Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East of Java (Universal). An ex-gangster named Red Bowers (Charles Bickford) becomes a leader of men when cast ashore on an island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip...
...Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...
...three plays will be: "In the Zone, " one of a series of plays written by Eugene O'Neill around the crow of a tramp steamer; "Minnie Field," a short rural comedy by E. P. Conkle; and "A Handful of Sheep," a light Welsh folk comedy by Ronald Elwy Mitchell...
...Tramp Jim Tully: "When life itself is a lie, what matters one more or less before one rides the white horse of eternity into the desert...
...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...