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THE MANAGEMENT of this institution
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HIGH GRADE FOX
PELTS ARE FEW
SAYS REPORT
Heavy Demand for Silver Fox Furs—
High Prices Act as a Boom to
Industry
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. (IP)—Prices
and offerings at the recent fur auction
( sales here show plainly that the in
i dustry must turn to fur farming if it
i is to supply the fashion demand at
anything like reasonable prices.
Eleven million muskrat pelts were
used by furriers in the last year of
which over six million came from Lou
isiana alone. But the demand for
southern rats still is insistent with
1 prices ranging from $1.85 to $2.00 a
‘ skin.
Interest also has been acute in op
posum, ermine, fitch, badger and fox.
The old system of trapping which was
the foundation of the Astor and other
fortunes no longer is yielding the for
. mer results. The silver fox produc
i ers have already beaten the other fur
men to scientific raising and market
ing of furbearing animals and it is
noticed that the silver fox offerings at
the present sales have been few and
> of inferior grades. This was due to
the fact that animals are proving more
valuable as breeders than when their
pelts are sold.
Sales of silver fox in London show
ed a top price of about $400 a pelt.
The Lampson sales there showed few
offerings which brought over $200 a
pelt. In recent sales in this country
pelts brought $210 to $300. Many sold
for as low as $15 to $20. This did not
indicate lowering of prices for the
best furs since silver fox scarfs still
are quoted at around $450 and up at
retail. It simply indicates that the
best animals are not being killed for
their skins but are being kept for
breeding purposes. What skins now
are coming into the market of prime
quality are from those animals which
die naturally. It is the standing
prayer of the fox breeder that if a fox
has to die, it do so in November of
December when the fur attains it best
condition.
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Former Seward Men To
Pack Bloaters, Winter
Peterson, Jacobsen and Lundblat, all
well known in Seward, who left this
port some time ago for Cook Inlet,
with the gas boat Orion, are planning
to put up bloaters near Seklovia this
winter, according to recent arrivals
from the district.
A “Babagram,” in the form of a
neat mineature telegram, was re
ceived a few days ago by L. V. Ray,
attorney and mayor of Seward, an
nouncing the arrival of a baby, Mar
ilyn O’Neil, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred M.
O’Neil, both of whom have many
freinds in Seward.
Dave Kuhn, oldtimer from the Fair
banks and Dawson districts, left Se
ward for the South on the Alaska
en route to Wisconsin, where he will
spend the winter with friends
Bill Bryant, sawmill man, was a
week-end business visitor from Days
Harbor.
END FILM FADS,
SAYS BARKER
Reginald Barker, the film director,
does not believe in picture vogues. In
other words when a cinema drama is
a hit, he decries the mad rush on the
part of some producers and directors
to produce one like it.
“Rather, they should say: ‘Lets try
to make one a little better, and a lit
tle different,’ ” declares Mr. Barker,
wrhose latest production under Metro
Louis B. Mayer auspices, “Broken
Barriers,” will open at the Liberty to
night. This is the screen version of
Meredith Nicholson’s famous novel,
adapted for the screen by Sada Cowan
and Howard Higgin.
Barker also is of the opinion that
some producers makei a mistake when
then endeavor to tone down their pic
tures to what they believe is the level
of public taste.
“Just as some writers think they
have to pander to a fancied triteness
I in the public taste, so some producers
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insist that successful pictures must
accord with this idea,” says Mr. Bar
ker. ‘‘Both forget, however, that ed
ucation, as it becomes more wide
spread and general in each succeed
ing generation, is elevating the artis
tic taste of the public—that most of
the people are constantly reaching
for greater culture rather than con
senting to its depression.
“In recent years I admit that there
has been an apparent thirst for the
sensational in both writing and plays.
The excitement of the World War
stimulated this desire for the lurid in
life, but as the influences of that con
flict gradually are dimmed, I believe
the public is returning to a saner and
normal view of what it is the best to
seek.
‘’The public is getting over its recre
atiohal spree and turning to more ar
tistic expressions. And, as the post
war orgy of excitement passes, one
will find that only the better type of
motion pictures will achieve public
favor.”
The cast of “Broken Barriers,” said
to be Mr. Barker's greatest picture up
to this time, consists of James Kirk
wood, Adolphe Menjou, Mae Busch, N.
Shearer, Margaret McWade, George
Fawcett, Robert Agnew, Ruth Stone- ^
house, Robert Fi'azer, Winifred Bry
son, Vera Reynolds, Edythe Chapman
and George Kuwa. Percy Hilburn is
cameraman for Mr. Barker.
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