AMUSEMENTS

AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley THE QUEEN'S RETURN With all the glamor of a new theatre In her own name, Ethel Barrymore has come back, the first of her family for several...

...Prior to thac M^ss \, arue and Mr...
...They just loved to see their names in print, especially when they appeared side by side with the names of one of the four hundred...
...In a recent letter to Judge Griffin, who sentenced Mconey to death in 1918 but who has since then constantly asserted that Mooney was framed, the governor states he resents implications of political cowardice in his conduct of the case, and that such charges won't help Mooney any...
...for his wages...
...Cannon was loud In his protest against the conduct of his former cronies but as he and his associates had as members of the party disturbed and broken up non-Communist meetings outsiders have little sympathy for him...
...They might have talked less about that "career" for working women had they tried to earn their living In that way I | Refused Jobs...
...They are Joined overhead by another black screen that shuts off the entire celling and slopes down to meet the top of the stage arch...
...Miss Warde recently closed to "The Lady Lies" and Mr...
...Fannie Cohen of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and Abraham Lefkowltz of the Teachers' Union, who are directors of Brookwood, also took up the cudgels...
...An investigation was suggested, the members of the National Woman's Party did not like that suggestion...
...The Communist movement in Canada is also having a similar fight and it is accompanied with expulsions...
...When facts failed them, fiction did just as well —It got them onto the front page of the newspapers...
...When she turns upon the reluctant knight and accuses him of assault, he tells the truth and shames the female, until the case against him is dismissed...
...But mainly it is the classification of "women's Jobs" that is rooted in the minds of men-employers, employees and the public, too...
...who have spent more than -half a century trying to Improve the economic and political status of the wage earning women...
...It was in 1916 at the Wharf Theatre to Province town, Mass., where the present Provincetown Playhouse had its beginning, and the play was "Bound East for Cardiff...
...It was the first opportunity that A. J. Muste, dean of Brookwood Labor College, has had to present in public his reply to the charges made by American Federation of Labor officials at the New Orleans Convention last month...
...He cited the preamble of the A. F. of L. to show that the class struggle Is explicitly Tecognlzed there...
...He cited the attack of the "Dally Worker" and the "Freiheit," Communist organs, upon him and Brookwood...
...Instead 'Mr...
...Miss Smith's Analysis In the December Bulletin of the Women's Trade Union League, Miss Ethel Smith, for years Legislative representative of the National Women's Trade Union League, gives a fine analysis of the Bureau's findings...
...The Women's Bureau has analyzed these laws, has studied their history and scope, along with the story of women's economic advanoe...
...AMUSEMENTS The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley THE QUEEN'S RETURN With all the glamor of a new theatre In her own name, Ethel Barrymore has come back, the first of her family for several seasons...
...the second,—weU, If he were InteUigent, he would resemble the chauffeur of Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman...
...A police alarm brought the riot squad and v.ien they arrived the h3ll was in an uproar...
...Speaking before the conference of the League for Industrial Democracy, he said that the Commission had not yet investigated the propaganda work in the schools of many New York State companies, and that Mr...
...In conclusion, he asked that Brookwood be given Justice...
...S. Glencalm...
...whose chance for "achieving a career" is likely as mine to be appointed director of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan...
...He simply wanted to defend Brookwood whose faculty were all members of « local representedjg the New York CentratTades and Labor Council...
...The walls of the theatre are parallel, but he win not see them, for, placed out from each of them, Is a black screen that spans the entire hail, running at an angle to meet j the stage arch...
...As soon as he is enough rested from the task of re-staging the Rostand heroic comedy, Walter Hampden wfii put into rehearsal a play by Jacinto Benevente, the foremost contemporary dramatist of Spain, or Anton Chekov's "Uncle Vanya...
...For years he had been an officer of the American Federation of Teachers...
...In general, that the states where women's employment is most highly regulated by law are the states where women have been gaining most rapidly in numbers employed, and have gained proportionally more than men...
...Potiphar (Countess of Aylesbrough) ar as ardent a lot of scandal-mongers as any social level supplies...
...THE WOMAN SOCIALIST A department of ncas and z'ie-a-s of particular interest to the women of the Socialist Movement...
...Crane...
...He directed the first O'Neill play that was eve* produced...
...John Wray, who plays the role Of Joe Privldi, the deep-eye villain of "Tin Pan AUey," now at the RepubUc Theatre, has just completed the draft of a new play of Broadway and show business as yet untitled...
