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Desert Expert Debuts in Behind That Curtain at Apollo
July 19 1629 report notes Lance Baxter the desert expert guiding Death Valley backdrop for Irving Cummings film Behind That Curtain at the Apollo. Cast includes forty Arabs fifty five horses nine camels and a caravan of eighty three. Other theaters show Drag The Bridge to San Luis Rey Noahs Ark Hole in the Wall Rainbow Man. Vancouver recruit W Blatter aged 21 killed leaping from airplane parachute failed rescue in Columbia River.
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Peshawar
India
Renness
Hollywood
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Sudan
Authen
Indiana
William Boyd
Charlie Davis
the Circle
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W. Blatter
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