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Prime organizer of the strike was a Bronx housewife named Mrs. Sarah Licht, secretary of City Action Committee Against the High Cost of Living. Money was raised through open air meetings at which members contributed dimes, nickels, pennies. A Labor society called the United Council of Working Class Women helped out. Demanding a flat reduction of 10? per lb. in all meat prices, Housewife Licht & associates pointed to the following comparison of last week's meat prices in New York City with the same week last year...
Architecture: George Tibbits Licht, 27, son of able Architect George A. Licht...
...rendered into a film of haunting loveliness by the restrained skill of its producers and the charm of Miss Hepburn. Set against the dream-like beauty of the lovely little Scottish village of Thrums the drama unrolls itself with absorbing simplicity and beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played by John Beal) has a hard boat to row for these fiercely pious Scotsmen demand a strength and purity in their spiritual leader which few mortals would dare to assay. This little village is rocked by the industrial turmoil which shook all of Great Britain's industrial...
...story of The Little Minister concerns the Scottish village of Thrums and the alarm which overtakes its devout residents when they learn that Mr. Dishart (John Beal), the rector at Auld Licht, has fallen in love with a gypsy. The panic in the parish is only exceeded by that of Mr. Dishart himself who, when he becomes aware of the state of his feelings, decides that the gypsy is a wanton. Actually, as the audience knows, Babbie is not a prowling vagrant at all, but the ward of Lord Rintoul, who lives in a castle...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...