Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Myrta Edith Bell Lewis, 62, small, quiet, self-effacing wife of John L. Lewis; in Alexandria, Va. Daughter of a country doctor, she was a schoolteacher when she married the 27-year-old coal miner whose education had ended when he was twelve. As his wife she laid out a program of study for him, encouraged him to read, led him to the classics-subsequently could not keep him from quoting them. Well-informed in politics and labor, she never expressed her opinions in public, took small part in social affairs except as companion to her husband...
James George Patton came up the hard way. He was born in Bazar, Kans. in 1902, the year the Farmers Union (full name: Farmers Educational & Cooperative Union of America) was founded by a liberal, farm-minded printer and ten farmers in a barn near Point, Tex. When his miner-engineer-farmer father died in Colorado, young Jim had to support his mother, three sisters, a wife and child, and a mortgaged farm. He worked his way through college, managed a co-op insurance company, taught school, finally became secretary of the Colorado Farmers Union in 1934. In 1940 he became...
London presents a far happier picture of well-contented men. Officers are inundated with posh invitations in their spare time. Said one, after dining with several titles: "Aren't there any plain people around here?" A most touching letter from a North England elderly widowed miner offered "to share my bed with a Pittsburgh miner." When the London Daily Express printed a box: Take an American Soldier Home to Tea on July 4th, the friendly British queued at headquarters extending invitations, expecting soldiers...
Unfortunately the play is subject to serious criticism on the grounds of unoriginality in both idea and treatment. The story of a philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation...
...Saloonkeeper Marlene is quite at home in her rough-&-tumble role. Strong men quiver as she coaxes them on with: "Anything you can win you can collect." Nobody but Miner Wayne, who has already had the best years of Cherry's life, collects much. He gets her, his appropriated mine, and a beautiful going-over to boot. All ends well in the sturdiest of melodramas...