Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...
Playwright Anderson, who took the historical liberty of sending a girl friend to Washington at Valley Forge, has his own dramatic explanation of Rudolph's and Mary's deaths. He thinks that Franz Joseph infuriated Rudolph by ordering his separation from Mary when Rudolph wanted to leave the corrupt court and marry her. He guesses that Rudolph was approached by Hungarian separatists at this critical time and accepted a proposal that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however...
...Philip Howard; John Golden, producer). Actor Philip Merivale is unquestionably the longest-suffering man on the U. S. stage. He suffered as the disillusioned Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he grieved as the erring husband in Cynara, he went through agonies as the betrayed Washington in Valley Forge and in Death Takes a Holiday his was the title role. In And Now Good-Bye the handsomely gaunt Englishman is once more presented as a noble and appealing character for whom things are very...
...invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back up the valley. Back to the sing-song...
...been granted, the Soviet government decided nevertheless to prohibit the expedition's passing through Russia, and so it became necessary to cross the Himalayas. The trucks crept painfully over the narrow icy passes, and the photographers produced their masterpieces. The edge of the road would crumble into the valley below, and for agonizing seconds a truck would lurch and then hold. Sometimes the risk was too great, and there was no way through except by means of the infinitely wearisome process of pulling the cars apart and carrying them piece by piece across the apparent impasse...