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...popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like, "inside"-makes entertaining reading, is well up to his high professional standard...
Horatio Alger might have used Mr. Hurley's life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with...
...what $1 did before, they also learned that the days of their monopoly were over. Hard-headed and reactionary for the most part, the railroads were literally starved into teaching themselves the rudiments of modern merchandising. Some freight agents may still act as though business were a bore, some conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most...
...must bear in mind," she continued, "That acting on the legitimate stage is every bit as serious work as writing a paper." As a matter of corroborative detail she recounted in experience she once had during a run in Chicago. At a cocktail party a dowager under full sail bore down on her, snorting, "How things have changed. A few years ago it was the theatre and we . . . . ." then swept on her stately way, leaving Miss Rawls to draw her own conclusions...
...trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches bore fruit in three moves characteristic of his methods and purposes. The policy racket (numbers game), by which small New York City betters are mulcted of some $50,000,000 per year (TIME, Jan. 4), was once a Dutch Schultz monopoly. It passed on his death to Luciano and has since...