Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of four dusky projection rooms at 1600 Broadway last week, a small group of schoolteachers, pencils poised over marking blanks in their laps, sat watching the antics of Mickey Mouse, an erupting volcano, travelogs, Bobby Jones measuring a fairway. Part of an ambitious project that has been going on since May and will continue until September, they had seen and judged by last week some 1,500 motion pictures and expect to see several hundred more. What they propose to accomplish by this labor, undertaken for an advisory committee of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors...
...jump into a volcano...
...incidents; Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross and numerous semi-romantic incidents; and numerous biological implications. The latter are of course the concomitant of anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye. "Waikiki Wedding" consists of practically anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye, from hula to volcano, from pineapples to, of all people Crosby...
...enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails, he stages a mock kidnapping by the natives, who accuse the "Pineapple Girl" of stealing the black pearl which keeps their volcano quiet. The kanakas carry the two men, Miss Smith and her loud companion (Martha Raye) to an isolated island to appease the erupting volcano. Miss Smith finds romance, to the vast relief of Imperial Pineapple...
Grinding the camera mounted in his airplane, bespectacled Explorer Andre Roosevelt, distant cousin of the U. S. President, zoomed the cone of Ecuador's extinct, hitherto unphotographed 20,700-ft. volcano Chimborazo...