Word: prunes
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Newshawks found "Eve" Shinn in the middle of his gallery last week, re-enacting for the benefit of a few oldtimers another of his melodramas, dear to the author but less successful commercially than Hazel Weston. It was entitled Lucy Moore, the Prune Hater's Daughter. Leaping about the room, acting out each part and interpolating editorial comments, Artist Shinn gave his version of the plot. Excerpts...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...biggest dynamos. Natural gas properties must be divorced, hitting particularly Columbia Gas & Electric and Electric Power & Light. Restriction of holding companies to ownership of utilities is apparently aimed at such sidelines as Cities Service's big oil business and American Water Works & Electric's California prune orchards...
Take care of the garden, rake grass, prune trees...
...Estancia was originally acquired as an escape from devoted readers who "just couldn't go home without seeing Kathleen Norris." It is a rambling, comfortable house with 14 small guest cabins by a ravine, 14 acres of decorative prune trees, broad lawns, flowers, a swimming pool, a theatre with a 7-foot stage for family theatricals, loud speakers by both croquet court and pool. The ranch is under the special care of "Ceegee," who does the hiring, firing and ordering. Of a week-end there will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came...