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...town of Darwin an Arnhem tribesman named Jacala, serving a jail sentence for spearing a native chieftain, could see from his cell window the neon lights of a movie theater. When he was released, Jacala went back to his tribe, 400 miles away, still wondering about the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Theater Party | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...been captured and his tiny Navy sunk. The Lure, the Tangistani, the Bakhtiaris the Kamseh and the Khashgais had a long score to settle. Reza had stopped their raids and ambushes, imprisoned or killed their chiefs, forced them to live in villages, made them wear hats. Many a tribesman hoped that with a new Shah the good old days of unguarded roads and no punitive expeditions might return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Two Mohammeds | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Warrior. In Hot Springs, S. Dak., a summons to a year's military service was dispatched to Tribesman Hobert Shot-to-Pieces, of Wounded Knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico last week went many a Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Oklahoma Apache tribesman, plus hundreds of white vacationists, to join the 800 Mescaleros in a tribal ceremony. Hosts were Paul and Charles Evans, rich Apaches. The occasion: presentation of their 16-year-old daughters, Rebecca and Carolyn, to Indian society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debut | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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