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...Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike?a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night...
Carrion-feeding condors, sailing at extraordinary heights above the coast ranges of California, were once a common sight. They have been exterminated partly because of their proclivity for occasionally preying upon livestock, but mostly in the course of man's attempt to rid himself of wolves and foxes. These animals have learned to avoid poisoned meat, but the condors, eaters of carrion, swoop and gobble...
...Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, which was the most hilarious of the 1929-30 Manhattan season. The wisecracks of a cynical pianist suffer slightly in not being rendered by Harry Rosenthal, who created the role. The song...
...scene is Sumatra and the photography by Ernest Schoedsack, who helped to make Chang. Though it is nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory...
...used to greet him: "Howdy, Arty. As one dirt farmer to another, how's crops?" The same spiteful Reed on the stump referred to him as "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory." Two years in the Cabinet, Secretary Hyde helped to pick the Federal Farm Board to rid Florida of the Mediterranean fruit fly, to make himself silly with charges that Soviet Russia, by short sales in Chicago, was deliberately trying to depress U. S. wheat prices. Washington life has not diminished his liking for pie, buttermilk, cigars, chess, fishing in the Ozarks...