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...Federal Council did not forget. Last summer it sent Emil M. Hartl and Edward G. Ernst, graduate students at the Boston University School of Theology, to spy out conditions in the land of Steel. They went to Birmingham, Pittsburgh, eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, eastern and southern Ohio, western New York, the Chicago district. They gathered statistics on 155 plants belonging to 127 companies, read official data, charts, and records...
When findings of Messrs. Hartl and Ernst were made public, the firm names were concealed beneath serial numbers. Thus it was impossible to tell which employers demanded the longer hours and longer weeks, or to what extent U. S. Steel has carried the reduction of hours for which philanthropists have applauded the late great Steelman Gary...
...that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique, essentially...
...People first began talking about Ernst Lubitsch when Pola Negri was getting popular. He directed her in the pictures that made her reputation?Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night. With her he made Madame Du Barry, called Passion in the U. S., which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with...
...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...