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...feeble-looking man with close-cropped grey hair shuffled up to the proprietor of the Old Orchard Inn at Roslyn, L. I., one evening last week. "I want an inexpensive room." he said. "I can't afford to pay very much...
...hazardous art. ... In spite of all the testimony the court has heard it would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only...
...being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author of an astounding novel, "Gallows Orchard," and a dozen others are making a literary future for America. The years of experimenting with form are almost at an end, classicism is returning, and simplicity and a straight-forward narrative is found to be the most powerful weapon at the writer's command...
...Cherry Orchard"--New Amsterdam Theatre, 42nd Street, W.--Alla Nazimova in Tchekov's most popular play. Like all of Miss Gallionne's repertory, "Cherry Orchard" is excellent and well-acted. Alternates with "Alice in Wonderland" done in the best Tenniel fashion with elaborate hares, hatters, and cats. "Cherry Orchard" plays Monday through Wednesday, and "Alice," that is the last word, the remainder of the week...
Their preliminary flashes sent, press associations began to get an idea of the scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...