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George Houston is a onetime teacher in Rochester's Eastman School of Music who is currently starred as a horse-opera hero in Pathé's serial The Lone Rider. ("Those horses bounce the bejesus out of me-I hate 'em.") But Houston has learned things in Hollywood. He takes grand operas in hand, revamps the stories, alters characters, rewords arias-and of course translates them into English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions...
...Samuel Robinson Ogden, 46, Swarthmore graduate, architect, World War I veteran, former legislator, author of a book on gardening (How to Grow Food for Your Family) and schoolteacher. He is also a colorful character and the insurgent candidate for the Republican nomination for his State's lone seat in the House...
...remained," writes Moore, "till I felt too conspicuous to stay any longer-a lone man in a crowded hall occupying one among 20 vacant chairs on the floor. . . ." And, finally, Moore was with the Japanese Embassy in Washington through the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941 he had believed he could do nothing to restore Japanese-American relations, and told Ambassador Nomura so. But Nomura insisted that he stay. "We are in the last ditch," he admitted, "but we must continue the struggle anyway...
Probable carriers of these token shipments were lone ships which could steam some 16,000 miles around Cape Horn without refueling. Stealing secretly out of guarded ports, with radios silenced, a few such hermit ships had a fair chance of avoiding U.S. or British trade-route patrols. But what they carried around Cape Horn could only be a trickle. Declared the Ministry of Economic Warfare: "Many battlefields remain to be fought on before Germany and Japan can be said to be in contact with one another...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...