Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soloist is Richard Dix; the accompanist, Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...
...chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado...
Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...
...well constructed boy-story. Like red pepper, alle gory should not be sprinkled so thickly that the reader sneezes. Author Masters brings a little too much of the technique of his poetry to novel-writing, but since his poetry is largely grim and biting realism, this treatment does not dam age his work irreparably...
Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin). The hero is building an irrigation dam in Colorado. The villain wants to blow it up. But Rinty, the wonder dog, foxes the dastardly fellow, not only saves the dam by a display of amazing engineering but also ducks all the bullets flying in his direction. In the end Rinty and his bitch (Princess) show in a happy closeup...