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Emma (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This story, of an aging servant who marries her employer, is more lachrymose than the others in which Marie Dressier has played since her rediscovery two years ago. A chronicle of defeated loyalty, it might have been done with less sentimental relish for the misfortunes of the principal character, but it is still an interesting, sometimes powerful picture which deserves the monetary rewards which it will doubtless achieve. Miss Dressler's troubles start when she marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving...
...Seabury report is not a more indictment of New York politicians. To be sure, it shows that Mayor Walker is no altruistic "servant of the people." And it definitely states that the dealings of a great number of the city officials have been shady, if not actually dishonest. It gives conclusive evidence of the misgovernment by which Tammany leaders have amassed fortunes, while candidly it has set forth the relations of certain officers with bootlegging and organized crime. Further, the present financial condition of New York is attributed to "the waste, graft, and corruption with which the city is infested...
Your obedient servant...
Writers of such letters soon receive a note couched in stiffest, most formal Italian, such as Il Duce wrote to Humble Servant Turati...
...markets fill a definite economic need but that they have assumed exaggerated importance in the few years. When the profits from stock sales instead of consumers' demand for goods determine the erection of factories, the government should regulate speculative manipulations. The enaction of legislation that will make speculation the servant and not the ruler of industry will do much to restore sanity to an unbalanced world...