Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers to divine...
Wisely, Messrs. Walk's & Bischoff left him just the same. Even the sets are careful replicas of those used on the stage. Oiwin begins his zoom to greatness when his wife (Carol Hughes) finds a small black book in his extra pants. Heckled by her suspicion that the female names therein are not the names of horses-and his brother-in-law's belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse...
...Spanish ancestry, has shepherded the agrarian and silver-producing diocese of San Luis Potosí for five years. To patient Catholics in States where the Church is relentlessly persecuted, this appointment may well bring hope. San Luis Potosí is one of the few States where priests and nuns walk the streets in canonical garb unmolested. Its local strong man, Saturnine Cedillo maintains a potent private army, favors a moderate attitude toward the Church...
...above the valley's floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...
Having writen it down the Vagabond goes off to walk along the early morning riverbank and dream his morning dreams. His Love. Later is time enough to cease his dreaming...