Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piggy features Sam Bernard for the many who find joy in his sputtering-and-raging farcicality In this instance, as the plutocratic Mr. Hoggenheimer, he is bent upon forcing his son to marry a title but finally consents to true love with a shop girl. The best part of the show is the dancing chorus. Few stages can boast such dashing sweeps of color and movement. John Boyle created them...
Artist Clivette has lived of late in Greenwich Village, running a curiosity shop called Soul Light Shrine. "Another of those crazy Village clubs," said passersby. But in one of these clubs of late, George Kellman, owner of the New Art Gallery, saw suddenly before his face a canvas showing four horsemen outriding a blizzard. It had color, light, demoniac motion. It was by World-Citizen Clivette. Mr Kellman bought it and others-cascades that thundered, tigers that snarled. Then he opened his up town show...
...prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while, not a big war with a bunch of American cruisers, but a little war with knives and pawn shop pistols! No wonder they get sore at having to tell their family secrets to the marines...
When President Harding was casting about for a Secretary of Labor in 1921, there was much talk as to whether he should pick a businessman or a laborite. He compromised and chose Mr. Davis, a man who still carried his union card but who thought well of the open shop. The result was that Secretary Hoover, businessman, ran most of the labor affairs of the Cabinet. When the conference on unemployment was held in 1921, Mr. Hoover dominated it, causing Clinton W. ("Mirrors") Gilbert to remark that "the finest example of the unemployed at it was the Secretary of Labor...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...