Word: electras
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...even count that movie version.") In 1936, he appeared in the role he has enjoyed most, Peer Gynt, in the 5-hour version. He made numerous movies about this time, none worthy of expert. The only American play in which he has appeared was O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1938. He prefers to see American plays done by Americans, because of "a certain vitality they give it." Of the recent American plays he's seen, Mr. Devlin was most impressed with "The Glass Menagerie...
Jackpots. After Spindletop, in the superlatives of the oilfields, came a jillion jackpots-roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. The automobile age created a rising demand, and after the Lucas No. 1, Texas wildcatters never stopped their probing in the earth's baffling substrata. Glenn McCarthy, a man with a lust for money and fame, became one of them...
Perfect Crime. In Electra, Texas, while P. H. Loftin was standing on a street corner someone stole his hat off his head...
...commission goes against us," said Mayor Moore, who is also the city magistrate, "we'll appeal. We'll get an injunction. We'll get everyone in Electra down to the station blowing whistles. We'll get a cowboy singer and have him give them an adenoid solo. We'll put up stoplights at the railroad crossings and make the trains obey them-if they break the law I'll fine...
...week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town in Texas a whistle stop...