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...last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...
...plot is an involved attempt to marry a servant to a wealthy old woman. Various subplots and small intrigues are woven in, solely concerned with love or its prevalent imitation. The cast was rather carelessly thrown together with no notable performance offered...
...administration of the criminal law." But police officers, it is submitted, will always be tempted to resort to harsh questioning-not to obtain confessions for use as such in trials, but to get "leads" which will result in unearthing facts from which a chain of competent evidence can be woven...
...great deal of nonsense is written and talked about organization which is only a long and ugly name for common sense and hard work woven together in collective effort. There are two standard works on Organization which have stood the test of time the Proverbs of Solomon and Aesop's Fables. Every human transaction falls within their compass...
...impossibility of the multitude of mysterious and magic occurrences which are continually taking place. Every trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights and woven them together into a fairy story that cannot fall to delight and enchant the youngest and the oldest members of the audience...