Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles, but the effort was not proof against an invitation to a shooting match. His successful duel with a prospector prompted the Vigilantes to a civic purge. Head of a little group of outcast reprobates, marooned in a Sierra blizzard with provisions dwindling, John Oakhurst cut the cards, turned up the deuce of clubs, cashed in his chips with a derringer so that the rest could live a little longer...
Some 50 miles northwest of Burbank the San Joaquin Valley is bitten off by the small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash...
...Riley and Merrill (Larry Crabbe) are rivals for Cheers Reynolds, small town sweet-shop operator (Eleanore Whitney). O'Riley goes to little Green Ridge College where he warms the bench. Merrill becomes a star at big Sierra. Agile ballyhooing of the players' amatory conflicts, complicated by Merrill's infatuation for a cinemactress (Priscilla Lawson), builds Green Ridge into a Rose Bowl attraction. Here Coach Moore (William Frawley) wins the game by putting O'Riley in, disguised in a nose cast, after he has dismissed him from the team for improper behavior. Best part: Larry ("Buster") Crabbe...
...author of the play, G. Martinez Sierra, has also written the "Cradle Song," which had a year's run in New York and was produced in the movies...
Paradoxically in Seville and its languorous province of Andalusia the Revolution found itself embarrassed by enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so strongly Republican that he was forced to flee Spain during the reign of King Alfonso. Last week, although Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano...