Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alien Corn (By Sidney Howard; Katharine Cornell, producer). Once every year or so comes a fine play like this one to bring dignity and value to the U. S. Theatre. As a rule, Eugene O'Neill writes it. This time it is written by another excellent native stagecraftsman, Sidney Howard...
Conway College lies a few hours west of Chicago. It is a struggling little plantation of bay and laurel choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach...
...beauty and power of Miss Cornell's art have never been set to better advantage. A cast of able actors performs with rare sympathy parts which are written with uniform deftness and inspiration. Alien Corn has to it the good salt taste of Ibsen. In 1925 Playwright Howard got a Pulitzer Prize for his They Knew What They Wanted. He may well get another...
...rich Chicago sugar dealer, North Shore socialite, learned while junketing in South America that he had been indicted by the U. S. Government for controlling, with six others, a chain of alcohol stills. Friends of Mr. Durand laid the charge to overzealousness of Federal sleuths, pointed out that a corn sugar dealer is not responsible for what his clients make out of corn sugar...
From Buenos Aires the Ministry of Agriculture reported that, despite every known manner of fighting locusts, they and drought have destroyed over 25% of Argentina's present corn crop, leaving only 10,625,000 harvestable acres, the smallest crop in years...