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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Journeyman (adapted by Alfred Hayes and Leon Alexander from the novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage...
...WARS AND MORE TO COME-Herbert L. Matthews - Carrick & Evans ($2.50). Direct, unphilosophical reporting by one of the ablest New York Times correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...
...were forewarned that the question of a united Ireland would prove the stumbling block of the session. "The British Government," purred Prime Minister Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment of real understanding...
...engines at the rate of 50 a day, produce engines up to 1,200 h. p. at factories in Cleveland and La Grange, Ill. Secrets of GM economy are new light alloys and a production schedule using the same parts in engines of the same cylinder size. Suitable for direct drive operations on tractors, pumps, hoists and the like, the engines will also come in "packaged power" units (engine & generator teams) to power theatres, parking lots, small industrial enterprises. All engine units are designed to be connected in tandem when extra power is needed...
...this," he said, "is in direct opposition to the theories of the economic planners who seem willing to sacrifice freedom in order to get security, even though Liberty consists of both...