Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel A. Derieux, Wild Bill McCorkle. Editor Merle Crowell. American...
...Wild Birds. Another page torn from the hungry innocent existence of the prairies is this play, which won some sort of prize at the University of California. An orphan girl and a runaway boy on a farm fall rather inevitably into each other's arms. They attempt to run away from the brutal farmer, are hauled back. The girl finds herself about to have a child. The farmer beats the boy to death with a bull whip. The girl jumps into a well...
...muffled tom-toms, out of Africa. It hid with the Norway rats in the hold, of pitching slave-ships; it crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark...
Died. McKinley, Arabian horse on which Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") galloped into the ring at his famed Wild West Shows; in Denver, Col. Since 1917, when his master died, he has kept to his stall. Last November, he emerged to lead the Armistice Day parade-his last public appearance...
...WILD DUCK−Mr. Ibsen receives what he deserves−a good performance...