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...Seed by Pearl Buck...
...sick Great Dane home to her apartment, refused to sing in an Ohio town until authorities ministered to an unhappy mule lying in the street. One of her adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings make quite a mess. Says Mme. Hempel: "I am quite, quite foolish about animals...
...DRAGON SEED-Pearl S. Buck-John...
...Pulham, Esq. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an amazingly good cineversion of John Phillips Marquand's best-selling novel of a New Englander going dutifully to seed. Mr. Marquand has told his story three times (the others: The Late George Apley, Wickford Point); Director King Vidor had only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
Because Intercontinental has most of the know-how, owns all of the known guayule seed (from a 15-year-old experimental station in Salinas, Calif.), Agriculture will work side by side with the company on the new project. Plantings should begin about March, probably in California, New Mexico, other western States. Since an acre of guayule yields about 2,000 lb.of rubber, the new 45,000-acre scheme can produce a total of 40,000 long tons of rubber. Biggest hitch: guayule takes four years to reach maximum yield and each new crop means complete replanting...