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...clock one morning last week in Manhattan, Negroes of all sizes, shapes and shades began gathering at an uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up rolled a big, blue Rolls-Royce out of which popped a little brown man clad in grey suit, panama hat, white shirt and honey-colored tie in which gleamed a $5 gold piece. "Here comes the Body!" bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats...
...Wells' contribution to filmlandia, "Things to Come" has passed out of the first run stage, but it is a sufficiently interesting film to justify a short excursion into the provinces. It is to be found in town at the Uptown Theatre, along with Bette Davis in "The Golden Arrow," which is old Michael Arlen stuff and not worthy of Miss Davis' manifold charms and talents...
...caught on to the fact that one does not have to believe in collectivism to collect on the new vogue of social drama, it was not long before Producer Yokel, whose most notable previous theatrical venture was the incredibly lucrative Three Men on a Horse, had arranged an uptown presentation of Bury the Dead...
Before the end of the month every representative of retail interests in the country was taking a stand - most of them against the Guild. The Uptown Retail Guild, which includes most Manhattan shops above 42nd Street, was almost alone in backing the Guild, while the National Retail 'Dry Goods Association sided with Associated Merchandising Corp., gave out its counsel's opinion that the Guild's activities were in violation of the anti-trust laws. It remained for Filene's to bring the issue to court, which Filene's did this month by filing an application...
From Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where struggling artists exhibit their pictures, to 57th Street, where successful artists do the same thing, takes 15 minutes in the subway. It has taken many a worthy artist half a lifetime to make that journey. A show last week at the swank uptown Walker Galleries, attended by all the first-string critics of the city, showed that 27-year-old Joe Jones, onetime St. Louis housepainter, could make it in seven months. His first one-man show in Manhattan was held in Greenwich Village's A. C. A. Gallery last May, promptly...