Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeeter Lester, the ragged, flea-bitten patriarch of Tobacco Road, is beginning to take on some of the qualities of Hamlet. A great number of actors want to play it, and, by last week, three already...
...year ago last week marked the Manhattan opening of the play about a poor-white-trash family listlessly starving to death in the country back of Augusta, Ga. It took some weeks before the theatregoing public began to perceive in Tobacco Road not a picture of stupid depravity, but an uproarious comedy of destruction. Henry Hull won critical salutes from all sides with his rickety impersonation of Jeeter. After he had played 30 weeks in the part, Universal snatched him off to Hollywood. Then James Barton, a song-&-dance man making his first legitimate appearance, took over...
...looks like Mr. Barton looking like Mr. Hull," reported Robert Garland for the World-Telegram, "but he wouldn't leave Grandma Lester lying dead out in the field. He'd bury her." Comparisons noted, critics agreed that Jeeter was still being capably performed, predicted that Tobacco Road, with a year's impetus behind it, was well on its way to setting another Abie's Irish Rose endurance record...
...Tobacco shares made the most news when P. Lorillard Co. declared a $1 extra, the first since 1917, and George W. Helme Co., famed snuff makers, announced a $4.75 extra special, a $2 customary special, and a regular quarterly of $1.25. Directors of American Can took Wall Street and some of the company's own officers by surprise with a $1 extra besides the regular $1 quarterly. A small chemical company named Vulcan Detinning, which in 32 years of corporate existence has omitted common dividends for 28, made enough out of reducing scrap tinplate to pay a $4 special. Ruberoid...
...floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks...