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...Producers have often made plans to lend their employes to each other but nothing much has come of it. To facilitate exchange of talent, also of expensive "story material'' bought by producers but never used, an Artists' Service Bureau was formed last week, headed by Col. Jason Joy, Fox studio executive and onetime inter-studio relations supervisor for the Hays organization. Another purpose of the Bureau, to be "owned and operated on a co-operative basis by the industry as a whole," was to make it possible for producers to hire talent without competitive bidding. Actors, writers...
Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...
...Communist rally Leon was there, whooping it up for the Party: but it was unemployed Hank Austin, no Communist, who got beaten up, his spine paralyzed under the hoofs of the mounted police. Jason's carelessly flung cigaret set the tenement afire; when Leon clashed in to warn Helen he found her and her Mexican naked as the truth. Mr. Boardman, who had rented a top-floor room that day to watch his cuckolding, became an unidentified corpse. The demented printer in his basement wrote that Rome was burning. Next morning Mother Volga and Mr. Feibelman raced to their...
...commands: the potent Watch & Ward Society, and the Licensing Division of the City of Boston. The Watch & Ward Society was originally an . . organization headed by clergymen who had the co-operation of booksellers in the suppression of erotica. It reached its greatest effectiveness under the leadership of indomitable Rev. Jason Franklin Chase. Reformer Chase died in 1926. The W. & W. received a serious blow when Bishop William Lawrence and several of its directors resigned as a result of the public exposure of the way the society's agents provocateurs had persuaded the proprietor of Cambridge's famed Dunster...
...famed and glad for their ministrations to men of War. Last week Col. Julian E. Yates of Washington, chief of U. S. Army chaplains, went to hear a Lenten sermon at Washington's First Congregational Church. Minister of that church is rugged, cheery Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, himself a Wartime chaplain, presidential pastor during the Coolidge administration. But Dr. Pierce was away; occupying his pulpit was Dr. Peter Ainslie of the Christian Temple, Baltimore...