Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, pension plans and college football, but goes in big for new kinds of auto trailers, mountain cabins, patios. It never touches on controversial matters like politics or labor trouble. It plugs the "how-to-do-it" angle, with simple diagrams showing how to design anything from a homespun lampshade to a barbecue oven. Its unvarying, chirpy cheerfulness grates on Eastern nerves, but is fully justified by results to date. Profits for 1938 will be approximately $25,000 as compared with a loss of $71,822 during Lane's first year...
...First important native play was The Contrast, in which the homespun hero, disdaining fashionable life, states his preference for "Tabitha, her Bible, a cow, and a little peaceable bundling." In an early Negro play, the white author's ear for dialogue produced: "I don't know what ole missee can see in him to make her likee him so much but I must holee my tongue...
Founder, publisher, editor and author of Air Facts is a lean, sandy-haired, 36-year-old Texan called Leighton Collins, who wages his safety crusade with dogged persistence and pointed homespun humor. Graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee), he spent a year at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, then, ten years ago, learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling...
Sing Out the News (by Charles Friedman and Harold J. Rome; produced by Max Gordon in association with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Biggest musical find last season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land...
...lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...