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...Texas, learned to fly in World War I, barnstormed all over the Rio Grande Valley after war's end. While flying in & out of Mexico with oil company payrolls, he heard reports of Mayan treasure in an inaccessible jungle. Long later parachuted into the wilderness, barely managed to hack his Way back (emptyhanded) to civilization...
Green Features whipped through Boston a while hack, and now the Maro Connelly revival is drawing them to the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street west of Broadway. The Hall Johnson chair helps out in the striking dramatization of the Roark Bradford approach...
...party did not even try to rent the Garden.) The faithful in 1950 wouldn't have filled one bleacher section in the Garden. The press was barred, and even the location of convention headquarters was kept secret until meetings were under way. "You know," explained one party hack, "we're not exactly popular...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
James T. Farrell, final speaker on the program, said that writing today is a respectable trade, and that American novelists have no need to apologize. Once a hotbed of commercialism and infantilism in public taste, America is still a "hack-writers' paradise" in some respects, but the serious authors have had financial success, indicating that a sizable part of the reading public is reasonably intelligent...