Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...
United Artists Corp., founded 20 years ago to distribute pictures for independent producers, is today a relatively small pond full of big fish. Biggest fish is Samuel Goldwyn (né Goldfish), who has owned U. A.'s studios since 1935 and last week renamed them the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Producer Goldwyn proposes to make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter...
...Commission's statisticians reported that in 1850 there were 890 adults for each 1,000 youths (16 to 25), but today youth is outnumbered 2,200 to 1,000 and by 1960 it will be outnumbered 3,000 to 1,000. A Commission report* blamed this situation on a decline in "fertility among American women." Commission Member Dorothy Canfield Fisher dissented testily: "Why pick on the women? It takes two for that...
...Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...
...Street, now the world's safe deposit box, Sir John Simon's order to investors to "Buy British" recorded another portentous retreat from the free capitalism of Adam Smith. Under it, Britain found that capital export opened markets, expanded prosperity across national boundaries, employed surplus British wealth. Today, British capital is no longer exported in this sense; it flees, and its flight is at this time a drain on national resources...