...A commissioner as distinctly on record as giving the companies a blank cheque approval as Mr...
...In the end It was agreed that the Women's Bureau of the Federal Labor Department undertake the investigation...
...We conferred with them (when they had the courage to appear and argue with us) on the particular phases of their platform which we would be wilting to support, if they-would leave legislation dealing with _ihe conditions of the wage earning women to these who have themselves gone through the mill, and were the first to struggle for the rights of their fellow women workers...
...The whole Interior architecture of the house can be transformed in a flash—from, say, a Gothic cathedral to a night club, or whatever other setting is appropriate to the picture being shown...
...The police surrounded th^ building and cut off all means of escape...
...Miss Yurka has been working on the book for a year...
...He did not know whether the delegates were radical but if they did not stand for better social order as he did, then they were not...
...If the vote had been taken that evening...
...by fighting not for them but with them in their dally battles against low wages and Jong hours, yes, and against sex discrimination, by demanding and fighting (and won through our own efforts) for equal P«y for equal work...
...It is bad enough to have all the propaganda activities of the New York Edison and Consolidated Gas left undiscovered without having the Investigation halted which would bring out how regulation is being defeated at every turn...
...The work of Peggy Wood at the close of Act I Is unforgettable to its poignancy...
...The expelled Cannon faction have established an organ of their own but they labor under the disadvantage of not having access to the finances of the ruling executive in Moscow...
...S. Glencalm" at the Province town Playhouse...
...The war has extended to every country where there Is any movement and it grows out of a division into Stalinites and Trotskyltes...
...Or, no matter how capable the woman, or how unprejudiced the employer, she may not be accepted if he thinks customers, or the community will object to women on such a job...
...This was the signal for the regular faction to again shout Cr.nnon down and the bedlam was louder than ever...
...Kiesler calls the "screenoscope...
...Referring to the charge that he was • radical, Muste defended his position eloquently...
...But these are mere details...
...Mainly, it Is the fact that women can be hired "cheaper" than men...
...In another letter he said he does not agree with Mooney's feeling that applying for a parole is an acknowledgment of guilt...
...In a letter to Fremont Older, veteran newspaper defender of Mooney, Gov...
...Employers act accordingly...
...Our position is justified...
...I In addition to the De Packh Symphonv I Ensemble, the concert at Carnegie Hall will Include Paul Althouse, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
...The Great Cinema Murder," an alltalking mystery story, will be made by Universal, Carl Laemmle, president said...
...He expressed himself as not yet convinced of Mocney's Innocence, and Implied that nothing would be gained by bombarding him with letters and petitions until he is ready to take up the matter...
...Sinnegan declared In his report that the A. F. of L. oflBcials had shown "conclusively" that Brookwood was "working against the American Federation of Labor...
...The misconception about the convention arose from a studentmember of the miner's union, who, in order to protect himself In his organization, had made publlo statements which were contrary to his own belief as explained In a private letter that Muste read to the delegates...
...The students who had gone to the Pittsburgh convention had gcr.e contrary to the wishes of the Brookwood faculty...
...One man, who is a "gentleman...
...Motion pictures at last are to employ regularly the services of a psychologist...
...The Messrs...
...ames P. Cannon, leader of the expelled insurgent faction, had been announced to speak in the Labor Lyceum and about 200 Communists attended...
...Those phrases did not apply to the women who work in foundries, in the stock yards, and in Southern mills...
...I know no more sensitive work than his among the actors of this generation...
...And that was what .they were after—most of them anyway...
...Correspondingly, it is in the south, where industry is least regulated by laws for women that men have retained a proportional lead over women...
...Chairman Mulholland With more than usual efficiency rushed through the motion to adopt the report of the delegate...
...Miss Marracci sings two operatic arias of the period and character of the screen production, the cast of which Includes Conrad Veidt, Una Haid and Paul Wegener...
...Tom Mooney, universally believed innocent of the Preparedness Day explosion, must rot in San Quentln while Gov...
...In part she writes: "According to the advance sheets of this report, the findings of a two years' Investigation show that labor laws for women have raised Industrial standards for millions of women, and likewise for many men...
...The one being built here Is of the last named type, designed, as its name Implies, to solve the problems of sound, and also to increase the scene surface and to permit instantaneous change of the interior of the theatre to suit whatever film Is being played...
...Ottinger is, could do much to halt, delay and frustrate such an investigation...
...The story, by Leonard Fields, Eastern scenario editor, and adapted by Win Chappel, is based on a murder occurring on a talking picture set...
