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...time he had five of his works running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace. A few blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen...
...with the Liberal's and Conservatives, who were bound to unmeaning doctrines by tradition. In office, however, it did not act on the principles which it had confessed as His Majesty's Opposition, and came dangerously near to proving the Communist indictment, that socialism will always, in a pinch, stoop to the grossest opportunism. However, the facts that a Labor Cabinet has never had a majority in the House of Commons, and that the Party is a combination of elements never in accord on the subject of socialism, explain its previous cunctatory policy toward the social reforms which it proposes...
Gumbel. The Nazis had one victory for the week. After weeks of angry protest, Fascist students at Heidelberg succeeded in having tall, stoop-shouldered Professor Emil J. Gumbel dropped from the faculty. His crime according to the Nazis was that he had announced in a lecture: "A turnip is better than a war memorial, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies.'' Professor Gumbel heard the news at Cornell last week where he was attending the International Congress of Genetics (see p. 21). He was not surprised...
...improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster's gi-yap; pre-War Broad & Wall Streets, before the grey House of Morgan filled the corner...
...found very early that being out of hire was not necessarily being out of work. . . . The word 'unemployment' has become one of the most dreadful words in the language. . . . I do not believe in routine charity. I think it a shameful thing that any man should have to stoop to take it or give it. ... It is neither helpful nor human. The charity of our cities is the most barbarous thing in our system. . . . True charity is a much more costly effort than money giving...