Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Along the road [Carmel-San Simeon highway, opened late last month-TIME, July 5] are the mouths of many lonely and inaccessible cañons which creep away up into the Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this...
King Solomon's Mines is as rich in scenery as it is in make-believe. The principals are trapped in a sandstorm, in a burning thatched village, in a gurgling underground crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water...
...Mountain Music (Paramount). Hillbilly musical with Bob Burns and Martha Raye...
...typical smaller summer theatre is lodged in a barn on a hill outside Peterborough, N. H. The Peterborough Players opened typically this week with The Guardsman. The audience, summer people from Dublin and Antrim plus a few wandering Bostonians, was scarcely more anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth...
...Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is caused by a microscopic speck which may be an especially tiny bacterium or an especially big virus. Bacteriologists cannot decide which. It is transmitted to man by a tick called Dermacentor andersoni, which in an unknown manner migrated and adapted itself to the greenery of the Appalachian foothills...