1913. eight years after William Faversham and William S. Hart played it on the stage, with Dustin Farnum in the hero's role. Four years later De Mille coaxed Elliot Dexter and Jack Holt through its sequences of sacrifice and agony. His feeling for his reiterative classic has now come to resemble that of an after-dinner orator for his favorite anecdote. Adroit, devoted and familiar, he squeezes its antique...
This time Warner Baxter is the hero, Lupe Velez the svelte squaw who consoles him on the Arizona prairies. A scion of British aristocracy, he has left England after appropriating the disgrace of an embezzlement committed by a cousin and after saying farewell to the cousin's wife, with whom he is in love. When the cousin's wife, finally a widow, goes to Arizona, the picture has a halfway happy ending because the squaw, having contracted the habit of self-sacrifice, kills herself...