Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember this Southern play by Lula Vollmer, which told so sternly and so well certain truths about the mountain people. In the picture it still has its tale to tell, plus a love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne, as in the play...
...Reece does not believe in Evolution, a fact which comforted all pioneer Tennesseeans. But he does believe that, if the theory could be proved beyond the shadow of a scientific doubt, it would not conflict with the tale of Genesis. This was likewise approved by the Tennesseeans...
Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...
Spring Fever. The first production in many weeks that has not been definitely distressing moved in last week to tell a tale of golf and tender passions. I: is true that the latter toughened up a trifle in the final act when Mr. A. H. Woods pulled one of his laciest beds out of storage and gave the public what he found it wanted long ago. The scene was often in bad taste and quite irrelevant to the rest. Like the rest, however, it loosed a light supply of laughter...
...POOR NUT-A cheerful college tale of the midnight oil burner who suddenly flared up as the champion of the quarter mile...