Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This lengthy, maudlin attempt to tell a tale of frontier womanhood is tough on Pioneer Stanwyck. Most of the time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired...
Today the Cardinals control 27 minor-league clubs-Columbus, Rochester, Sacramento, Houston and New Orleans are their five big proving grounds-and the once-despised farm system is now used by all other big-time teams...
...lived twelve days. It became as large, before it was done, as the U.S. Its snows and rains and brutal airs brought death directly to 14 people, indirectly to hundreds; destroyed billions of locust eggs and averted a plague; ended a drought, flooded a valley, threatened the city of Sacramento; endangered an airplane, stalled a crack train. Before it died it gave birth to another storm which, in its ripeness, did spectacular work in New York City. In its birth, its life, its reproduction, its death, it worked in intimate counterpoint with the shapes and shifts of air upon...
This year San Francisco's opera spread itself for the first time since its founding (1923). It gave three performances in Portland before playing in Seattle. After its opening in its home city this week, Pasadena, Sacramento, Los Angeles are to hear...
HARRISON TODD Sacramento, Calif...