Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadow of a plot helps to sustain the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foxes" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a mad chase ensues, and up great slops of crusty snow, down mountains perilous with crevices, and over the expansive ranges of the Tyrol the two are tracked by fifty pairs of skis. Rich comedy is afforded by a ludicrous dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...
...that her husband has become involved with a perfume salesgirl, her sage mother advises her to ignore the whole matter (as she did 30 years before) and keep her husband and her home at the cost of her pride. But the gossipy friends push Mary remorselessly along the Reno trail with all its bitterness...
...Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio protesting as unlikely the scene in which Cody and a handful of soldiers broke by volley firing the charge of a far superior force ot mounted Indians...
Wild Bill takes a new trail, following one Lattimer (Charles Bickford) the sinister agent of some grafting Cabinet members who hope to sell the Cheyennes repeating rifles left over from the Civil War. Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally...
...whole, the conditions are not encouraging for a good skiing week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main...