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...story for children and lends the dogs excellent support. That the shabby, endearing little dog named Toots fails to run away with the show and bury it like a bone is due only to the startling magnificence of Pal, who plays Lassie, and to the remarkable abilities of Rudd Weatherwax, who trained and directed...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
MARCHING! MARCHING! - Clara Weatherwax...
Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket and though her name looks too good to be true, she is no made-over Choctaw or Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists...
...fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization he had started went on, through the hell & high water of frame-ups, terrorism, raids, arrests. The big strike came off as planned-but what its outcome will be Author Weatherwax leaves to the realistic reader. Her proletarian agonists are last seen marching bravely down the street to meet the bayonets of the National Guard, not yet forced to believe that bullets will stop their song...