Two hundred Blue Ridge mountainoers rumbled back into their hills by mule team, covered wagon and Model T. Ford, pondering the marvels of Hollywood as portrayed to them today in the first motion picture they ever had seen. hey witnessed the World Premiere of a production entitled "Spawn of the Nortn' and saw Miss Dorothy Lamour without benefit of sarong be encased in a tight-fitting sweater. Thus was life in the Blue Ridge made richer by the cinema art.
See First Movies Bearded men with the eyes of sharpshooters, gaunt women who nursed their children publicly, and youngsters of 13 or less who chewed and spat tobacco with nonchalance and accuracy came into this little resort town on the crest of the Blue Ridge, feasted ^at a watermelon festival, saw the movie with wonder, and talked over radio. microphones
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