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Happily enough, the co-feature, "Mannequin," is also good. Joan Crawford, cast to type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity...
...trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate date c tenement was built from a glance at the fire escape or the cornice...
...third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music, movies, lantern slides. Most of the dialog runs between an omniscient Voice issuing from a loudspeaker and a Little Man who springs out of the audience and wants to know...
Crime, disease and juvenile delinquency are shown spawning in the squalor of "old-law" tenements,* of which 67,000 still exist in Manhattan. The horror of a cholera epidemic which ravaged the slums in the last century is vividly projected. (Today's scourge: tuberculosis.) Two scenes show the panic when fire sweeps through the tenement's rickety hallways...
...Erected or existing prior to the Tenement House Law of 1901, which set up standards for future construction, created minimum standards for existing tenements...