Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines in Arizona. This was merely because he often disappeared into the desert for months at a time. It was said he had a connection with a company that made super-chargers. This was because he drove two Lincolns and a geared- up Ford. Unconcerned with antecedents, Hollywood asked no questions. Montague played golf...
...this church shall not ordinarily be permitted to have more than one husband or wife at the same time?' " Divorced New York Episcopalians, it soon appeared, would find it hard to remarry even if the amendment were adopted. Grumped their Bishop William T. Manning, vacationing in Mt. Desert, Me.: "It is the report of a very one-sided committee. . . . Those who are married by the Church are still requited to say 'till death us do part...
...year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good to be a white god. Before they attain the mines he is required to demonstrate white magic in the form of an opportunity...
...Cover the War (Universal). Newsreel cameramen abducted by rebellious desert chieftains in Arabia...
...small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away on an Army mission and dutifully disappear in the desert...