...Something else determines the division of labor between men and women in industry...
...Alving in "Ghosts," and Hedda In "Hedda Gabler...
...Yet neitaer acts like a gentleman...
...About 3,000,000 women are directly affected by the labor laws for women, some types of which are found on the statute books of every state in the union, covering almost exclusively industrial occupation...
...Details, however, have been learned from Frederick Kiesler, the architect and stage designer, formerly with the International Theatre Exposition, who is directing the construction of this theatre and is responsible for its many innovations...
...Decision On Tom Mooney This Summer California Executive Refuses To Be Rushed By Pleas For Frame-Up Victims, He Tells Older CACRAMENTO, Cal...
...Have any of their spokesmen ever spent ten hours or more in a foundry or in the stock yards—knee deep in blood...
...while she spells "j..u..b" the emotion rises (as in a hush the last, pure note of a violin) to so high a pitch as to throb beyond the reach of our senses...
...The chief thing is not to "interfere with ambitious women by reducing their working hours...
...Esther Dale, the noted soprano, who appeared with Maurice Ravel when he conducted several concerts here last season, and other weU known singers...
...That is the plain, unvarnished, regrettable and unpalatable truth of the matter...
...Have they ever tried the cotton mill In the summer months...
...Shubert have added the new Shubert-Jamaica Theatre, 165th street and Jamaica avenue, to their long chain of playhouses, and it wui open on i Monday evening, December 31, with the musical comedy, "Just a Minute...
...Sister Gracla lectures the orphanage boys as though they were solemn adults...
...It is a moment of great joy welling over deep disappointment...
...He Is to devote hfansstt to every branch of the business, from the purchase of stories to the solving of sales problems...
...Only Delegate Peabody of the machinists spoke for the opposition...
...Kenneth McKenna, in every tone and gesture, shows a full understanding and a complete control of the rich personality he represents...
...or if he thinks the entrance of women will cause dissatisfaction and thence disturbed morale of the men on his force —for workmen naturally fear the competition of women...
...He took great pains to answer the charge that students of Brookwood had supported the Save-the-Unlon movement In the miner's union...
...They have often directly increased the number of „obs for women...
...Especially have they shortened the hours and eliminated overtime for women and also for men...
...and when the opportunity to deliver a sermon is given bun, he takes it Instead of his pay...
...The dialogue, and the little pauses of understanding between the words, are among the most sensitive contributions to current theatre...
...Finally, when they found that the labor movement as a whole, and organizations such as the League of Women Voters, were against their program and challenging the sincerity of their many misleading statements (and I could fill a bcok with them...
...After all, why should the members of the National Woman's Party understand the meaning of the shorter work-day for those wh...
...William M. Marston, psychologist and lecturer in psychology at Columbia University and New York University, has just been placed under contract by Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures Corporation...
...E. J. Ballantlne is not only directing the present revival, but also playing the part of "Smitty," the part he played to the 1924 production...
...In a war film, for instance, this theatre would allow him to see long lines of trucks, as in "The Big Parade," running down the screens at his side and airplanes flying over his head on the ceiling screen while the personal drama was being enacted on the saucer screen on the stage...
...Of course, it Is also true that other factors enter into this question of opportunity, sometimes more heavily, but usually less...
...behind it, we feel that even this Joy will be sorely tested...
...Not Opposed to Entire Program At first, we of the trpde union movenjent, tried to make them understand that we are not opposed to their program as a whole If they will keeo their hands 'and their tongues) off legislative measures concerning working women...
...FP...
...The woman applicant may not rret the job if it Is not recognized as a "woman's job"—one that women have always done, In the textile or sewing trades, for example, or in stores, restaurants, laundries, or kitchens...
...Young of California takes his time to look Into the case...
...There were more than 100 other students whose opinions might be cited as decidedly favorable to Brookwood...
...Space does not permit to go Into this...
...It meant so much to be near (in print) to these women who are financially able to commute to Europe for purposes of learning all there is to know about the women's movement...
...The Workers (Communist) Party factional war has continued end exsumed many forms since the ycir 1S21 wltan the party was organized but the present war is the first that has led to many expulsions throughout the country and the organization of the rebels into a faction to fight the regulars who have the support of Moscow...
...The new house, with a seating capacity of 1,839, will book exclusively legitimate attractions...
...This one-act play is now a part of "S...
...Then he proves he is what he is by doing what only an Englishman would do: he returns to Maid ham Towers (is there any symbolism to that name...
