Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water in the sand which the parched party gulps in a frenzy...
Stretching across the fairway at "Grumley's," famed 16th and hoodoo hole of the windy Southporty & Ainsdale course in Lancashire, is a 30-ft. sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
Close-mouthed artists refuse to say how much rent they pay for riparian rights to their small plots of sand. To the City they pay nothing for licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed...
Although Mayor White has not yet gone so far as to urge elimination of all the beach artists, he deplores the trend toward commercialism, would prefer a return to the oldtime "innocuous" status, intimates that he will take steps if boardwalkers are further bothered by money-chiseling sand-chiselers who persist in erecting by their studios such poems as: Kind words I like to hear To praise I'm deferential Criticisms I get now & then But the coins are the things essential...