Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is equipped for sound cinema, partly because of Republican opposition. Nevertheless the film the President saw went to Congress as an official Federal document, is the first motion picture ever placed in Congressional archives. By last week this film, called The Plow That Broke the Plains, was making exciting news in & out of the cinema industry...
Lorentz and his crew filmed grass, cattle, dust in half a dozen western States, wound up in California. Farmers performed easily before the camera, found nothing odd in re-enacting their personal tragedy. At one point Photographers Steiner, Strand and Hurwitz grew fretful because The Plow That Broke the Plains was not forceful enough. When they saw the finished job. however, they withdrew objections. By that time two more notable names were on the film's credit list, on the Federal payroll: Composer Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts), who provided a musical score, and Alexander Smallens...
Picture. By last week The Plow That Broke the Plains had been privately previewed by Hollywood directors, by Interior Department and Resettlement Administration officials and by a group of Congressmen, diplomats, Supreme Court Justices and New Dealers at Washington's Hotel Mayflower. What they all saw was 2,700 ft. of handsome photography detailing a so-year history of how Man has made deserts of the Great Plains...
Wolf-fed Romulus was supposed to have founded Rome 2,689 years ago by plowing a furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
When homespun Kentucky Poet Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times...