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...expansion forced it to move into a larger location at Fulton and Dutch Sts., where it has remained for the past 70 years. Now continued expansion has again compelled a move, and this time the firm's executive offices and departments of its Manhattan branch will shift several miles uptown to West 47th St. near Fifth Avenue...
Three Doors. An ill-fashioned farce wandered into an out-of-the-way uptown theatre and stumbled through a dismal two hours. Mystery and satire were the aims of the author, Edward E. Rose; his understanding of either seemed negligible. Assisting in the general depression was a generally inadequate band of actors. The sole novelty was the introduction of many of the characters from the auditorium. This trick has been done seven or eight times before...
...Some ten months ago, this entertainment was unveiled in Greenwich Village under the title of The Leap. Recast and rewritten, it is now uptown. The opening audience could not determine why. On the whole, it seemed one of the most aimless and inept productions of the year. The plot tells of a man who involved himself with a daughter when he thought he was addressing her mother...
...Jetta Goudal. In her first leading part, she quite steals the strength of the picture. She is small and seems to resemble a combination of Marilyn Miller and Mary Hay. The picture plays about on the East Side (Manhattan) amid the slums, and pawnshops. The rich man from uptown marries the poor girl from Hester Street and the audience has only a fairly good time watching...
...Some Coolidge letters of the week: to National Commander Frank J. Irwin.of "Forget-me-not Day" (Nov. 8), endorsing that movement's re- membrance of and aid for, disabled U.S. soldiers; to Harry C. Meek, of the Uptown Lions' Club of Chicago, endorsing the observance of the third Sunday in October as Father's Day, an idea Mr. Meek originated four years ago; to Henry Ford, acknowledging Mr. Ford's withdrawal of an offer to lease Government property at Muscle Shoals, Tenn. (see Page 5) ; to Commander Marion Eppley, National Chairman of the Navy League, approving...