Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Universal has bought picture rights to a less savage Hollywood satire, Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart...
...bandit alarm spread through the Standard Company's fruit plantations about Logtown. At Moss Farm, U. S. overseers and their assistants gathered to catch a company train down the narrow-gauge to safety. Before they knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
...railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman, telegraphed urgently to the White House from New Orleans. When Secretary Stimson announced withdrawal, Standard officials in New Orleans expressed "profound disappointment," predicted that Nicaraguan bandits would now dare greater depredations...
...moss covered plot is concerned with a newspaper reporter and a policeman, played respectively by Jack Holt and Tom Moore, two old timers who should certainly have known better, and the triangle is completed by Constance Cummings, a comparative newcomer who as yet doesn't seem to have traversed a considerable distance...
ONCE IN A LIFETIME?Extraordinarily good satire on the creatures and characteristics of Hollywood, by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman...