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According to a census conducted last night in one of the House Dining Halls, the average upperclassman has $.22. Forty men were interviewed during the dining hours. One man confessed that he had two dollars but didn't remember where he got it. Four happily owned to being penniless. Three were able to amass two cents after delving among keys and cigarettes. Despite the poverty there was general optimism. In the Union, however, there was great wealth. Five men produced more than five dollars, one revealed a twenty dollar bill saying that it was available at 20 per cent interest...
...Betters (RKO) is a well photographed version of Somerset Maugham's acrid comedy about U. S. parvenues in London society. Less a play than a gallery of portraits, it has the merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson...
...washer and scrubman on Park Avenue when he won his first art prize, $400 and a gold medal, in 1926. His employer added $3,000 and sent him abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through...
...lusty, religio-communistic sect, the Doukhobors. Needing settlers, Canada offered them asylum and 450,000 acres of land in 1899. Descended from Tartars, bandied about for almost a century from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries...
...outdone by competing compatriots, Mr. Otkar, Manhattan antique-dealer, shut up shop. His principal remaining asset, one large antique bed, was a problem which the timely arrival of Morris Rosenberg, a penniless fiddler, helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night...