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During the World War, Commander Stephen King-Hall, R. N., served in the Royal Navy. His ship engaged in sharp combat at Jutland, and it is upon his personal experiences in that battle that the action of the second act is based. He also supervised the London production of the play, and the club officers are consulting him for realistic details of setting and action...
Remedial Loan Societies. Semi-eleemosynary, these societies sprang up in great numbers around 1915, backed by philanthropists who wished to combat usury. They have a $60,000,000-per-year volume. Leader is Provident Loan Society of New York, doing 66% of the business. Last week Provident reported it had made 530,000 loans involving $41,000,000 last year...
Company Loans. Large and progressive companies have started to formulate definite policies regarding loans to em-ployes at low rates of interest. The business is thought to run at over $20,000,000- per-year and is an effective means to combat usurers and "salary-buyers...
...about the discussion, however, was a point upon which no comment was made. American culture, in its obnoxious manifestations particularly, was treated as something on another continent, separated from Europe by a spiritual as well as by a physical ocean. The French were asked what could be done to combat the political and intellectual imperialism--of America. In that imperialism they implied all the objectionable features of a highly industrialized civilization...
...tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with her son. Then the family is reunited by the arbitration of a friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective most of the time, paced exactly...