Word: answers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Portland papers printed this old Mahoney story last week, a local reporter named George R. Stearns ungraciously produced a letter which he said Mr. Service had written to him in 1928 in answer to a question: "I have no doubt that the Malamute Saloon was entirely imaginary. At this distant date, however, I have little recollection of the circumstances in which my notorious ballad was perpetrated, and my only regret is that I have been unable to live it down." An old bonanza operator named "Skiff" Mitchell had the last word. Sniffed he: "I knew Sam McGee, the fellow...
...tour the country. Final sequence in the picture, with characteristic fidelity to fact, leaves Father Flanagan planning to enlarge Boys Town's population to 500 and hoping to get the necessary funds by prayer-to which cinemaddicts may surmise, this picture may well turn out to be the answer...
...German funsters, like Russians, are still willing to risk their necks with political wisecracks. A recent conundrum which they thought sidesplitting: "What is the difference between Russia and Germany?" Answer: "Russia is much colder...
...which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...
...citizens who seldom saw an oil painting in their lives are now not only seeing plenty but learning such things as the reason paintings crack (more oil in bottom layers of pigment than in top layers), the question remains as to how firmly rooted this program is. One answer to that question is political and obvious. Another answer can be made only when time has had a chance to sap the present enthusiasms of the school children of Salem, Oregon, the Junior League of Sioux City, Iowa, and their counterparts in other communities...