...The whole, funnel-like theatre, Is thus one huge four-sided screen...
...For that evening they will be rei placed In "White Lilacs" by the De Packff j London Ensemble, which will accompany ! the Chopin operetta in London early next ' year...
...positions...
...To the tired girl, it matters but little how it is done, as long as the hours eve cut down from an unlimited number to 60 a week, then to 55, then to 50, then to 43 and then, well, it Is a matter <Jf a few years only when there will not be enough material to write another book on the "Long Day...
...We knew our ground...
...He reminded his hearers that* souring occurred in every school...
...Marsden played opposite each other to "The Goose Hangs High...
...as it is, he treats the woman as he should through sheer British bull-headedness...
...Blanche Yurka, st-r of Ibsen's "The Wild Duck," at the 4Cth Street Theatre, Is completing a book called "Some Women of Ibsen," which will be published to the spring...
...The volume win contain studies of GIna to "The Wild Duck," Rebecca West In "Rosmersholm," EH 11 da in "The Lady from the Sea," Nora in "A Dollys House," Mrs...
...which is a device providing new openings for the screen, eliminating the pro: cenlum and the usual curtains...
...Marsden played the recalcitrant lover to "Behold the Bridegroom'' ard opoosl.e Margaret Lawrence to "The Behavior of Mrs...
...NEW CINEMA A bewildering new moving picture theatre is nearlng completion at 52 West Eighth street and is to be opened early in January by the Film Arts Guild, to be known as the Film Guild Cinema...
...who championed their cause not with a lot of bunk but by organizing them into unions...
...They also pay accordingly, and great hosts of unorganized women accept that pay...
...We knew that their idle chayer about "freedom from protection...
...The ending has been made more definite, but without (as I feared) losing it* power...
...Kiesler has created three distinct types of moving picture theatres which he calls the "ray," the "double cone" and the "megaphone...
...These are the things, not laws limiting hours of work or regulating conditions of work, that determine the kinds and numbers of Jobs that industry offers to ; "The question comes, then, on the efi feet el labor laws which apply to women only, in a world where men and women are on unequal footing because they are unequal in bargaining power...
...He pointed out that the statements of students used at the A. F. of L. convention hid come from persons who had soured on Brookwood...
...one who is a chauffeur...
...Recent issues of the English organ of the party in New York have been filled with pages of dreary controversy, taking the form of long "theses," counter "theses," broadcasts, proclamations and ultimatums to which Moscow officials themselves have added a liberal number...
...It Is a moment of genius...
...Young also said: "A governor doesn't like to be pushed into a thing that he may decide is right, and he can't afford to allow himself to be pushed Into a thing that he may find is wrong...
...By such action the A. F. of L. places itself in the same class with those benighted bigots of Arkansas who have recently voted a constitutional amendment in that state making the teaching of evolution in any state-supported Institution a crime...
...Clad in the costume of the title role...
...It finds...
...We shall watch with interest the development of these devices...
...Latest Communist Split Brings Riot When Expelled Leader Speaks in New Haven (By a New Leader Correspondent) NEW HAVEN.—The factional war in the Workers (Communist) Party broke into a riot between the factions at a mass meeting in New Haven on Friday of last week when the police reserves of the city were called oat...
...Upton Sinclair's "Singing Jailbirds...
...The spectator In this theatre—it will seat 500, an on the same plane sloping down to the stage—will find himself in a hall resembling the inside of an ordinary camera with the bellows extended...
...The findIngs are exactly as we thought they would be...
...Machold, former president of the Northeastern, who recommended Mr...
...Mooney started his 13th year in prison last summer...
...Rehearsals are under the direction of Richard Boleslavsky...
...When asked to serve on the committee they presented terms which would have turned the investigation into a huge Joke...
...That voice we know SO well, that mobile face (its contours unfortunately hidden in a nun's hood), that Imposing bearing, now humble yet authoritative in a sister's garb, bring back rich memories of the theatre...
...It is only the sense of goodness that wells from the essential being of Miss Barrymore that makes us believe one can use such methods of organization and discipline as here we watch, and still be loved...
...The National Woman's Party did not know (or did not give a d- if they did) what we had to endure before our hours were shortened, whether through the unions or through an act cf the legislature...
...The first behaves like a cad...
...When they had returned a detailed analysis was made at the schcol of the occurrences at that convention and the general run of opinion both of the students who had gone to Pittsburgh and those who had not was unfavorable...
...The friends of Mrs...
