Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...godsend to New England. The New England Council, regional business builder, began to advertise the eclipse in magazines and newspapers last February. The Council got out a special eclipse folder. The New England Hotel Association distributed 100,000 copies of a special brochure on the phenomenon. North Conway and Provincetown, Mass.. Wolfeboro, Littleton and Whitefield. N. H. and Fryeburg, Me.?all communities in the path of the totality shadow?have had men & mail calling attention to their excellent locations...
...Boston & Maine Railroad will provide excursions from Boston to North Conway and Fryeburg. The New York, New Haven & Hartford has scheduled excursions from New York and way stations to Fabyan, N. H., and from Boston to Provincetown. The New England Steamship Co. advertised a personally escorted total eclipse Cape Cod tour from Manhattan for $25. Hotels outside the 100-mi, belt of totality organized motorbus services to take guests into the zone...
...About Town (Fox) is shoddy melodrama, with modernistic underacting, about Washington embassies and the U. S. Secret Service. Warner Baxter, a Wartime Secret Service man, has become a gambling big-shot. He meets his best friend's (Conway Tearle's) fiancee (Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then...
...separate camp and will conduct its experiments apart from direct association with any other university, although it is expected that nearly a dozen colleges will set up similar camps in the path of total darkness. The headquarters of Lick Observatory, of Mount Hamilton, California, will be located in Conway, New Hampshire. The period of totality of the eclipse, will be from 98 to 100 seconds, although partial darkness will obscure the entire afternoon...
Awarded. Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, estranged wife of Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher ("Mutt & Jeff"); $5,000 in a damage suit (burned ear) against Charles Jundt ("of the Ritz"), coiffeur; in Manhattan...