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...Foxes, which was being filmed in Florence, Venice, Siena and Rome - and using thousands of extras - would cost $3,000,000 (half of it in U.S. dollars). Anywhere else, according to Producer Darryl Zanuck, it would cost $10,000,000. Zanuck said that he would not "stoop to sweatshop practices . . . We are not in Italy . . . to cash in on another country's depressed condition...
Perils of Pauline (Paramount) is the best remembered of the old serials which starred Pearl White during the wild, playful childhood of the movies (roughly 1910 to 1920). It is also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents...
...children in the grade schools as for children in the high schools." The new plan also struck at an evil that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years.) And it attacked the seniority system (which is vociferously backed by teacher groups) by putting all promotions after six years of teaching on a merit basis. Said Dewey...
During her first struggling year in New York, ex-aristocrat Blavatsky lived at a lower East Side home for working women, picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...