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Having twice refused to recommend Henry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoals to the Senate, the Committee on Agriculture reported Senator Norris' bill for Government operation...
...Ford supporters were not downhearted, however. In spite of the fact that the Committee had voted more than two to one against them, they prepared to offer the Ford proposal as a substitute for the Norris Bill when the latter was discussed on the floor of the Senate...
...silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations, in a way that will probably confuse all but those who have grown up with the original operetta...
...instead of strolling, the company will travel by means of a Ford truck, which each night will be converted into the stage on which the actors perform before their village audiences. By day the truck appears like any other truck upon the road. At night, its, sides are folded out and supported on hinged legs, giving a stage some 15 feet square. An upper stage is placed over the driver's seat. Then a canvas roof and background is raised over the platform, tents are raised to right and left for dressing rooms, and a curtain stretched between...
...unfortunate that the voyageurs are to travel in a commonplace Ford truck, and not, like Scaramouche, in a gaily painted wagon. So much, in these experiments, depends on the method of approach, that the loss in travelling time would be more than offset by the resultant gain in advertising, which could be achieved by having the comedian, in blackface, clashing cymbals from the roof of a purple-and-yellow moving van; as the caravan wound at an impressive pace through the countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content...