Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill Between (by Lula Vollmer; produced by Robert Butterfield). In 1923 Lula Vollmer achieved a Broadway hit with her play about mountain folk, Sun-Up. Like Mahomet, Playwright Vollmer has been going to the mountain ever since. But in the past 15 years hillbillies have lost much of their freshness on the stage...
...Hill Between, Playwright Vollmer told of the mountain boy who went to the city, got lost between two worlds. As he puts it: "A man spends his youth dreaming out, and all the rest of his life dreaming back." Lula Vollmer ruined her theme by implying that all folk ways are wholesome, all city ways evil. The square dance in Act II is jolly enough. The gunshot in Act III is a little too jolly...
...grapes, the village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow...
...that the farmers call upon Church Minister Hans Kerrl. At the Church Ministry it was suggested that they try new Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. But even though the East Prussian farmers were thus shunted around they got action last week. The State, unwilling to have such horny-handed folk go back disgruntled to the Hindenburg Country and grumble, abruptly released most of the East Prussian pastors, none a nationally prominent figure in the Church...
...former mounted policeman, Playwright Chalmers for many years did duty on Manhattan's theatre-crammed 45th Street. He loved stage folk, let stars park their cars overtime so long as he got their autographs. Last August, after a hospital maid he had allegedly been friendly with was found dead by a roadside, he was yanked off his glamorous beat...