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...Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality; 1899-Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum, Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When...
...grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
Variety's high box-office scores (for April): 1) Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox); 2) Ziegfeld Follies (M-G-M); 3) The Virginian (Paramount); 4) Saratoga Trunk (Warner); 5) Road to Utopia (Paramount...
...Virginian (Paramount). Everett Cyril Johnson, who claimed to be the Virginian of Owen Wister's novel, died in Calgary, Alberta just before this latest einemadaptation of his exploits was released. It was for him, perhaps, a blessing in disguise...
This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...