Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge School of the Drama announced yesterday that it will present as its first production of the school year 1930-1931 the premier performance of "Honey Holler", the first play of R. K. Mackaye '23. Since his graduation, Mackaye has engaged in journalism, professional acting, and stage management...
...play was accepted for production by the Provincetown Playhouse in New York this year and was abandoned only when the organization disbanded its production activities. James Light, Director of the Provincetown Playhouse, wrote of the play: 'Honey Holler' is a play of high quality. The characters and their speech constitute a new field in American folk lore. Compared with O'Neill's and Glasspell's beginning its author, Keith Mackaye, is already in the middle of a development and the quality of this play, I am sure, will produce very great works...
Last week at Honey Grove, 50 mi. east of Sherman, mobbers helped a posse find and shoot to death one George Johnson. 30, Negro murderer of a white man, to whom he had owed money. The mobbers dragged Johnson's body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...
Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...
...brilliantly even when they have given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets about fascinating the respectable son of a rich farming family. From the Chicago hotel where their meeting takes place, the story moves west to a shadowy, oldfashioned mansion...