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...Director of the Harvard Forest for one year, beginning May 1, the University has appointed Ward Shepard '10, formerly of the Government Forest Service, and now special adviser on Indian affairs, land policy, and soil erosion...
...forest over which he will have charge consists of 2,300 acres of woodland in Petersham, about 70 miles from Cambridge...
Shepard was with the United States Forest Service from 1913 to 1930, serving as a forest ranger and supervisor in the Southwestern District of the U. S. Forest Service, as Assistant Chief of the government forestry research laboratories in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of the Branch of Public Relations of the Forest Service...
...plot moves fast in the development of character and in the tautening of dramatic strains, but in locale it stays put on the edge of the great Arizona desert. Leslie Howard, an effete poet who believes himself an anachronism, a petrified stump i the midst of a petrified forest, comes upon a little bar-b-q roadhouse, the scene of all the action. There he finds Bette Davis, who confesses with an air of braggadocio passing for humility that she is nothing but a desert rat. At the same time she cannot forget that she is half French because...
...leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome, vibrant picture, and a new experience for anybody...