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...rising ferocity of Indian resistance was not the only danger. Beyond the Indians to the southwest were the Spanish in New Orleans, the "stopper in the Mississippi bottle," blocking the only cheap export route. Behind the Indians to the northwest were the British, arming the tribes, pre-empting the fur trade, still holding Detroit and the other lake posts they had agreed in the peace treaty to give up. The feeble Continental Congress in Washington was weeks away by hard roads and not much interested in backing up the settlers...
...Gamble), but a man cannot live by bread alone. As an artist, Irwin earnestly and frequently explained to the press, he was hurt by what happened to his scripts after he turned them in. Words were changed. Sometimes whole scenes were struck out by some thick-fingered fur salesman who had never read anything more difficult than a ledger. Sizzling from Hollywood's ignominies (and loaded with Hollywood's gold), Scriptwriter Shaw last year at last devised a stratagem to baffle the barbarians. He wrote a picture and then produced it himself-at a cost of about...
Well, he can have it. For one thing, his script urgently requires the attention of that fur salesman. For another, it tells a story that has been told, and told more excitingly, a hundred times before: the story of the innocent young American girl who goes to wicked old Paris and soon loses her illusions and everything. Jean Seberg as usual (Breathless, Playtime) plays the American in Paris, and as usual she wins the customer's sympathy-she tries so hard...
...play is haunted by the tired ghosts of seasons past. To Love is still another family comedy, the sempiternal soap opera of the theater. This time, the family is British, part tea cozy and part zany. Mama (Claudette Colbert), a one-woman S.P.C.A. who identifies with small fur-bearing animals, has just done an eight-month stretch in jail for blowing up two fur shops with homemade bombs. Daughter is going to have an illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation. Son is a bearded off-beatnik novelist who has brought home...
...million, and is so important to the company that it is run as a completely separate store. On a normal day, up to 100,000 bargain hunters roll through its 16 entrances, and during special sales the number has risen to 175,000. Last week, waiting for a fur sale in which some $5,000 furs went for as little as $1,995, a crush of women boldly unlatched the door chain before opening time, stripped all the furs from the racks in less than ten seconds...