Word: laning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...
...dinner, speakers Robert Lane, director of the recent Greater Boston Survey and John Kingman '14, president of United Settlements, traded attacks. Lane urged that tax-supported agencies Lane urged that tax-supported houses as the main organ for social service work...
Kingman defended the settlement house as a neighborhood agency better fitted to grapple with family problems and told Lane, "I'm not worried about your survey because I don't expect to see a single provision of it enacted before...
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