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Westward Passage (RKO) improves on Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel but is still dull, incredible. It purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt...
Landlord and tenant cases provide the principal source of outside work. Although many trivial and amusing cases come to the attention of the Bureau, much valuable service has also been rendered. In the case of a man who was penniless and had all his property taken away from him by his landlady, the Bureau took the case and got a decision from the court to the effect that a boarding house must house at least five members not related to the proprietor. As a result all the property was returned to the rightful owner...
...plagued all. Within a short time every colonist except Bill Murray and his half-Indian squaw had returned despondently to the U. S. They alone stuck it out for five wretched years, fighting insect pests, drought, shifty Bolivian officials. Finally in 1929 Bill returned to the U. S. practically penniless to complete the most remarkable political career in Oklahoma's history...
...night lunchroom which was recently installed at Eliot House has turned out to be, in its short existence, a great success. It has become the basis both for the penniless student who desires nourishment after studying and the student who has change in his pocket but is too lazy to wander up to the Square. Furthermore, it serves as a pleasant rendezvous for undergraduate groups after amusements or athletic engagements...
California, land of promise in times of prosperity and catch-basin of the penniless in this time of depression, has adopted heroic measures in regard to its "non-resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting...