There are moments in
Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then Jack ) Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-1947) exudes a naturalism that the famous Western actors who followed him, most notably John Wayne, strove to emulate.
There are moments in
Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then Jack ) Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-1947) exudes a naturalism that the famous Western actors who followed him, most notably John Wayne, strove to emulate.
When Carey s character Cheyenne Harry is looking confidingly at the camera, his surly almost-smile is millimeter-perfect in its grudgingness and sense of the ironic. His unsteadiness and glazed expression when drunk convey that bizarre mix of hyper-selfawareness and dimmed comprehension everyone knows when they ve had two or three too many. In the rhetoric-heavy era of silent cinema acting, Carey was a marvel of minimalism – unlike William S. Hart, his peer (and fellow New Yorker
Image from Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
This week in history as reported by The Summit County Journal the week of April 16, 1921:
Over 3 feet of snow isolates entire county
Breckenridge, Summit County and the state woke Friday morning to discover that spring had again disappeared and winter returned. The snowstorm began early Thursday night and over 3 feet fell by 4 p.m. Friday.
Street and road traffic were out of the question, and many pedestrians gave up in despair and returned home or remained by their firesides until the storm was over. Dillon received over 4 feet and Montezuma reported over 5 feet.
Communication by telephone, telegraph and train was entirely cut off from the outside world before noon Friday. Summit County was without power or lights until noon, when service was resumed.
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Fredolin Red Hanisch was a 52-year employee making him the longest-serving employee of the theater.
Spokesman
Brendon Duffy says he began working there in 1929 when it was still called the Sherman Theater and over his five-decade career did pretty much everything.
He was kind of a handy guy and was very self-taught and so I think they thought they could put him to work doing different things like he was a stagehand, he did props, he knew enough about electrician work that he did some of that, he hung posters.
Duffy says back in the early days when big stars would come to town Red would enjoy the opportunity to meet them.
Beyer s Byways: Vidal should have more to say, but it does have Wyatt Earp
By John R. Beyer
For the Victorville Daily Press
As I have written in past columns, there are places to which we are destined to travel without ever intending to go there.
One of my more memorable quotes, if I say so myself.
When we travel, there are times we are moving toward our destination when, on the way, another place shows up in front of us that is so intriguing, we must take a brief detour.
These places are often where true adventure awaits.
As a travel writer, I find myself in that realm quite often, and I find it reassuring. Just because I want to end up at one place, doesn’t mean I don’t want to find myself in a totally different place for a spell. That is what makes life exciting.