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When food is abundant, "a healthy Eskimo living under primitive conditions will eat 5 to 10 pounds of meat a day." Trappers rely on caribou and dried buffalo meat. Hunters eat seal, walrus and whale meat. The Eskimo "has some carbohydrates for approximately two months in the year, in the form of blueberries. He also relishes the stomach contents of the caribou which, throughout the year, contain carbohydrates. . . . The stomach contents are often eaten with seal oil-a salad! When an Eskimo catches a walrus he immediately opens the stomach and eats all of the clams. . . . The Eskimos...
...Some recent films have been very long and, at the same time, very poor. But Show Boat, which takes nearly two hours to unroll, is well worth the care which Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. bestowed upon it as his final picture before leaving Universal. Handsomely directed by James Whale, magnificently photographed by Leon Shamroy, it brings to the screen what has become a U. S. institution: Edna Ferber's story of 1926 which was the basis of the Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musicomedy of 1927 and an indifferent part-sound film in 1929. The latest cinema version, instead...
Turner, as always, contributes delicately chiseled foregrounds with darkly dramatic backdrops; "Davenport" is typical of this type of work. He shows us another phase, however, in "Fish" and "Death of the Whale"; here he is full of motion and light, with very little emphasis on form...
...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...
...which performed so well against Dartmouth Tuesday. Both third lines are newly formed and may show anything. The defense men on both teams have revealed no great strength or weakness, and the goalies, Stock hausen and Emerson, are quite evenly matched according to the record. It should be a whale of a game...