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Whole modes as well as accessories of life will be shown. The Social Science division has reproduced inhabited sections of Indian villages, a Colonial homestead, a modern city apartment. In the Home & Industrial Arts Group, prefabricated houses, equipped with air conditioners and many another electrical device, may persuade the 20th Century man to change his entire housing scheme. To compete with exhibits from 14 foreign nations, the U. S. Government is spending, through Federal Commissioner Harry S. New, $1,000,000 to show its citizens how they are governed (except Prohibition enforcement...
Henry Agard Wallace got most of his farm relief ideas and a personal antipathy for Herbert Hoover from his father, whom he succeeded as editor of Wallaces' Farmer (now combined with the Iowa Homestead). In looks Son Wallace took more after his grandfather who founded that family publication. Like his father, he talks little and slowly. He has long studied the farm problem at an editorial desk. In 1928 he silently opposed Herbert Hoover; in 1932 he was red-hot for Roosevelt. Iowa Republicans were shocked by his political heresy, set it down to a family grudge dating back...
...nearby river and flood her property. To earn money to fight them in court, she takes to radio and night-club singing, but never forgets her knitting and the folks back home. Faculty she arrives in time to pay the $50,000, and save the old homestead, and, in fact, the whole valley. Farmyard scenes, in which Kate Smith seems as much at home as any other side-show freak would be, show her figure in a most favorable light, and even give her a chance to sing a bit to the horses and cows...
...looks bad for Nell. But virtue triumphs, and villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the farmer's daughter by the staunch courage of noble Jack Dalton, a son of the soil, beneath whose flannel shirt beats an honest heart. The old homestead is saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack clasp each other in a tender embrace, and an audience worn out with hissing the villain and cheering the hero leaves the Peabody Playhouse mulling over the pleasant...
...three acts and on one set, from 1650 to 1933. Act I finds one Daniel Pingree about to be turned out of his rock-ribbed home because he has taken up with a wild young thing who lives in the woods. Act II presents another Daniel. He flees the homestead when the factories press too close, goes to California and makes good...