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...blame upon: "The inefficiency and disorder of its management, the dependence upon speculative real-estate dealers which hampers it in its purchases of land, the costliness of its methods, the exorbitant rates of its financing, the obstructive tactics of its labor, the complication and stupidity of the building code and taxing laws which beset it." In measuring how far the housing industry has lagged behind the Industrial Revolution, FORTUNE found that whereas the $5,000 automobile of 1911 now sells for $2,000, the $20.000 house of 1911 still sells for $40,000. Pointing out the frontier still...
...Morals For Old (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One thing that helps this picture is the nonchalance with which the characters in it betray the Hays code. The daughter (Margaret Perry) of a respectable household attaches the affections of a married man. Instead of disowning her, her father (Lewis Stone) tries to be helpful. The girl's brother (Robert Young) goes to Paris to study art, leaving his mother (Laura Hope Crews) to pine and die. There are no penalties herein attached to inconsiderateness and immorality. The girl weds her lover tardily divorced-and bears him twins. Her brother, failing...
...much of what they print, however, indicates that they neither aspire to be read as is the Saturday Evening Post, nor do they love filler. Admittedly students indulge in literary activities only for their own pleasure, and if in the long month of January the demand which a strict code of literary merit makes upon the undergraduate editors is so great that it destroys their pleasure in their work, and their standing in the College at the same time, then they are right in refusing to hold to such a standard...
...reaction. Declaring that "postWar German Governments have weakened the morale of the people by a system of State Socialism" including the dole, Chancellor von Papen declared that "this moral degeneration was enhanced by the class struggle with Bolshevism which, like a corroding poison, threatens to destroy our moral code...
...gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework, singing the "Volga Boat Song...