Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...University football team may have had its ups and downs but the Harvard Band experienced an unprecedented season, leaving behind it a trail of broken records, according to statistics compried by one of the band members...
...within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free Air. Then he borrowed $500 from his father, retired from other work to a lodging house in Washington, D. C. and wrote Main Street (1920). Its success was immediate; the title phrase and Sinclair Lewis became national bywords. Some 50,000 copies...
...good looks. She was a headliner on the Keith Circuit when she was five, nearly 40 years ago. She went to high school for two years between road-shows. Since the days of her thrillers (Ruth of the Rockies, The Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture rare in life but common to the rich heroines...
Other institutions have tried plans even more radical than this. Their experience makes it possible for Harvard to follow a blazed trail. The University would be taking no radical step to excite Mrs. Grundy or even the Deans of womens' colleges. Smith and Mount Holyoke have already shown that college girls can have their own regulations despite the hospitality of near-by Amherst fraternities...
...Santa Fe Trail (Paramount). This is another western, beautifully photographed, nicely acted, but static and thoroughly dull as entertainment. Taken from Hal G. Evart's Saturday Evening Post serial, Spanish Acres, it is in effect a long argument as to whether some sheep owned by a U. S. boy are to be grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children...