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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doormats marked "Unwelcome." 3) The wearing of dark glasses on the street...
Laborite Member of Parliament Dr. Edith Summerskill is a belligerent feminist. She is also a top-notch gynecologist and mother of two children. Her husband, likewise a doctor, works in London's famed Harley Street, where doctors' fees are reputed highest in the world. During the House of Commons' question time one day last week, Edith Summerskill, M.P., M.D., stood up and asked: "Will the Prime Minister consider the introduction of legislation to compel wage earners to disclose their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took...
Most U. S. theatres are either obsolete or stupid. Famed in the profession is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, where the builder forgot dressing rooms. Another building had consequently to be bought on the next street, to which actors could commute by tunnel. First-rate modern architects have usually done business with individuals who want sensible homes or with industrialists who want sensible factories. Broadway has been no place for them...
...Wall Street Journal this week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
...movies are a refuge for actors with little skill and greedy pocketbooks," Walter Huston said yesterday when interviewed in his backstage dressing room at the 46th Street theatre. "You can make a lot of money in the cinema, it's true, but, compared to the stage...