MISSOURI FOXHUNTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

MISSOURI FOXHUNTERS.

MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE. Richard Thorpe is now a motion picture director. Previously he was something of a globe trotter, and in his wanderings over many continents and islands sought the most interesting race. But he had to wait until his filming jobs took him to Missouri to attain his goal. While filming "The Voice of Bugle Ann" on the actual location of MacKinlay Kantor's famous novel of a dog being the motive for a murder, he spoke with many back-country Missouri farmers. "I found the people —yes, and the dogs—just as interesting Kantor's description of them," he says. He had to learn many of their expressions, but once he did that he was able to study them at close range. For instance, I asked a native a certain distance one day. He answered, 'Three looks and half a quarter!' I asked what on earth he meant. 'You go over there as far as you can see from see, look again and do it twice more,' was his answer. His 'half a quarter' meant an eighth of a mile —they never reckon in eighths." The famous speech by Senator Vest in tribute to the dog is reproduced in the film,