Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swirling snowstorm, a number of cinema folk stepped off a train one day last week in Callander. Ont. to begin location work on a picture involving Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and the five smallest daughters of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. From the Twentieth Century-Fox lot in Hollywood Producer Darryl Zanuck had sent 22 technicians and cameramen, Director Henry King, Actor Jean Hersholt, Actress Dorothy Peterson, Writers Sonya Levien and Charles Blake...
Amusingly Mr. Eager sets these folk down on paper, catches the glamorous artificialities of their small talk...
...story is laid in the Lake St. John region of New Brunswick, Canada, and depicts graphically the rugged French folk and bleak countryside of that region. The mental struggles of the heroine, Marie, in deciding whether to stay in her native country with her own countrymen and her father, or to go to the glamorous States with her lover form one of the main themes of the story...
...follows: Organ Preludes: Prelude in G Minor Bach Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation O Who Like Me Bach On Christmas Night Old English--arranged by Vaughn Williams The Hunter Brahms Scripture Luke II, 1-19 Carol of the Flowers Red God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Old English Bethlehem Glatz Folk Song Hymn by Congregation Pampanites Andalusian Folk Song Salvation Is Created Tschesnokoff Three Kings Cornelius Deck the Halls Old English Organ Postlude: Hallelujah Chorus Handel
...work of T. S. Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their native region. Readers who assume that these intellectuals speak for all Tennessee are in danger of missing some of the most picturesque writing in current U. S. letters. Opposed to them is a younger set of mountain folk who possess much more enthusiasm, much more humor, much less book-learning. One member of this second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another...