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Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld a vast mottled cloud moving northwest. Natives of the Sierra Nevada foothills, remembering similar phenomena in 1926, 1919 and 1913, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work. They knew that these butterflies live off wild lilacs and other wild plants, do not harm domestic crops...
...soon familiarized. On the current special list are also Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass, his operas Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman; George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody; Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and Metropolis; seven songs sung by Sir Harry Lauder. who will sing no song previously broadcast...
...sister Cornelia is coming down from Hollywood to spend the weekend. Most important for Joe is a call from Monica, his secretary and truelove, that she is bringing out the McKelveys that afternoon. Maybe Joe will be able to sell McKelvey that plot of land on the canyon's top. If he cannot, he is bankrupt, ruined...
Cornelia, almost suicidal with grief at the loss of her only child, arrives hoping to find some solace in her brother's family. But Ethel and her children are worse than she had dreamed. Monica comes with the McKelveys who are just about to climb the canyon and look at the land, when solicitous Ethel insists on their having tea instead. Jed and Babby come late. Jed learns from Hertha, to his horror, that she is pregnant with a child of his. Dinner is served, and a long time...
...juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...