Word: ruralization
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...three plays will be: "In the Zone, " one of a series of plays written by Eugene O'Neill around the crow of a tramp steamer; "Minnie Field," a short rural comedy by E. P. Conkle; and "A Handful of Sheep," a light Welsh folk comedy by Ronald Elwy Mitchell...
ANOTHER important boy from rural mountain parts--with face and hair of reddish hue, is Thomas L. Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer...
...five Democratic contenders for the Governorship, Governor Ruby Laffoon and his potent machine backed an oldtime politician from Russellville named Thomas S. Rhea. Rhea's chief adversary was young (37), spectacular Lieut. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler of Versailles. Son of a rural mailman, red-headed "Happy" Chandler earned his way at University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later...
...great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...
Horses are now obsolete as a means of speedy locomotion. This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused...