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...last month Ernest Davis, water department foreman of St. Charles, Ill., saw in the corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
Deal, During that dismal afternoon Louis McHenry Howe, the New York Governor's personal secretary and political eyes-&-ears, was waiting in Room 1502, centre of the Roosevelt spider web, when a little group of McAdoo friends marched in.* They had worked for the onetime Treasury Secretary in 1924 and were now ready to help out the onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaker Garner, they reported, was ready to drop his candidacy for first place on the ticket, provided he was given second place. Under the influence of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, flattered with the notion of making...
...Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm...
Long before the spider has been assassinated with a gas bomb the mystery of The Web has been punctured by several large, jagged holes and the cast, following pointed suggestions from the audience, has decided to make the rest as funny as possible. As Playwright Herendeen probably told himself when he wrote it, there is no reason why The Web should not do well as a cinema...
...miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially virulent species has poisoned us all. Potent does not describe this land of mold...