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...encourages another to "buck up," but for the most part pessimism is the order of the day. A female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre as the sole work of Louis Bromfield who has lately...
...glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
...Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...
...Intent only on supplying existing demand, makers of 10? cigarets have lately been allowing their product to drift. Reasons: 1) rising tobacco prices have necessarily eliminated advertising and sales promotion: 2) most manufacturers did not have sufficient capital to accumulate large supplies of cheap raw tobacco when the price...