Word: whiteoaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whiteoaks (adapted by Mazo de la Roche from her novel Whiteoaks of Jalna; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings). Chief distinction of Whiteoaks is its 101-year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
YOUNG RENNY-Mazo de la Roche-Little Brown ($2.50). A return to the early days (1906) of the Whiteoak family, 18 years before the prizewinning, pace-setting Jalna...
...More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled out of Moscow last May a contract for the entire Russian output of the proper air-dried wood...
Largely in the hands of small family companies, the beer barrel business is booming wherever and whenever whiteoak staves, air-dried for at least two years, can be obtained. Kiln-dried staves are disdained by some brewers though their makers assert they are in no way inferior. Meantime brewers are scouring Europe to make up the 6,000,000 kegs that the U. S. needs to bring its inventory to pre-Prohibition levels. In June alone $1,000,000 worth of kegs were imported from Germany. Using U. S. labor and fittings Dr. Hammer turns out 4,000 kegs...
...pounds, and as soon as he opened his mouth he called for lashings of victuals. He talked brash and he acted uppety, but he got things done. He could lift 500 pounds of cotton at one lick and with one smack sink a nine-inch spike in a whiteoak tie. With women, too, his ways were winning, till he encountered his fatal Julie Anne. Her chronic faithlessness gave John Henry bad attacks of the all-overs, the down-yonders, even made him ponder the meaning of existence...