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...Starting from the Henry Street settlement in New York where I met Miss Lillian D. Wald, I encountered such depths of misery, moral and physical, as would appall the most experienced social workers. A great deal of child delinquency is due to the Prohibition law. Parents break the law and are inveterate drinkers. . . . The child becomes accustomed to see the law disobeyed. ... The very base of family life is different in the United States from that in older countries. About half the population have no religious beliefs at all. The home is merely a place for sleeping, or, occasionally, eating...
...four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish in the flesh...
...MacDonald is also noteworthy for her ability as well as for her good looks, and does excellently except at those times when she is inveigled into singing, which spoils the dramatic effect entirely; be it said, however, that her voice completely makes up for any momentary loss of prestige. Lillian Roth, in a role which has excellent possibilities, gives at best an amateurish performance. "The Vagabond King" is not a master-piece, but taken all in all, it will well repay the time, the dollar, and even the car-fare, necessary...
...practice diplomacy with conspicuous success by the methods and almost in the language of Will Rogers. It is history that Mr. Moore once said to Her Majesty, "Gosh, you're beautiful! You remind me more than anybody else I ever knew of my wife [the late, gorgeous Lillian Russell]." In Pittsburgh the last will and testament of the late, great Alexander Pollock Moore (TIME, Feb. 24) was opened last week and found to contain a bequest of $100,000 to the Queen who reminded him of Lillian...
...Alexander Pollock Moore, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Poland; at Los Angeles: of bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting...