Word: civically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wrote The Third Degree last May, now points with pride to its indication of the "vice-rackets" and subornation of magistrates currently exposed in New York City. Since the book was published, he has been consulted by President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, has given lectures before several civic bodies on the prevalence and practice of third-degree methods by the police of U. S. cities...
...shoot your way to freedom!" Says he: "Who is this guy Friedman, a lawyer?" The New Yorkers provides a long and entertaining evening. Alison's House. Susan Glaspell has written a play about famed Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86) for Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. Playwright Glaspell's Emily Dickinson is Alison Stanhope, who lived not in Massachusetts but in Iowa. However, both Alison and Emily made their trips to Washington, wrote poems to a hopeless love whose portrait hung above a desk, left memories jealously guarded by their families. The play opens 18 years...
Miss Glaspell's idea is a sound one, but although she has written a sensitive, charming play, it is tedious, overlong. Much of what Playwright Glaspell intends to be an atmosphere of intense nostalgia develops into mere vacuity. As usual, the Civic Repertory Theatre has given the play first-rate production...
...Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner's famed soliloquy on the comedy of human ways. Symphonic...
...industrial life of our Nation. . . . Let me briefly mention some of these changes. . . . There has been a gradual decrease in working hours and a betterment of working conditions, with increases in wages . . . with the consequent benefits in the way of better homes, improved standards of living, better schools, civic improvements. . . . But we had another grave industrial problem growing out of the inventive genius of mankind . . . [which] while lifting burdens from the shoulders of the workers . . . released large numbers . . . who were compelled to seek other employment." Among occupations dangerously overdeveloped he named the bituminous coal, textile and agricultural industries. He wrote...