Word: zane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Code of the West. Zane Grey is the prominent name they pinned to this production. To tell his story, they hired Owen Moore, Constance Bennett and a forest fire. Twirling this combination on a fairly familiar Western axis, they revealed an hour or so of highly satisfactory amusement. Miss Bennett plays the Broadway cabaret girl transplanted abruptly to the Western hills. Her lipstick and her silks are misunderstood by the conventional natives. But they go to her cowboy's head and he marries her by force. Their stormy honeymoon is completely surrounded by a forest fire through which they...
...Thundering Herd shows buffalos on the plains of the western U. S., hundreds of thousands of buffalos, all thundering. Where white men live on that noise, building fires of buffalo chips to cook buffalo steaks, love lifts its old song. Zane Grey wrote the book. Eulalie Jennings is the hardened wife of the crooked nomad, Noah Beery. Lois Wilson is an unhappy ward. Jack Holt strides about, looks manly...
...list is an excellent commentary on culture under a democracy and, as such, is a subject neither for exultation nor for despair. If Zane Gray and Oliver Curwood seem complacent and unaesthetic to the intelligentsia, they are, nevertheless, the first choice of a complacent and unaesthetic mobocracy. If in this country, unlike Russia, there is no Tchaikowsky, neither are there downtrodden serfs. The peaks of achievement have been sacrificed for the development of the average. "The greatest good of the greatest number" is a theory that makes for social justice but hardly for the greatest...
...Professor and Mrs. C. B. Gulick of the Classics Department: Professor and Mrs. W. R. Arnold, Professor and Mrs. D. G. Lyon, and Professor and Mrs. J. R. Jewett of the Somitic Languages Department; Mr. R. W. Goranson of the Mineralogy Department: and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Zane and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mabady of the Library
...going back and talking to some of the old guards, gathering details and anecdotes from them. That is probably why he has succeeded in creating so admirably the tense atmosphere of the life and actions of the old time lifesaver. There is much in common between Joseph Lincoln and Zane Grey-personally, I mean-their books are little alike. Both are out-of-door men. Both have families in which they are interested and of which they are proud. Both have sons who are determined to follow in their father's footsteps; in fact, young Lincoln is about...