Word: walford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walford, a member of the carpenter staff of the University in whose charge the winding of the clocks has rested for the last ten years, told a CRIMSON reporter that when the wind blows from the north or northeast all the rain and snow with it is driven into the orifice in the side of the clock's face in which the axle of the hands turns. When sleet comes with the wind it is forced around the axle and when it congeals the hands must stop turning...
...Tomorrow morning," said Mr. Walford, "I will climb up the tower of Memorial Hall and pour a few buckets of hot water over the works and try and start the hands going again...
When asked as to the part his feet played in the operation Mr. Walford explained that he spoke figuratively...
Carew, impersonated by Lawrence Cecil, his servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action...
...Cecil's performance as Carew is somewhat imperfect; due no doubt to over-acting at precarious moments. Mr. Clive as William, although not an important role, is as usual above reproach, Alan Mowbray as Anthony Walford, is splendid, and Terrence Neill as the epigrammatic Colonial Governor is quite amusing. Miss Standing as the third and most important member of the triangle is quite good. Mr. Carnovsky as the arch-villain can have no higher compliment paid his art than to say that this member of the audience, for one, cameont of the theatre, reviling and blaspheming his Machiavellian character...