Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yelling like wild...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
...obviously actors; the subtitles are verbose. It suffers also the phrases of incontinuity inevitable in a picture made from a long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss...
Four Feathers (Paramount). Feature pictures of animal life in unfamiliar places have been fairly popular even when there was no story in them. It was natural that some producer should try to combine an authentic panorama of some wild continent with a romance of gallantry, love. Baboons getting away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year...
...Uzcudun style consists of many wild gyrations, of leading with rights. He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches. He was assuring everyone who would listen last week that he would defeat Schmeling with no trouble. Schmeling said he would defeat Uzcudun, intended doing it with his left although he might with his right. Uzcudun's known ability to "take it" (stand punishment), and uncertainty whether Schmeling can "take it" or not, was what made Uzcudun a 7-to-5 favorite in last week...