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...Doan Walson also spoke briefly at the dedication, noting that the date was also the 20th anniversary of WHRB. Others in attendance were President Pusey. Dean Monro, Master Leighton and Master Taylor, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Moses Weinman. Louis' parents, Mrs. Irving Louis Weinman, and friends...
Worse yet is the phony backwoodsiness of much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
...lies dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this and that, as if nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
...Chemical Co. President Leland I. Doan, after telling stockholders that 1955 sales were running 18% ahead of 1954, said: "The outlook has never been better." Railroads were doing well. Union Pacific turned in a seven-month net of $42,388,048, up 20% from the comparable period of last year, and Illinois Central lifted its net a thumping 54% to $14 million. With 1956 auto production just getting under way and heavy construction still booming, steelmakers, already at 91.4% of capacity, wondered how they could fill their fall orders. The magazine Iron Age said that the demand for steel would...