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Married. Clifford Odets, 30, proletarian playwright (Waiting for Lefty) and film scenarist (The General Died at Dawn); and Luise Rainer, 25, Viennese cinemactress (Escapade, The Great Ziegfeld); in Brentwood, Calif...
Last New Year's morning, Al Williams had the idea of flying aloft before earthly dawn to see a preview of 1936's first sunrise. Last week he repeated this maneuver. Upon alighting, he sat down in the hangar and typed out what he had seen and felt. The result was a glowing little chapter of air literature. Excerpts...
...concession for exploration as well as for exploitation. . . . No oil testings have ever been made. ... If the agreement goes through it will take years to lay out the territory and test for oil.'' This temperate talk notwithstanding, two facts remained clear, 1) A country famed since the dawn of history for resist ance to imperial exploitation or more recently high-powered corporate enterprise had accepted an arrangement which in other countries of the Near East has gen erally meant both. 2) Beneficiary of the deal was neither Britain, whose Near East oil holdings are richest in Iraq...
...October found me leaving my native Storvik for Lappland, about 50 mil distant (about 300 English miles.) After two days train ride across to Happaranda I joined my friend Lapp Linnen in his Lapp Kojja (cabin) where we rested in anticipation of a Reindeer hunt the following day. Early dawn found us on the trail of a herd, prepared for six to seven hours journey...
...avoided the entertainments of the voyage, preferring to go to bed early and get up at dawn, read Conrad, study Malaya, brood upon the remarkable changes since his first trip East 27 years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly...