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Bill In Austin, a bill was introduced in the Texas Senate to prohibit newspapers from "displaying women's naked legs." Author of the bill was State Senator Olan R. Van Zandt, a blind...
...15th season, a brief paraphrase of the novel. Wang Lung, the hardy farmer, as greedy for more land as the soil is greedy for sun and rain, does not die at the conclusion as he does in the book. And he has not three sons given him by OLan, the big-boned, but one. It is OLan, with a hard knot in her womb from brutal child-bearing and brutal work, whose death climaxes with dignity this conscientious play...
Even when its stately Oriental pace tires, which it does particularly in the beginning of Act III, Actress Alia Nazimova as OLan commands respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
Wang Lung was the poor son of a poor farmer of Anhwei. When he married a slave girl from the rich house of Hwang he hoped his lot would improve, and it did. Olan was as good a wife as he could have picked: silent, a hard and willing worker, a sturdy producer of children. Fortune smiled on Wang Lung, he bought more land. Then came a year of famine. With himself and his family nearly dead of starvation, Wang Lung decided to go south. In Kiangsu they lived like beggars, but they lived...
...Lung a lucky break. In the uproar he stumbled on a good windfall of loot, and back they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing for the good earth from which their fortune...