Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plumes in the Dust (by Sophie Treadwell; Arthur Hopkins, producer). The theatre enjoys better-mannered audiences than baseball, prize fighting and grand opera, but there are occasions when, on the stage, a playwright's line overshoots its dramatic mark and hits the audience on the funnybone. At Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe, one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you Take the Pledge...
...Hull works like a ditchdigger for three acts, manages by artful makeup to achieve a good likeness (see cut, p. 89) to the unhappy genius who wrote, among other things, a poem called The Raven. These commendable efforts go unrewarded, for Plumes in the Dust seems to be concerned with an unpleasant man surrounded by unpleasant people, presented with all the dramatic impact of a glass of sour milk...
...Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly beaten 300,000 Chinese soldiers, had approached within five miles of Peiping, and had, by a ruthless stratagem, made Chinese pride grovel in the thick dust of the little town of Tangku...
...theory that Indians' being made to bite the dust, three in a row, from a range of a mile and a half, is worth salvaging from the fifteen-minute parodies on the nickelodeon days and brought back to feature-length standing, "The Texas Rangers" sets out to curdle the blood in the grand old style. Free from this now-fangled nonsense about Indians' being human beings, at least four of the reels are devoted to shots of the atrocious savages' being shot down in fabulous quantities by plucky little bands of Rangers. Fred MacMurray is the unblenching avenger who fears...
Some of the most spectacular uses of Fairchild cameras are by Fairchild itself. Fairchild Aerial Surveys will take on any job from photographing an industrial plant or large estate to mapping 68,000 sq. mi. of the Southwest's "dust bowl" as it is now doing for the Government. Power companies use the service in planning transmission lines, oil companies in surveying pipe-line right-of-way. Connecticut's highway department Fairchild mapped the whole State for some $20,000. The Connecticut survey still provides Fairchild with revenues through sale of enlargements to towns and individuals. For less...