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Schools, As taxpayers, contributing money to State and local school systems, many Catholics believe that they should get aid for their parochial schools. Many Protestants, however, hold that if Catholics do not choose to put their children in public schools, that is their lookout. In Ohio, where State aid for parochial schools has been fought in the Legislature for five years, religious bitterness has hampered the work...
...months before opening its revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, management of New York's Mercury Theatre wrote to Playwright Shaw to ask what royalties he wanted. Surprised to get no reply, the Mercury cabled Playwright Shaw, finally extracted his assurance that his terms "would not be too unreasonable'' (TIME, May 8). Last week, when Heartbreak House, after running for six weeks, was about to close, the Mercury Theatre finally got Playwright Shaw's terms and his excuse for the delay...
Silly is its plot, silly the Victorian primness that made the plot possible. Briefly, two young ladies get each other's dance bouquets by mistake, thereupon pine and languish in silence (except for eight or ten solos and duets) along with the tongue-tied swains who sent them. Although first-nighters felt now & then that they were being sprayed with charm as though from an atomizer, much of the time The Two Bouquets saved itself by being smartly paced, lightly keyed, freshly mounted...
...than a year ago (TIME, May 3, 1937). Alcoa fought it with an injunction by a Pittsburgh judge on the ground that the monopoly accusation had been settled by the 1912 consent decree. It took a U. S. Supreme Court decision and a set of minor court skirmishes to get Alcoa finally to court in Manhattan last week for the main show. Nonetheless, Alcoa asserts it has not delayed unnecessarily, that it is eager for the trial, all issues of which it says have been amply aired and settled by previous investigations and trials...
...elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell Brooke. Directors also voted to pay a 25?dividend on July 1, said they planned to pay another 25? next October. If they do, C. & O.'s common stockholders, who received $3.80 last year, will get $2 in 1938, least since 1921. Meanwhile, final outcome of the big battle for C. & O. waited on the pleasure of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Court reconvened this week, the deadlock was expected to be broken once & for all. But the Court reserved decision...