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...Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough of them to occupy a single floor. Consequently they were obliged to fill the suites with...
...Affair of the Follies (Billie Dove). The heroine, a beautous chorus girl, is subjected to the usual rigors of the chase-the stock broker (Lewis Stone), the poor but honest hero (Lloyd Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...
...grumble about "foreign invaders." It was made in 1918, when Russia had just entered the turmoil of social reconstruction and film studios, in consequence, were crippled. Several years after its creation, the Director, M. Nelidov, fled to the U. S., sought occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party in the U. S., owners of the right to Polykushka, refused, for political precautions, to allow the picture to be revealed. A few months...
...criticisms of my coaching, I said: 'Those yellowbellies who crucified my brother and Frank Hinkey and Tom Shevlin are not going to crucify me. I was forced into this job. I am willing to be judged by other coaches . . . not by shyster lawyers, poor doctors, dentists, $18-a-week clerks who think they know more football than Roper, Dobie, myself and all the other coaches in the country. Injuries have crippled the team so that at times this season I have been lucky to have four backs who knew the signals...
...administered the sacrament of extreme unction, John T. King, 51, formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator) Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen by Theodore Roosevelt...