Word: luggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studios, producers were irked by a scarcity of minor players, the lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...
...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...
...SANDHILLS? Antony Marsden?A. & C. Bom ($2). John Creed, perfect English gentleman, calls late at night upon a Mr. Murgatroyd to punch his head for a card game insult. Mr. Murgatroyd drops dead after taking a right to the chin. A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides...