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...Walter Pidgeon as Nordoff is the perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...
...PIDGEON'S ISLAND&151;Anthony Berkeley&151;Crime Club ($2). Risking expulsion from the Detection Club for a "guessing finale," the author exposes 14 people to a suspicion of murder. Cast away in an environment of suspicion, each of the group exhibits his basic personality, enabling Roger Sheringham to satisfy the reader's conclusion...
...Miss Pidgeon found that the average median* wage of girls surveyed was $12 per week. Only 7% earned as high as $18 per week, while 25% earned less than $10. Chain-store girls earn about one-half of what women do in other industries. One girl out of four was under 18, only a very few over 25. Only one girl out of ten lived away from home on her earnings...
...practice of underpaying girls because they live at home Miss Pidgeon found particularly deplorable. Said she: "To the extent that the employed girl is unable to maintain herself entirely she becomes dependent upon her family, and thus contributes materially to any precarious financial condition existing within the family while actually spending her time and energy in work that should afford her a living...
State medians for 5,610 girls reported by Miss Pidgeon: California, $16; Michigan, $15; Kentucky, $14; Missouri and New Jersey, $13; Ohio, $12; Delaware and Rhode Island, $11; Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, $10; Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, $9; Maryland...