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Chaplin. A German film company made a full-length feature film called Adventures by skilfully joining three famed Chaplin comedies, In a Pawn Shop, The Immigrant and Easy Street. For four weeks the silly, $100-a-week Chaplin, 12 to 14 years younger than the present grey-haired Millionaire Chaplin, played to full houses in the Alhambra, biggest cinema house in Berlin...
...looked around and called for Abie. Abie is my $150-a-week New York office boy. He's worth it! ... Abie started to look around and found an old woman, thrown out of her berth, completely nude. Abie saved her, led her up to the bank. She went along quietly. Not a bit of hysteria, embarrassingly nude as she was. Her calm was wonderful...
...Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office (at No. 11 Wall St.) will boast Manhattan's first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest. As the ticker registers a quotation, an operator in the central station of the Teleregister types...
...there is no lack of ventilation. With the temperature below freezing and a 30-mile wind howling down the valleys and across the hillsides, there is warmth and a measure of comfort in snuggling up close as the cold air rushes in through the unmatched boards. . . . The $3-a-week allowance from the union must furnish food, clothing and other necessaries. For a family of five this means a little less than 9 cents per day. . . ." (New York Evening World...
...begin the story, he was the $18-a-week clerk in his brother-in-law's cigar store in Park Row, lower Manhattan, 37 years...