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...present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains the girl and the whole thing ends in death & destruction. The girl is Nancy Carroll, round-faced, red-headed little film actress. Miss Carroll has had far more credible roles written for her back in Hollywood...
...permanently arched tail is the result of an operation and an excruciatingly painful setting process. A veterinarian cuts and breaks the horse's tail much as an unskilled woodsman might hack and push down a sapling. Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base. Then the tail is doubled back, tightly bandaged, supported by an iron "bustle." Three weeks are usually required for the tail to heal and set. Thrown into a sweating frenzy by this prolonged torture, horses often lose more than...
...lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever seen. Having burnt them all, he noticed a woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
...film business in 1929, spent a year travelling around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when...