Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
Last week 80-year-old James McIntyre (Alexander Hambletonian of The Ham Tree) died at his home near Southampton, L. I. As he lay dying he wondered querulously why his old partner Tom Heath (Hennery Jones of their act) had failed to send his usual telegram of birthday greeting. But old Tom Heath, 84, a few miles away at Setauket, was beyond such amenities. He has been paralyzed since last year...
...Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less pleased perhaps by the premature revelation of its plans for an apron...
...penitentiary for "hardened criminals," is a 3,000-acre-military reservation near Harrisburg which was abandoned last year by the National Guard. Its site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
After two weeks of swapping, cooking, costuming, supping from boxes, and tying knots, Girl Scout delegates will pack up, board busses for Plymouth, Mass., where they will visit Camp Pine Tree as guests of Mrs. James J. Storrow before returning to their respective States and nations...