Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics of the play seemed not quite sure whether it was bad or mediocre, but were reminded of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. Unlike the Chekhovian piece, Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...
...Where is the Constitution, and who are the select few that wrote it? Perhaps it is not, as was granted above, such a fine document. At least it would be interesting to know something about it. The machine in urban polities is possible because the voters are ignorant and needy, and because those who should vote, are indifferent and don't. In this case the ignorance of the members of the Class, is not their fault. They have never had a chance to see the Constitution. The indifference is their fault, and this may be also properly considered an appeal...
...loan associations, savings and deposit banks, farm loan banks and the like would subscribe to H. L. D. B. capital stock. What they failed to contribute the U. S. Treasury would make up. Each H. L. D. B. would rediscount prime first mortgages of $15,000 or less on urban or rural homes. The subscribing members of each H. L. D. B. would turn in real estate paper and get back from the H. L. D. B. 50% of each short-term mortgage, 60% of each long-term one. Such rediscount loans would be limited...
...sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera. It has had over 1,000 performances, been translated into 14 languages. For the U. S. premiere last week Scenic Artist Joseph Urban designed a flaming Hell equipped with sewing-machine, typewriter, electric switchboard and elevator up to earth...
Dwindling Labor. Labor's critics, among them J. B. S. Hardman in last week's New Republic, paint a sorry picture of U. S. organized Labor, particularly of the A. F. of L. whose membership dwindled 71,000 in the past year alone because of unemployment. Urban U. S. citizens get the notion that every worker in the country has a union card. That is because city dwellers who are annoyed by having to pay plasterers $15.40 a day, come chiefly in contact with building tradesmen whose ranks show an optimistic gain of 461,000 in the past...