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...Grace of God (by Leopold Atlas; Theatre Guild, producer) is a sombre chronicle, without beginning or end, about a poor family named Adamec. The father has been out of work three years. The mother scrubs and washes. The elder son ruins his health in a juvenile sweat shop and the younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers...
...life at the theatre, it has never been our experience to find ourselves "let down" by any Theatre Guild performance. "Pride and Prejudice" is no exception. It is bound to please, if you take care to discount in advance the wit of an earlier day and charge it up to atmosphere...
...uproar was caused, almost before President Kern mounted the rostrum, by a proposal to do something about Judge Edward D. Black's strike injunction at Flint. After much discussion punctuated by cheers and hisses, tabling and enabling votes, the proposal was tabled on grounds that the National Lawyers Guild really did not yet exist...
...looking character . . . [concerning] child labor, reasonable business regulation, security and labor." "[The minority's concern for liberty has been property." secondary to its concern for Earnest Morris Ernst's clarion call did not go unanswered. Within a fortnight more than 250 letters came into the National Lawyers Guild's Manhattan offices, others were addressed to Mr. Walsh personally. Preceding a national convention in Washington next month, scores of cities sought charters in the Guild, affiliation with which, the Guild's manifesto set forth, "will not conflict with membership in any other organization...
Last week in Manhattan more than 500 legalists, old and young, liberal and radical, gathered in the stately chambers of the New York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the Bar Association beheld a scene of fine parliamentary confusion, as scores of pent-up legal spirits strug gled to express themselves. In a two-hour session, highlighted by a plea "to call in a few lawyers" to restore order, Paul Kern, Manhattan Civil Service Commissioner, was elected president, two steering...