Word: tenementation
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There was the mayor's well-run Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, at which Jersey City mothers get the finest treatment at low rates. Recalled Hague: "A kitchen table in a dingy tenement was my delivery room. My mother carried me about on a pillow for three months...
...clangorous redolence of Brooklyn streets and schools and stores and tenement staircases, though reproduced with loving care, seems canned and trimmed. Indeed the picture's outstanding weakness comes of its attempt to recreate the life of a big city in a studio, as if under glass, instead of diving into the real city and taking its chances. Working so far from the real thing, it is easy to forget even details which could be remedied in a studio. When mourners shudder in a winter cemetery, their breaths ought to show; and if a hot iron is left...
King of Swing Goodman is giving his annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement House. An excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy...
Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...
Even for this minimum goal the great powers would have to get along in the thousand details, big and small, of inter national diplomacy. Otherwise the post-Tenement of war may be pathetically short-lived...