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...farm. At Pine Bluff, Ark. a State judge, presented with 500 foreclosure petitions, intoned: "The case against the debtor will be continued for the term. I'm not going to foreclose on any farm where the people . . . have any chance of pulling through." A judge at Magnolia, Miss, likewise declined to force farms to sale; he said it was like "giving away property...
Helen-Morgan in the full flush of her personality is there to sing "Bill," and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." There is Norma Terriss as Magnolia. There is the unforgettable undertone of "Ol' Man River...
Pure Oil. Shell, Consolidated, Texas and Gulf. White Eagle and Magnolia, subsidiaries of Socony-Vacuum, fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide...
...London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering hands and hangdog look...
During the War everybody has his troubles, great & small, except Mr. Winburg the tailor, who makes a fortune selling shoddy raincoats. It is his daughter Bella, in whose bath salts are all the perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...