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Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...small enough to make the Long story credible, Agua Caliente stewards did not take the matter lightly. They suspended Baron Long, banned his horses at Agua Caliente. Last week, disgusted, he said he would quit racing "forever." Up for sale were the Long racehorses, his Rancho Valle de las Viejas, most pretentious stud farm on the Pacific Coast, valued...
...Grande (Fox). One of the things sound pictures can do most effectively is make portraits of unfamiliar places. In spite of its melodramatic story and the pidgin-English used by the characters, Romance of the Rio Grande is a highly atmospheric account of the routines of a big Mexican rancho, its noises, difficulties, fiestas. Baxter and Moreno, respectively grandson and nephew of the ranch owner quarrel to see who inherits the layout. A new girl named Mona Maris has a shrill voice and wiry body that suit her role as an orphan-pensioner living on the rancho...
...saber-tooth tiger was a common animal in North America during the Pleistocene age, but the genus is now extent. The specimen now in the Museum was found in Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles. The region was formerly a tar pool, but is now an asphalt deposit. Animals became trapped in the tar pool when they came to eat other animals caught...
...Francisco (Dolores Costello). With her proud father she dwells on the sunny, ivy-grown rancho of the Vasquez family, who founded San Francisco. There she might have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord...