Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea behind Night Over Taos is that the course of youth and growth should not be checked by age and tradition. The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest. Old Pablo Montoya (J. Edward Bromberg) has resolved to resist the Gringo invasion to the last ditch, to protect his lands and the imperious institutions in which he believes. As a result of his convictions, he kills one son for treating with the enemy, almost kills another who is in love with the girl whom Pablo has decided to take...
...bursts the rampant spirit of twentieth century gaiety in the form of a renegade relative of the Tweedles, Worthington Smythe. He appears on the morning of the funeral of a great aunt, who has bequeathed him $1000,000, highly intoxicated, and in a crumpled dress-suit. To save this youth from the wrath of his aunts, the family lawyer, Appleway, of "Appleway, Appleway, and Plunket", uses the providential entrance of Wrigley to acquire a substitute for the disrectable Smythe at the funeral. Three weeks before, Amelia, the youngest of the Tweedles, shockingly sweet and innocent, was stirred by the glimpse...
...American youth has the good fortune not to have its outlook troubled by outworn traditions, or by any imposed development which they resist...
Last week when the twinkling limousine of Dr. Dan drew up at No. 1 he rose from his seat a little slowly and stiffly, for he was 73. Just as the old man alighted a youth of 21 dashed forward, fired one shot...
Quick as a panther, Dr. Dan's chauffeur sprang on the youth, wrenched the pistol from his hand before he could fire a second shot. But crumpled on the pavement in front...