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Father Kasaczun, a parish priest of Sugar Notch in the Pennsylvania anthracite district, had previously given the most lurid account of the alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
Lovely Lady. Jesse Lynch Williams wrote a crisp comedy some seasons ago called Why Marry and was applauded mightily. He followed it with one called Why Not, slipping a notch or two down in entertainment values. This, his third, is pretty definitely uninteresting despite his irresistible facility for smart dialog. He deals with the not particularly novel theme of a father and son in pursuit of the same lovely lady. She happens to be a lady not exactly young, nor too immaculate of reputation. Bruce McRae and Elizabeth Risdon contribute generously with deft performances...
Alden Briggs '25, seeded number one, advanced another notch. Today he encounters C. P. Putnam 1G.B. in a match that should go far towards determining the semi-finalist in the upper quarter...
...Family Upstairs. The some-what rough and tumble domesticity of another $40-a-week family is herein chronicled. It is the same type of family that dwelt in the household of The Show-Off, possibly a notch or two more distinguished than the clattering denizens of The Fall Guy. These humans react in primitives. The chief feeling of a visitor within their precincts is laughter at their meddling monotonies tempered with sorrow for their errors...
West Takes Nop-Notch Laurels...