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...loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes and nurseries for poor children, recreational clubs. Through the Church and the Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects...
Died. Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, 73, veteran roving columnist of the New York Sun (Bob Davis Reveals), expert amateur photographer, famed helping-hand-to-struggling-authors, tireless writer of reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for the Sun for more than 15 years, scattering harmless anecdotes he had been accumulating ever since he began making friends as a Munsey magazine editor in the early 1900s...
...though don't blame it on bad acting but bad casting and a hackneyed plot. Turner having a baby and pulling a Durbin act calls to mind sweaters, Artic Shaw, and one-month-marriages, thereby wrecking the general effect. There's also a second feature dealing with love in prolix form, a broken engagement and other assorted ho-bum. Lack of Harvard football pictures indicates another oversight on the management's part, no doubt...
Whatever one may think of Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's controversial theories, "The Crisis of Our Age" is a valuable book, a single-volumed, relatively concise key to the thought locked in the prolix prose of the four-volumed "Social and Cultural Dynamics." Whatever one may think of these theories, Sorokin is worthy of a careful reading. By his own repeated confession here is the man who has made of sociology a super-social science, the only man who has successfully rationalized man's history, the only man who can successfully explain the crisis of our age--and then just...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major (Saxonian State Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm; Victor; 18 sides in two volumes; $10). Devout, naive-he gratefully tipped Conductor Hans Richter one thaler (71?) after the first performance of his fourth symphony-Composer Anton Bruckner wrote some of the most prolix symphonies in history. Dresden's orchestra, one of Europe's finest, gives Bruckner's long melodies a fine recording, the only one now available...