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Show Curwood Story at Broadway Today James (IIt t "urwood, word painter of thrilling, hreathh-g. red-litooded tales of the Northwest, or "iUxVn country," ws he refers to It, hris td;ty taVen rank ns lone of the lenilbtg authors In this i-ouu-f tr. CurwOfid holds th proud distinction of hsvitig had limn- t his novels of t he -North woods turned into pholoplHy vr-sl'rs vr-sl'rs than any other Aineriran writer. fv la witliout duubt the great-! li v -itig author of this type of Far North tales. lie has been acclaimed a Stcond Jack IyOndon, Iwcauwe he h;s lived wliat : ht writes. At tt years of. age. Curwotid rail away from honie and was picked up in a row box i pitout fitly miles out on ltke Kne and that was the stnrt of tlie 1 gret adventure for him. When 1H yenrn oll he buried himself In the backwoods ; and trapped during an entire winter t secure funds to go to college the next vrnr. After his college cotirne whs fin- I 'tjrhertrrm'i'iprnT Trrrtriy" year in Tha r-nnr" Han North woods and In the AUfka country beyond the fringe of civilis.- i tion, where he gathered the material for i his now fatuous cjiaracters and store j .Six months of every yrar he still spends up in this playground of the gods. j Among his friends p ihiiiiIh'mi the Indians, In-dians, half-breeds, ihe whites, tlie grlx- lies and the moose, not forgetting that j hardy breed of sledge dog thai he has i m.ide famous in hla bonka. I Though he is the author of many l thrilling tales of adventure, "jod's Coun-i Coun-i try and the J.w." which Is now lining shown at the Hroadway, is said to be at the head of his list. |