Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

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l6o CELLULOID day, although the service may be held in a gambling hall. By popular accord, Yancey is asked to conduct the gathering. Gun on each thigh, he asks for peace and brotherhood from the citizens of Osage. He has a confession to make himself — he is sorry to have withheld the name of the murderer, but — a gun-shot rings out from the back of the tent. Women are screaming, and a rush is made for the exits. But quick as lightning Yancey has replied from both guns, and the outlaw is carried from the tent. A year creeps by, and a daughter is born to the Cravats. The newspaper is now a flourishing success and the town has come to accept Yancey's journalistic dictatorship. Houses have grown into two storeys and a real church has sprung up. But banditry is still a thriving livelihood. Despite the fact that he has been warned by Yancey to keep clear of Osage, " The Kid," once a friend of Cravat's in the Cimarron country, rides into town and shoots up the main street. To protect his son, Yancey draws on " The Kid," and a fierce duel takes place, until at last, in the light of the setting sun, Yancey shoots down his friend in a hail of shot. Sometime later, there comes the news that the Government has thrown open the Cherokee Strip for settlement, and lusting for fresh adventure, Yancey begs Sabra to break up home and move on. But Sabra, content with what they have achieved, refuses, and Yancey rides out alone. For five years Sabra controls the paper, steering it on a career of success and profit, but still there comes no news of her husband. Sabra has become the main spirit of respectability in Osage society, and she is on