Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's Always Juliet. John Van Druten (Young Woodley) tells the tale of an English girl (Edna Best) and a young American (Herbert Marshall) who fall head-over-heels in love with each other at first sight. They have been acquainted only two days when he is called back to Manhattan to look after his architectural business. He offers marriage, and for the first time they sit down soberly and try to find out about each other. He has been wed before, divorced, has a child in Colorado. These revelations suddenly turn a carefree romance into a very serious...
...tale, however, was typical of the wild rumors which have been gossip in the industry during recent months. Turbulent in infancy, the cinemaelstrom was still concerned last week with who was going to be in charge of what...
...General Maximiliano Martinez acted swiftly. Troops set out from San Salvador, chased the rebels into the mountains, where they burned and pillaged villages as they fled. Foreigners hastened to leave the country. Many women took refuge aboard the Canadian ships. Airplanes carried refugees to Mexico, where they told a tale of 26 government officials being lined up against a wall and shot. Others fled to Panama, reported that from 600 to 1,000 had been killed in the uprising. They blamed the failure of the U. S. and other countries to recognize the junta government for giving the Communists courage...
...remember our tale of the Russian bells in Lowell House at Harvard: how the Russian bellringer who was brought over to ring them fell into a mood, took to drinking ink, and had to be sent home, so that the bells have never been rung. Nobody so far has denied that the Russian bellman drank ink, but several people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...