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...MYSTERY OF THE BURIED CROSSES- Hamlin Garland-Dutton...
Corn-fed young Lochinvar of Midwest American writing in 1890 was Hamlin Garland. With sturdy grass-root realism his A Son of the Middle Border (1917) echoed the dissatisfaction of Populist farmers with Eastern banks and business, again surprised seaboard intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan. But Populism was already dead and Garland was left like last year's scarecrow among the corn shocks. With the passing of the middle border he sought a substitute in the borderland of the spirits and its terrestrial outpost in Southern California. From there he still issues books...
...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...
...honors, in the current cinemas at the University. Besides the Mountie thriller, "Heart of the North," in which little Janet Chapman, as a precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than Judy or the other people who hang around waiting...
Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits...