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...unobtrusive red brick building at 100 Pinckney Street, with its neatly black lettered sign "Pinckney Street Artists' Alliance," doesn't look like much of a threat to what is rightly called "the gallery racket." Yet here in a few small rooms is exhibited work that vies with any of the established galleries in excellence, and sells at prices thirty to fifty per cent lower. The dozen or so members of the Alliance operate on the theory that selling three pictures at $50 apiece is better than selling one at $150. Alexander Eliot, great-grandson of Harvard's President and himself...
...important a cause for the turbulent racket was the fight for union recognition.Labor felt that if it did not strengthen its position during the war it would be badly set back on the coming of peace. Unionizing drives ran smack into ancient prejudices. The battle at Bethlehem was only a skirmish in C. I. O.'s long effort to organize that company. Trouble started last week when an election of officers to the Employes' Representation Plan (which NLRB declared to be a company-dominated union) was flaunted in the faces of C. I. O. steelworkers. The Washington News...
...moving picture is right it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus all at once and that is a hell of a temptation for any writer); the buzzing nightclubs ; the stragglers from Pasadena; the masculine-minded feminine population who even pay the checks; the trade-paper racket where you buy good reviews; the frightening bankers from New York who own the studios; the studio commissaries full of rumors and gossip ; the little houses along the beach where the underprivileged are as comfortable as the big shots in their Bel Air mansions. Only a few of these places...
...like since the days of Boudoir." Broadway audiences continually wonder how so many flops get produced. One reason: even the best producers make mistakes. Another was suggested fortnight ago in Variety, by Producer Oscar Serlin (of the hit comedy Life With Father). He took a lusty whack at a "racket" which has brought many a dollar from angels to sharp Broadway showmen. Said...
...really cares whether or not his argument was water-tight. The fact remains that people agreed with him, and after a while the Prohibition Act was repealed. Then, before the popping of the champagne corks had died down, this Harvard gentleman made sure that the legality of the liquor racket wouldn't be carried to extremes, by clipping the rather dirty wings of beer baron Dutch Schultz. By now, people in Jersey, (where the Judge was operating) were prepared for anything from this legal razor, blade-and they were prepared to like it. Well, the next objects of Clark...