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Stage Struck. Gloria Swanson has hit on a primitive comedy, reminiscent of her early Mack Sennett days, that makes magnificent entertainment. She is a waitress; she aspires to the stage; she finally gets a job on a Mississippi show boat; is exceptionally inept; retires happily to a lunch-wagon for life. The unusual atmosphere, the frequent use of slapstick unabashed, and the brilliant ability of the star combine comfortably for genuine amusement...
...reason that a common laborer works is to earn money," declared Whiting Williams, business man who has lived for years as a laborer, at Phillips Brooks House last evening. "There is a spiritual factor: every worker maintains his standing as a man among men by the nature of his job, by his standing as a craftsman among craftsmen, irrespective of the money return "which the job brings...
...explaining what he meant by the standard of the job as being more important than the amount of money earned, Mr. Williams described his first job as a laborer. He was shovelling bricks, and had been one of the shovelling, gang for three weeks when the boss asked him if he would like to join the mill-rake gang...
...only got a raise of two cents an hour by the transfer; yet when my former companions saw me--with tools--a huge wrench and an oil can--my social standing was "elevated amazingly." Mr. Williams also told the story of a carpenter who went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles...
This pride in work, Mr. Williams asserted, is one of two vital factors in the labor problem. The other is the colossal importance, to the unskilled laborer, of obtaining a daily job. Mr. Williams described his experiences as one of the mass of unemployed whose life seemed worthless because there was no place for them to use their powers...