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Perhaps no city in America today presents so pitiful a spectacle of collapse as does Chicago. A few years ago it was a prosperous, arrogant and supremely lawless city, unashamed of its past, confident of the future. The beginnings of decline which were evident even then, were ignored by both...
Georgia's current drought and forest fires are without parallel in the State's history. Mean total rainfall in November was .04 in., surpassed only by the .01-in. low of November, 1922 which, however, was not preceded by such weeks of drought as this year. Fires cut...
The Woman Between (R. K. O.-Radio) is an example of appalling incompetence. Its story is 1915 drama couched in the seedy terms of 1890 farce. Lily Damita, the star, is unbecomingly attired, subjected to poor lighting and a badly written rôle. O. P. Heggie, an actor of...
There is something in the American temper, something quickly sensed by European visitors, that tolerates an incongrous mixing of the practical and the aesthetic. As early as the eighteenth century, Samuel Sewall's diary records as a matter of course that Sewall's family, on an outing, sang psalms and...
He speculates with the dead nephew's money, makes a tidy fortune. He can get his scrawny, pitiful wife new clothes. He can school his daughter in Paris. He can buy garish new furniture for his wretched flat. But he can never leave the place. He is shackled to...