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...city of slums, grimy schools, furtive assignations, venal officials, speakeasies, dingy hall bedrooms, cigar-stuffy offices and law courts, is not a pleasant metropolis but it is a long way from being a city of the dead. The speech of its inhabitants, broken, illiterate, suggestive, rings like true coin of the realm, worn from much handling. And the scene is presided over by a creator who tempers her justice with mercy...
...help me, sor"--she began, fidgeting the while, but the Vagabond had already melted with compassion. He dug deep into his pocket, found the coin, gave it to the old woman, and passed on. Her thanks were a mumbled blessing, and she hurried to recross the street, for there was another pedestrian approaching--A pedestrian whose saddle shoes were new, whose bow tie was immaculate, and whose pockets were, no doubt, deeper...
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE-Sir Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guardsmen in tights. But at last when in a roomful of officers she learns her husband is dead, her wrath and majesty are so great that her stature suddenly seems to increase and dominate the men. Elizabeth Bergner appeared...
...Evanston, Ill. met 250 C. & C. secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...