An Epic Tale of Redemption Through Irrigation
April 19, 2023 9:15 AM Subscribe
The club’s nine-decade history and its forthright, sporty name may convince you that Barbara Worth was a real person—say, a pioneering female golfer, a contemporary of Patty Berg and Babe Zaharias who founded the club after a successful pro career. That is not the case. Barbara Worth exists in the pages of a novel and in a silent film. She was the creation of Harold Bell Wright, the most popular and influential California writer no one today has heard of. Together, author and heroine propelled California’s favorite story about itself: that given will and engineering prowess and water, the state can be whatever it wants to be. from The Most Famous California Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
(edited, remove unpaywall link🙄)
I did a paper on Chinatown for a film class of course the famous phrase: "Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water" is apropo of the realities of fiction/non fiction historically. But the flaying angel, Prior-appropriation water rights. I red this novel like a pamphlet for Sears only to match points from the film: 'The Winning of Barbara Worth' (slyt)
Harold Bell Wright. Minister, perhaps the first to make a million bucks writing fiction.
"Harold Bell Wright supplied more negative data on the literary quality of the taste of the fiction reading public than any other author"
forget it it's criticism.
Here is the 1926 film, The Wnning of Barbara Worth
with that Salton Sea of the 20s.
water gangsters, visionary farmers, love, greed are just the neutral aspects of a undercurrent of desperation and ingenuity turned quote innovation on quote. the California water Wars, J.G. Boswell, the dust bowl, Hoover dam, qua The Expansion west, "just a little
further west". Water the main infrastructure to be tamed, diverted, unleashed, the tales of squander and replete beauty. ( cheers to western u.s. mefis snapping the bloom)
posted by clavdivs at 11:00 AM on April 19, 2023 [4 favorites]
I did a paper on Chinatown for a film class of course the famous phrase: "Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water" is apropo of the realities of fiction/non fiction historically. But the flaying angel, Prior-appropriation water rights. I red this novel like a pamphlet for Sears only to match points from the film: 'The Winning of Barbara Worth' (slyt)
Harold Bell Wright. Minister, perhaps the first to make a million bucks writing fiction.
"Harold Bell Wright supplied more negative data on the literary quality of the taste of the fiction reading public than any other author"
forget it it's criticism.
Here is the 1926 film, The Wnning of Barbara Worth
with that Salton Sea of the 20s.
water gangsters, visionary farmers, love, greed are just the neutral aspects of a undercurrent of desperation and ingenuity turned quote innovation on quote. the California water Wars, J.G. Boswell, the dust bowl, Hoover dam, qua The Expansion west, "just a little
further west". Water the main infrastructure to be tamed, diverted, unleashed, the tales of squander and replete beauty. ( cheers to western u.s. mefis snapping the bloom)
posted by clavdivs at 11:00 AM on April 19, 2023 [4 favorites]
That's a pretty good article: nicely written in a literary way.
I never heard of Barbara Worth, but for a while in the early 2000s I worked on some of the Salton Sea projects. Just an intractable problem.
posted by suelac at 12:19 PM on April 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
I never heard of Barbara Worth, but for a while in the early 2000s I worked on some of the Salton Sea projects. Just an intractable problem.
posted by suelac at 12:19 PM on April 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
"John Travolta, Oliver North, Charo" - what a cluster of America.
posted by doctornemo at 12:55 PM on April 19, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by doctornemo at 12:55 PM on April 19, 2023 [3 favorites]
Oliver north.
during or just after the hearings, I was working weekends as an "engineer" at a radio station. I often got bored so I'd go to the library and I found one of Laurel & Hardy and I made a quick clip on a CART.
Stan: " Look Ollie, I've a way to make alot more money"
slipped that in during the newscast. and what does this have to do with that. Stan Laurel lived in California and he certainly drink water.
posted by clavdivs at 3:01 PM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
during or just after the hearings, I was working weekends as an "engineer" at a radio station. I often got bored so I'd go to the library and I found one of Laurel & Hardy and I made a quick clip on a CART.
Stan: " Look Ollie, I've a way to make alot more money"
slipped that in during the newscast. and what does this have to do with that. Stan Laurel lived in California and he certainly drink water.
posted by clavdivs at 3:01 PM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
« Older Settlement for all US Facebook users | Wahhhh! WAAAHHHHHH!!!1~ Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by pxe2000 at 10:33 AM on April 19, 2023