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...ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace; shirts and trousers in tatters. "One man couldn...
...next day we rode a trail which climbs to a gap at the southern end of Langley ridge called Army Pass, and so on to the head of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, which itself finally reaches the San Joaquin valley at Bakersfield. Emerging into the pass, we came out on a broad granite plateau sloping gently west, an abrupt change from the tremendous cliffs skirted by the trail coming up from the east, and soon descended to first water and timber line, following Rock Creek down to 9,500 feet, three miles above its final plunge...
Lyric-writer Bolton, with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern, co-wrote among other musical comedies: Very Good Eddie; Oh, Boy; Oh, Lady, Lady...
...clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as fine as Mr. Berlin's?lacking perhaps the sophistication of George Gershwin, the light-foot fantasy of Jerome Kern, but authentic and interesting nevertheless?must be indeed a genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public, and critics have seldom stopped to ask what relation the words bear to the song, and whether Mr. Berlin's verses...
...City Chap. A good many seasons back John Barrymore was helping people dismiss their troubles in a comedy by Winchell Smith called The Fortune Hunter. Charles Dillingham has resuscitated this hardy veteran, set it to music by Jerome Kern, and given Richard ("Skeet") Gallagher the leading role. It is doubtful if Mr. Gallagher will ever be a Barrymore; yet he serves the purpose well enough. It is doubtful if The City Chap will be a sensation; yet it, too, is sufficient for its purpose...