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...peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time explaining the change that Tom Huston finally wrote a booklet : What Happened to Tom Huston - The Whole Story in a Peanut Shell. Son of a Texas peanut planter, he started to toast peanuts in a small shack in Columbus about 1925. By 1930 Tom Huston's Pea nut Co. had a big factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins...
...police. She arranges a rendezvous with the kidnappers but they are frightened off by the appearance of some casual motorcyclists. Miss Fane appeals for help by press and radio, even talks through amplifiers while flying over the length & breadth of California. Her words are heard by a hearty, featherbrained shack-dweller (Alice Brady) who grows suspicious of some mean-looking people who have moved in nearby with a baby. She sells them milk, gabbles at them. They are on the verge of killing the baby when the shack woman snatches it away, eludes their shots, escapes in a battered auto...
Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen...
Author Fisher does not share the popular superstition that childhood is a happy, happy time. Certainly the childhood of Vridar Hunter was not happy. Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister. His parents did not think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood...
...palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went to his work shack on the lobby balcony to change from his overalls. At once more guards appeared, pushed away the movable scaffold. Others came with planking. Within half an hour, the unfinished fresco was covered with tarpaper and a wooden screen. Meanwhile one of Rivera's assistants rushed hysterically out to the restaurant where...