Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whoever it may be mentioned Nelson Eddy's dimples in the rotten review of The Girl of The Golden West (March 21), I have some 500 odd photos of the "Dimpled Nelson Eddy," all minus the dimples! I would appreciate it if your movie critic would send me a "dimpled" picture of Mr. Eddy...
With the memory of Jeanette MacDonald as the delightfully dangerous flirt of "The Firefly" still fresh in the mind, one finds it exceedingly difficult to see here as the gawky, ignorant saloon keeper of "Girl of the Golden West." In spite of her ragged clothes and her western twang (which miraculously disappears now and then), she is as out of place in her crude surroundings as William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good...
WINGED PHARAOH-Joan Grant-Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes...
...years later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabitants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...
Although she was born in Washington, D. C., was educated at the University of Wisconsin, worked on newspapers in the North, blue-eyed, 42-year-old Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is pure Southerner in her literary career. Both her novels (South Moon Under, Golden Apples) and her short stories have dealt with the poor whites who live in the Florida scrub where she and her journalist husband went to live...