Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should prove eminently acceptable not only to U. S. youngsters but also to older folk who regard horse operas as topnotch entertainment. Second only to the works of Zane Grey, the Hopalong Cassidy series have sold 1,500,000 copies in the U. S., have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish, the Scandinavian. Clarence Edward Mulford published his first Western in 1907 when he was a city clerk in Borough Hall. Brooklyn. Seventeen years later he took his first trip West, to have a look at the locale he had been writing about. When, about six years ago, his royalties...
...capacity from 385,000 lb. a day to 485,000 lb. a day. Carbon black is produced by burning a "sour" natural gas that is no good for lighting or heating. Tiremakers take 75% of the output; 15% goes into inks; the remainder is used in rubber heels, shoe polish, paint, other products. ¶ By Nov. 1 the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had made 7,381 teletypewriter installations, compared to 5,419 as of Nov. 1, 1934. ¶ Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor announced an additional dividend of 10% to depositors of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank...
...Island (TIME. Oct. 17, 1932; Jan. 15, 1934; Nov. 5, 1934), written from and for an amazing record, was not designed for neat conversion into a scenario. Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours which it lasts seem as interminable as Bligh's voyage in the open boat must have seemed to its occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still...
Died. Benjamin Warner. 79, onetime Polish emigrant, cobbler and delicatessen dealer, father of the cinema's three Warner Brothers (Harry. Albert, Jack); in Youngstown, Ohio...
...Warsaw and Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Mottke the Thief, excellently translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, reveals a fresh aspect of Sholem Asch's talent, tells a lively, picturesque tale of a Jewish vagabond who bounded among the pillars and posts of pre-War Polish society. Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married her so she would always be on hand when he wanted to beat her. Mottke fled from this violent household with...