The Medicine Story of Little Fox

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Then she grabbed the broom. Her glasses fell to the tip of her long, narrow nose. As she pushed the glasses back up, she spied something moving under the bed.

She wasn't surprised when she struck something, but it wasn't Tom. Instead her cat sprang out from under the bed with an angry howl. Just then Aunt Polly heard footsteps behind her, and she turned to see Tom sneaking out of the closet.

Aunt Polly grabbed the boy by his shirt and gave him a quick shake and a long look. His hands were filthy, and he was grinning from ear to ear. Look at your mouth.

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Why are you so filthy? Go back into the closet and get me my stick. As Aunt Polly raised the stick, Tom shouted, "Look behind you! He's played that trick on me a thousand times.

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People say 'an old fool is the biggest fool,' and they're right. I should know all his tricks by now. She wanted him to become a good man, but he got into too much trouble and skipped a lot of school. Warner refused to lend Davis to Goldwyn, who then offered the role to Miriam Hopkins. As a contract player at Warner Bros.

Wyler encouraged Davis to see Bankhead in the original play, which she did despite major misgivings. She later regretted doing so because after watching Bankhead's performance and reading Hellman's screenplay she felt compelled to create a totally different interpretation of the role, one she didn't feel suited the character. Bankhead had portrayed Regina as a victim forced to fight for her survival due to the contempt with which her brothers treated her, but Davis played her as a cold, conniving, calculating woman wearing a death mask of white powder she insisted makeup artist Perc Westmore create for her.

In her autobiography, A Lonely Life , Davis gave a different version about having to see Bankhead in the play. It was Willie's intention that I give a different interpretation of the part. I insisted that Tallulah had played it the only way it could be played.

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Miss Hellman's Regina was written with such definition that it could only be played one way. But I was always sad that Tallulah couldn't record Regina from the theatre, because she was marvelous. Critics preferred Bankhead's rendition of the role to Davis's, though the supporting cast was highly praised. The character of David Hewitt was not in the original play.

Hellman created him to add a second sympathetic male to stand alongside Horace among all the venomous Hubbard men. Davis and Wyler frequently fought during filming, about everything from her appearance Wyler thought she looked like a Kabuki performer, but Davis wanted to look older than her age as the part was written for a year-old to the set design which Davis thought was far too opulent for a family supposedly struggling financially to her interpretation of the role Wyler wanted a more feminine and sympathetic Regina, akin to Tallulah's interpretation.

Davis had yielded to Wyler's demands during production of The Letter , but this time she held her ground. Not helping the situation was the fact Los Angeles was experiencing its worst heat wave in years, and the temperature on the soundstages regularly rose above degrees. Davis finally walked off the picture. I just didn't want to continue.

It took a little courage, to say the least. Goldwyn had it in his power to sue me for the entire cost of the production. The New York Times reported it was seen by 22, persons on its opening day, setting what was then an all-time attendance mark for a normal opening day at the theatre. It was adapted for the screen in Lillian Hellman's grim and malignant melodrama Wyler, with the aid of Gregg Toland, has used the camera to sweep in the myriad small details of a mauve decadent household and the more indicative facets of the many characters Miss Davis's performance in the role which Talluluh Bankhead played so brassily on the stage is abundant with color and mood Better than that, however, are the other members of the cast.

Charles Dingle as Brother Ben Hubbard, the oldest and sharpest of the rattlesnake clan, is the perfect villain in respectable garb. Carl Benton Reid as Brother Oscar is magnificently dark, sullen and undependable. Patricia Collinge repeats her excellent stage performance In those stories in which he appears, he plays roles that are certainly consistent with the nature of foxes.

No story better illustrates this than "Little Fox and the Corpse. He picked up the smell of a human corpse which he found laid out on a platform in an abandoned village. This corpse could speak, and asked Little Fox what he smelled like. Little Fox replied that he smelled just like beef jerky wrapped in bear fat.

For this he was rewarded with a feast of bear meat and corn. He plied the corpse for food all winter long, and never lacked for the finest cuisine. When the season of want had passed and spring was in the air, Little Fox told the corpse what he really smelled like, and the corpse leapt up from his place of rest and chased after him.

Little Fox jumped into a hole, but the tip of his tail protruded above ground, and the corpse bit it off. A white tailed deer others say an elk came along and offered Little Fox the tip of its tail. This is why deer have short tails and foxes have tails tipped in white.

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Starvation drove Trickster to remake himself into a woman with a vagina of elk liver. All three of his friends tried him out and made him pregnant. In accord with their plan, Trickster went to a prosperous village and courted the son of the chief. Her success led to a time of plenty for "her" and her friends. However, while playing around, Trickster's elk liver fell off, and Little Fox along with the others had to run for his life.

Again, Trickster was looking for a human village in which to lead an easy life. He encountered Little Fox and decided to trick him into helping him.

He said, "Let's play Keen Scenter. Trickster pretended to have picked up a scent, and this made Little Fox redouble his efforts. In the end, Little Fox finally did smell something, and they headed in the direction indicated.

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