Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trail. Hollywood herded last week to look and listen at its gaudy Chinese theatre. The most expensive cinema ($2,000,000) since Hell's Angels was there exhibited. The subject was pioneering. The medium was grandure (wide) film. The results were very good...
Ideally suited to this formidably imaginative photography was the theme of America's conquest of the West. This was a salable idea long before The Covered Wagon and will still be salable long after The Big Trail. Director Raoul Walsh (The Cockeyed World) flaunted its hardships violently and often unforgettably. His emigrants fought the earth, the elements and the Indians vividly for twelve reels. At one point they even lowered their wagon train over a grim precipice on home made tackle...
Author Hamlin Garland, 70, has a white mustache, a mane of white hair, a good-natured expression. He married (1899) Zulime Taft, sister of Sculptor Lorado Taft. They have two daughters. The Garlands live in Manhattan. Other books: Trail Makers of the Middle Border, A Son of the Middle Border, A Daughter of the Middle Border, Back Trailers of the Middle Border...
...NYRBA is due much pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands...
...hiding in the closet of her hotel suite in Chicago after a campaign conference there. Her telephone wires were tapped. She assumed that the Senate investigation was responsible. She marched into the W. C. Dannenberg Detective Agency in Chicago, put down $1,500 as a retainer, hired sleuths to trail Senator Nye and his investigators. Fortnight ago Senator Nye discovered he was being shadowed (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week he held committee meetings in Chicago to inquire into Nominee McCormick's counterespionage...