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...wrath upon him next after the Duke of Windsor. The Duke has not replied, but the Duce last week lashed "the hysterical, hypocritical oratory of certain Anglican pulpits which always see small bits of straw in the eyes of others, while their own eyes are blinded by beams of lumber...
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood, Warner Brothers' production of "God's Country and the Woman" with George Brent in the leading role provides excellent entertainment. It is a story of the North Woods with the major part of the picture taking place in a lumber camp. George Brent plays the part of a worthless brother of a hardworking lumber executive who is stranded in the camp of the brother's chief competitor with no way out but to work. The rival company is controlled by Beverly Roberts, as rugged as the men she employs. Brent, whose entire...
...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
...against Pennsylvania R. R.-by diverting traffic. Aside from the fact that the Mellons are big Pennsy stockholders (young Richard Mellon is a Pennsy director), the Mellons have another good reason to keep on the best terms with as many railroads as possible: they are heavily interested in National Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles. For a strategic reason for the deal, it was necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...