Word: tenementation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Centuries. On the stage of a tiny Greenwich village theatre are set a series of platforms to represent the rooms of a smelly tenement. Through these rooms wanders the disjointed, often dismembered, saga of the sorrows of a Jewish immigrant family. Poverty, graft, prostitution, suicide are a few of the woes that befall. The play is given by The New Playwrights, all of whose theatricals are in the most modern manner. The New Playwrights do not cater to the general public; nor, in general, the public to The New Playwrights...
...Birth control," M. Russell went on to say, "is not only a desirable institution, but also an economical necessity, and especially is it needed in the crowded tenement districts. In China the rapid birth rate is offset by pestilence and famine, but here in America where there is no immediate danger of such conditions, there ought to be some means of enabling a man and woman to enjoy the companionship of married life without the fear of the expenses that children would cause...
...Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life finally converge in the room where lives a woman. No prostitute, she turns out to be the deserted wife of the cruel landlord. The cast is adequate...
...woman in Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50¢ per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...
...York apartment hotel builders have evaded the rigors of tenement specifications by pretending to construct authentic hotels. But in each pantry they have provided electric connections to which tenants could fix electric stoves, hot plates, ovens, waffle irons, percolators, what...