Word: eldorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Clark Alvord of Eldorado Canyon, Nev., oldtime prospector and desert rat, whose recent death was noted in your issue of Jan. 24 because of the fact that Miss Marion Davies had been made residuary legatee of his estate, was a man of original ideas. When I first met him, some 20 years ago, he tried to sell me a group of undeveloped mining claims he owned. They did not impress me favorably, but to humor him I asked the price. He scratched his head and pondered. "Well," he said finally, "I've held those claims for 20 years...
...novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif., must remain away from centres of population, must write no crime stories. In progress is a novel: Theodora, the All-Gifted...
...prospector and promoter named Gilbert LaBine, who had started a company called Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., was driving his dogsled across the frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly...
...Curie. Born in Versailles 48 years ago, Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish clothes, tells humorous frontier anecdotes with a grave face...
...approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits-if-any, were out their time. Messrs. Polisuk & Harris were out $10.000 apiece...