Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Jacobsen will add the cost of a room and private bath, board, the use of the laundry and the telephone to her $15 per week "wages," the total amount may surprise her and possibly change her point of view...
...household has been adequately and pleasantly served, during these many years, with the changes of houseworker that the monotony of the work and other circumstances make inevitable. I recognize my good fortune, and further add my gratitude that no Miss Alma Jacobsen has crossed my path...
...think Alma Jacobsen is not the only disgruntled one-for I could add a sequel to her 'good-sized volume" that would make her sit up and take notice...
...improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck...
...failed once as an actress when her husband went to South Africa for a tuberculosis cure, leaving 22-year-old Mrs. Campbell with two children. When he came home six years later he found his wife the toast of London, friend of George Bernard Shaw, famed enough to add a line of her own to Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having her own way, once had a ton of tanbark dumped in Manhattan's 42nd Street...