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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
Only recently, Vag has discovered a new out let for his train-love. To him the Massachusetts Model Railroad Society's hangout on Atlantic Avenue is a wonderful place--even better than South Station, his erstwhile favorite. A second-rate poet whose name Vag cannot recall likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds...
...Unless there is a marked reversal of trend," said Dr. Thomas Parran, head of the U. S. Public Health Service last week, "the mortality rate from all causes of death during the current year will be the lowest on record, with the possible exception of 1933." During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors...
Such a run on the history books is abnormal. For, despite the theatre's love of dressing up, historical plays are notoriously bad box office. But if the success of such plays as Oscar Wilde and Abe Lincoln in Illinois is due to competent writing and first-rate acting, the vogue for historical plays in general is really a commentary on the times. With war, fascism, strikes, depressions bearing down on all sides, playwrights and audiences alike tend to be confused, disturbed, jittery, and plays laid in the settled past offer a ready form of escape...
Back in 1918 Frank Bacon played the lovable, lying, drunken Bill Jones, but we doubt if he were any more expert in his portrayal than Mr. Stone. At any rate, in an age of smooth, streamlined productions it is a pleasure to be presented with a comedy the charm of which is as much due to its atmosphere of antiquity as to its content...