Word: zane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that astute big game fisherman, Novelist Zane Grey, traveled from the Pacific coast, where taking big tuna had been studied and solved, to East Jordon Bay, Nova Scotia. There he tied into and landed a 758-lb. "horse mackerel" that set a world's record and started a new fashion in Atlantic game-fishing. Last week, after many cruises and much patient observation, a slim, 22-year-old college boy duplicated Fisherman Grey's feat and came within 93 pounds of the present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed...
...solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant), has to murder the villain (Louis Calhern) by hitting...
...WOMAN ACCUSED-Long & Smith ($1.50). Collaborated mystery tale, a chapter each written by Vicki Baum, Gertrude Atherton, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey...
...enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson Page, Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Stewart Edward White, Willa Cather, Harry Leon Wilson, Zane Grey...
...danger of writing about the Old West is that the author is likely to sound like Zane Grey. Be it noted that Playwright Dan Totheroh (Wild Birds} falls into no such error. And his heroine, Fay Pauline Lord, making her first Broadway appearance since Strange Interlude, helps make this piece a subtle diversion in mood rather than one of spurious heroics...