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First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...
...more than 600 cinema and vaudeville houses under unified control, a $250,000,000 entertainment trust supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp. to determine when and where who shall laugh or weep at what. Scenting the arrival of mammoth theatres, the Fox Film Corp. also has plans afoot-30 first-run theatres, to cost five to twelve millions each and seat four or five thousand people each, with stores and office buildings adjoining, in major U. S. cities...
...that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees Son; tenderly the gates open again...
...Weep not-weep...
What was more salutary, even and for an entirely different class was MacDonald's castigation of the smart set reformers who are fully as hypocritical and shallow as the hardest-drinking dry in the Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which...