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...TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist...
...Colonist Andrew Stonberg favored the barbiche, a short beard covering the entire chin, currently favored by young Italian Fascisti...
...sideburn, burnsides, mutton chops, or cōtelette was worn by Colonist Eric Olson. Famed throughout the Civil War period by the air with which General Ambrose Everett Burnside wore it, the cōtelette, when connected with the mustache, is known in Austria as the Kaiser Franz Josef bart...
...first important cinema performance of Baritone Nelson Eddy. It concerns a French Princess who, to avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying a colonist, Marietta gives the Governor (Frank Morgan) a lurid account of her past. Just when it occurs to the soldier...
...Colonist. No sooner had Upton Sinclair pocketed his profits than he embarked on his first Utopia, the Helicon Hall Colony. Site was an expensive Mission-type building at Englewood, N. J. above the Hudson, which had been erected for a boys' school. Radical literary folk were welcomed, the idea behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt...