Word: homespuns
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...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
...which characters in their final agony rise as sturdily as opera singers to express their wrath, their views of the world and their lost hopes in prose poetry that owes a good deal to Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce. There is even a scene showing Calvin Coolidge telling homespun jokes in the State House...
...with the rustic humors of the play (and with the Mercury Theatre's economical practice), the stage setting is built of unfinished boards against a backdrop of homespun. Without any intermission, the action overflows between three small inner stages and out into the audience on the forestage. The Shoemakers' Holiday looks and sounds like spontaneous revelry, but it represents the hard work of a talented new group whose ambitions are neither political nor esthetic but, in the word's best sense, theatrical...
...Deal Washington few partnerships have been so enduring as that between Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, and Edward Asbury O'Neal III, president of the Farm Bureau Federation. Homespun Henry Wallace and the tall, grey, calloused Alabama cotton grower were bound together not only by common interest, but power. As head of a farm organization whose 408,000 members in 40 States are a more united force than the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected...
...billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after 1929-he is a low-rate, big-production man who has boosted his system's domestic sales to the highest average in the country (1,000 k.w.h. per domestic consumer per year). By business standards...