Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Pennsylvania--December 29, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Secretary, James C. Fulton '27, 2200 First National Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...Maniu is for Western democracies, the Little Entente, the Balkan Entente and the League of Nations. I am utterly opposed to them...
Harlem on the Prairie (Associated Features) is billed as "the first all-Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer...
...cast kidded this plot the effect would have been tragic, but they play it straight, with frequently hilarious results. In Negro theatres it will be a conventional Western, and it can play the artier white houses as a parody. Best parts of the picture are the tunes, Harlem on the Prairie and Romance in the Rain, written by a white man, Lew Porter. Now and then the harmonizing of The Four Tones in Albuquerque or Jeffries' big baritone going to town with The Old Folks at Home shows how good a colored musical film might...
...another week to run before its champion could be determined, the major conferences were already hailing their heroes. In the Pacific Conference, California was undisputed champion with six victories and one tie (with Washington), assured of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. In the Western Conference (Big Ten), Minnesota was champion with five victories and no ties or defeats but, having been beaten twice by non-conference opponents (Nebraska and Notre Dame) its season's slate was far from clean. In the Big Six, Nebraska just nosed out Oklahoma for top ranking. Two other...