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...coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered and waved, laughing, sometimes jeering. Children, white, black, yellow, many times screamed derision; but Willkie's evangelical earnestness won their parents' respectful attention. Even in polyglot Homestead, where the police motorcycles bore "Vote Roosevelt" signs, Willkie was heard fairly & fully. For five hours the candidate crisscrossed...
...little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors; a sign in the Accident Ward: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS THE NURSE SAYS IT IS ALL RIGHT...
...Scripteuse Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to recuperate. In order to bring Big Sister back at the end of this month, Miss Bartlett is planning to have a drunken no-good set fire to a tenement, blister Big Sister's husband, Dr. Wayne, so badly that she'll have to rush home to take care...
Outside shooting was done in & around Chicago. Lorentz kept an old station wagon prowling through the slums, filming tenements, children at play in traffic, people grubbing refuse from garbage dumps behind decaying buildings. Sometimes the camera was tilted from tenement roofs...
...children through childbirth. At the Maternity Center, the Young Interne (Myron McCormick), who assisted at the first fatal delivery, learns to deliver babies successfully. Each delivery presents a fresh problem. Each teaches him something. At the last he is in charge himself. He delivers a baby in a tenement and prepares to go. Suddenly the mother's pulse slows down. Down goes the blood pressure. The Young Doctor, quietly frantic, administers stimulants to keep life alive until he can get a transfusion from the blood bank. In the picture's most harrowing scene, the blood drop by drop...