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...First National). Written by a New York Sun theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit...
Last week the Southern Cross VI was hobbling along near Aneityum in the New Hebrides (midway between Australia and the Fijis). A sudden squall blew up. dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding...
...Whatever the difficulties abroad may be, relief does not sink to so low a scale. If we are going to preserve the self respect and sense of credit obligation of the unemployed in the United States, we must start now to prepare for the future by introducing unemployment insurance and supplementing it when necessary by regular financial assistance. The sooner the various states adopt unemployment insurance, the better...
...country affords me the deep satisfaction of coming home to vote, amongst my neighbors and friends. . . . I have never gone so far away nor remained so long, except during the great War and the Presidency, that the homing instinct has not carried me back every year to sink more deeply the roots of my being in the fertile soil of California's spiritual and cultural life. . . . When. sooner or later, the time arrives which permits me to do so, I propose to return to my home at Palo Alto to live with my fellow Cailfornians...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...