Word: helvetia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sutter's Gold (Universal) is a picture which cinemaddicts have been anticipating almost since the start of talkies. Blaise Cendrars' novel-about the Swiss immigrant who settled on land grants in California in 1839, founded a private empire called New Helvetia, lost it when nuggets in his millstream started the gold rush and spent his last years begging Congress for restitution-came to the attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked...
...Francisco. His children settled in New York - Suzanne who teaches music, Lucienne who sculpts and paints, Ivan who is an electrical engineer. But the grind for a living again gave Bloch the feeling that he was a man without a country. The music he was writing (America, Helvetia) added little to his name. He was desperate when he relinquished valuable manuscripts for the sake of a ten-year endowment from the rich Stern heirs in California (TIME, March...