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...naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman's and Thomas Nuttail's bird handbooks, began writing and illustrating stories...
...Life Histories of Northern Animals and Lives of Game Animals (six volumes). He now murmurs: "Every scientific library in America today points to Seton's Lives as the last word and best authority on the subject." Seton also organized a woodcraft movement for lads under the petticoats of bird-loving Edward Bok's Ladies' Home Journal...
...cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot...
...When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know It (OREB). Band shows lots of promise, particularly in the rhythm section...
Cornell and Princeton will be the teams to beat in Saturday's race, with Yale and Harvard accorded positions high in the running. Bird of Yale and Burwell of Harvard should fight it out for top individual honors...