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...citizens can hope to grasp concretely what the whole amazing U. S. rail system is. But the biggest chunk of it, that part which laces and crisscrosses the vast factory between Chicago and Middle Atlantic Coast-is identified by four names...
Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...
...Jackson. Tenn.. a small chunk of ice whisked from a fruit express, cut off Edward Smith's nose...
...small part was the enthusiastic reception of last year's Lysistrata due to the setting executed by Norman Bel Geddes. In Manhattan last week he turned his attention to staging and directing another revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean...
...Deric, who gets on well with Indians and has written a book about them.* The elder Nusbaum likes to go picking into dirty old caves, and if he finds a bit of painted pottery or a woven basket he is as happy as if he had found a chunk of turquoise in a matrix of silver. He docs not go nosing into an Indian's private affairs. If he happens to see a flask of harmless whiskey, he may tell the fellow to throw it away. But he will not have him arrested. One can trust...