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Fine Arts--"Les Doux Orphelines". Notable because of the acting of Yvette Guilbert and some excellent photography. Otherwise not so good unless one likes a French combination of "Little Women" and "David Copperfield...
...commit a deliberate violation of Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would the Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt has told friends: "I've gotten to like that fellow Myron Taylor [U. S. Steel] since I've seen so much of him." Only last week Donald...
...tied up pot after pot of blacking, stuck labels on them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley...
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR DAVID COPPERFIELD-Robert Benchley-Holt ($2). Little rambles with Life's funnyman, one of them serious...
...especially violent dispute centered about Character Steerforth, a friend of David Copperfield. Councilor Jack Salmon demanded to know "who he was before we name a street after him." Answered Councilor Hill, a dignified and venerable resident of Yarmouth, "Mr. Salmon, you will find out all about Steerforth by reading David Copperfield! . . . Although Dickens knew his Yarmouth and immortalized it, you don't seem to know your Dickens...