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Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
Three days & nights of such rowdy high jinks by organized jobless in the galleries last week forced Pennsylvania's General Assembly into submission. For 13 weeks its Democratic House and Republican Senate had haggled in special session over relief for the State's 560,000 needy. Last month when funds ran out, a small group of unemployed rolled into Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking...
Last April 700 Workers Alliance delegates marched on Washington to hold convention and see Franklin Roosevelt, who was vacationing in the South. After tongue-lashing the Government's relief policies, they voted by "129,958-to-21,413" to unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were...
...business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag's workers, jobless for ten months, had at least the certainty that they would never work for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. again...
Meanwhile the cost of keeping Manchester's jobless on relief from June 1935 to June 1936 was $1,619,000-about one-third of New Hampshire's total relief expenses...