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...Overland Kid, a stiff who was killed falling off a fast freight, returns to earth as Advance Ticket Taker for the Heavenly Express, a ghost train. Since the Heavenly Express elects to use the tracks of the Santa Fe, it causes quite a commotion in roundhouse circles...
Part of an old hobo legend, the Heavenly Express makes a pleasant theatre fantasy, but Playwright Bein leans on it too heavily as a plot device. He has also treated his fantasy far too coyly. The Overland Kid (John Garfield) dances all over the stage, cavorts on chairs and tables, makes pixie faces and Puckish gestures, behaves like someone who is more at home on a tricycle than in freight cars...
...play comes most alive when it forgets its plot and lets The Overland Kid sing the songs of the road, including such a glimpse of Hobo Heaven as the oldtime hobo song...
...motor industry by adding a side line of Mitchell, Case and Flanders automobiles to the stock of his general store at Troy, Idaho. They sold so well that he got rid of everything but the side line, moved to Spokane and became a distributor for Velie, Oldsmobile, Willys-Overland. Last spring he sold his Hudson agency for the Northwest for "about a half-million - that is the closest I can seem to remember." Taking on Graham-Paige's Pacific Coast agency, he staggered President Joseph Bolden Graham by selling 600 cars (10% of Graham's 1939 output...
Young Alcock, his passengers and three of the crew were carried overland to Juba, and from there the crestfallen pilot was recalled to London while thrifty Sir John rushed salvage engineers to the jungle. In three months, despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...