Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SECONDS WORCESTER Watts, l.w. r.w., Fogg Martin, c. c., Brown Frothingham, r.w. r.w., McDonnell Hallowell, l.d. r.d., Gheterslins McGregor, r.d. l.d., Allen Hale, g. g., McHuck...
JAMES C. RYAN, Cpl. U. S. M. C. C. C. MARTIN...
Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Epics). In a drawing-room full of people in evening clothes a dowager says: "Oh, tell us about your trip." A sandy-haired man starts answering her verbally, shows a cinema as he talks. At intervals the lights in the drawing-room are turned on. The narrative is broken with comments or explanations. Out of this simple framework is projected onto the little screen in the drawing-room?and onto the great screen in the theatres?as exciting a travel picture as ever was made...
...Martin Johnson have made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...
...Martin Johnson, 45, ran away from his home in Independence, Kan., when he was 14. He worked for a while as bellhop in a Chicago hotel, worked his way East and then to Liverpool on a cattle boat. Coming back from England on a U. S. liner as a stowaway the next year, he read in an outdated magazine about the trip around the world in a 40-foot boat that Jack London was planning to take. London's cook had quit. Johnson applied by letter for the job. London wired Johnson: "Can you cook? Salary $25 a month, also...