Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mackaye calls this new play of his "a comedy of human nature with primitive background," and it is the first of a series of plays by means of which the author intends to continue his efforts to interpret American life in isolated mountain environment. Previously he has written of the native New England mountaineer; now his quest leads him to the Appalachians of Kentucky...
...program of the athletic events includes a baseball series, a tennis tournament, and a track meet, in which teams representing the various colleges will compete. For those not caring for organized athletics there will be opportunity for swimming and mountain climbing...
...Moore: the Marion Star, the East Liverpool Tribune, the East Liverpool Review, the Salem News-total circulation 30,906 daily. ¶ The group controlled by John C. Shaffer and his son, Carroll Shaffer: the Chicago Evening Post, the Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star, the Terre Haute Star, the Rocky Mountain News (Denver), the Denver Times-total circulation 248,518 daily; 215,706 Sunday...
...interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior claims of the Pioneer Oil Company-which was to receive $1,000,000 in settlement...
Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...