Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan: "Judge Priest"--Will Rogers, who is rapidly becoming our favorite screen philosopher and pater familias, in a very pleasing story of life in a quiet little Kentucky hamlet where the chief topic of conversation is still the Civil War and those "damned Yankees." Anita Louise will make you wish that Hollywood were a bit more accessible...
...atmosphere and threadbare splendor of a little Kentucky hamlet in the reconstruction days is brought to the screen in the cinema version of Irvin S. Cobb's "Judge Priest." Old men in tattered gray jackets sit whittling on the court-house steps; bearded jaws work the faster at mention of how the Yankees field at Chickamauga; and in the barber shop across the street loafers nudge each other as the girl in crinoline sweeps...
Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 7--Strike up the band down in Smith County, Tennessee. Stand up and cheer, you 283 citizens of the little hamlet of Gordonsville...
...remember those books? In the First Reader you began with "the dog ran," and learned to read words of two and three letters. In the high school, with the Fifth and Sixth Readers, students read Hamlet and Childe Harold. Step by step they mounted the ladder. Each reader was well illustrated and all were equipped with lessons in punctuation, inflection, modulation, and with glossaries and biographical notes...
...congregates; wherever a politician speaks a good campaign manager can drum up an enthusiastic audience. But the newshawks who followed Franklin Roosevelt across the country had never seen such crowds, had never heard such cheers as greeted him. Through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois?at every city and hamlet there were people by the railroad tracks. Uninvited thousands drove hundreds of miles across the blistering plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks, other thousands waited for nothing more than...