Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...
...opening this week the distinguished visitors' attention will be especially directed to a baby fringe-eared oryx antelope, a matchie tree kangaroo which looks like a small brown bear and a Hycean tiger from Turkestan...
...COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION- George Soule-Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged Author Soule has examined the nature of the beast, pointed out the size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution...
...more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America went to Asia. By the time the picture has run its course, so simple a thing as the coralling...
...wife and child for a summer vacation in Europe. He expects to tour the continent by automobile and promises to be on the lookout for all the outstanding ball-toters that may be lying around loose. He may even pick up some plays that will fool the Princeton Tiger when that dangerous beast invades the Stadium next fall...