Word: rey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling men blast gold ore from the hot rock walls...
CAST OF CHARACTERS Manuel Arthur Lewis Carmen Campos Georgia Harvey Dona Marciala Katherine Grey Don Evaristo Fred Tiden Papa Juan Otis Skinner Dona Filomena Octavia Kenmore Eulalia Mary Howard Trino Hardie Albright Currita Mary Arbena Rosa Veronica Rey Antonon Charles Dalton Alonso Gerald Hamer...
...Bridge of San Luis Rey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The job of making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died...
Thornton Niven ("Bridge of San Luis Rey") Wilder threw light upon his past work, and perhaps suggested the nature of future accomplishment, when he announced last week to fiction-conscious Bostonians that: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes...
When Mr. Wilder was asked about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and his literary plans for the future, the author said, "The book was written between the duties of a teacher at a preparatory school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book...