Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected his cast from slum children who had never acted or even learned to recite. Paulette Elambert, a rather ugly little girl with a big mouth and sad intense eyes, hopes to grow up to be a confectioner...
Designer Jo Mielziner scores one game toward an artistic rubber for Winterset the moment the curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered...
...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
...purpose of reducing unemployment, is not in our opinion within the scope of the powers delegated to the Government." Thus last week the Sixth Federal Circuit Court in Cincinnati condemned PWA's effort to invoke the right of eminent domain to acquire land for its $400,000,000 slum-clearance and low-cost housing program. Upholding a District Court decision which halted a $1,618,000 housing project in Louisville last January, the Court thereby sanctioned the right of any cantankerous or greedy landowner to block a housing project. Owners of 85% of the land desired in Louisville have...
...Abelardo Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action...