...this theatre, it is promised, among other things that: Films can be projected simultaneously on four screens, three of which are black...
...Kiesler says, can be thrown on all four screens at once so that the spectators themselves are suddenly and Uterally "Immersed" in the drama that Is being played...
...It is 55 feet long, 38 feet 6 inches wide at the back, and 27 feet 6 Inches wide at the stage arch...
...The designer of this unique cinema, the first of Its kind in the world, as well as Symon Gould, the director of the Film Arts Guild and the founder of the little* cinema movement in America, are so confident that it will mark...
...This occurence was in connection with the attack made on Brookwood Labor college in this country...
...they give her a true Horatio Alger response, and go to bed consoled—forgetting, starved though they are, to eat their supperl ON YOUR "MUST" LIST Even In the holiday crowding, I want to take time again to tell you to go and see "A Play Without a Name," at the Booth...
...and interfering with the career of women" did not apply to the laundry workers toiling, even today, for twelve and fourteen dollars a week...
...A second visit intensified my delight in this rare play, which a mature, intelligent being can enjoy without moving back toward the exaggerated emotions of adolescence or the feeble understanding of childhood...
...And all because the college had had the temerity to criticize the policies of the A. F. of L. In some particulars while at the same time presenting all phases of social, economic and political subjects in the spirit of scientific investigation...
...Kiesler has substituted a "cameraeye" opening and also "diaphragmatic" openings...
...Its most prominent leader has been expelled together with some others...
...S. Glencalm" Is scheduled for January 1st...
...by the working women, the employers refuse them jobs...
...N. Y. Labor Hears Muste On Charges Tells Central Trades Council That A. F. of L. Charges Are Lin founded T> ROOKWOOD won a moral victory at the New York Central Trades and Labor Council on December 20...
...The question of Brookwood came up Incidentally es a part of the report of Charles F. Sinnegan...
...Another alarm brought the police again to the scene and the "comrades" were again separated...
...There was one time, however, when we in the women's trade union movement knew we were right, when we fought the members of the National Women's Party...
...The fighting "comrades" were quieted wlien Cannon again tried to orate...
...They were so sorry for the "poor working girl" who has to suffer from the prtection our governments bestowed upon her...
...The Roxy Theatre continues for a second week the movietone "Prep and Pep" presented by William Fox and the Roxy ensemble of 350 artists rounds out an interesting progrssa...
...In a movie theatre architecture, an epoch similar to that introduced by the perfection of sound-synchronizing apparatus, that they have been guarding their secrets closely...
...delegate of the New York Central Trades to the A. F. of L. convention...
...The picture, Mr...
...Lincoln, Neb., Labor Paper Rebukes A. F. L. On Brookwood (By a New Leader Correspondent* SIOUX CITY, Iowa.—The "Unionist and Public Forum" of this city reprints a leading editorial from the "Nebraska Craftsman," organ of the Central Labor Union of Lincoln, Neb., which shows some resentment in the West against the A. F. of L. condemnation of Professor John Dewey and Brookwood Labor College...
...Brookwood might have been vindicated...
...The seduction scene makes us wonder whether the chauffeur is quite what a man should be, to his coldness to the face of Frances Carson's efforts...
...He win be facing, as the photographic film does, the camera's shutter...
...More important is the investigation of the Intercompany transactions of the power industry which is now going on, and which many companies located in New York City would give a lot of money to have stopped...
...He considered himself a good unionist and a friend of the American Federation of Labor...
...The stage itself has a completely new form, which Mr...
...The author, formerly a court and police reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle, has Included many incidents to the story recall_d from his newspaper days...
...Is the American Federation of Labor afraid of free criticism...
...Muste began by stating that he was not anxious to embarrass the Central body...
...IN BRIEF E. J. Ballantlne is directing the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "S...
...Their statements were challenged at a conference called by the Women's Bureau of the Federal Department of Labor in Washington some two years ago...
...t" ey issued a proclamation to the people, and especially to the legislators of America, that because of the protective legislation now enjoyed (enjoyed, mind you...
...Our Position Justified By Pauline M. Newman THERE are times when we entertain a moment of doubt...
...Production is planned for January, according to information received from Belgium today...
...GENTLEMEN ALL j "Potiphar's Wife," at the new Craig ] Theatre, to addition to its pure enter - | talnment, which Is swift and valid enough [to make us wish it had the deftness of Oscar Wilde, instead of the rather flat dialogue of E. C. Mlddleton, raises an | Interesting question of gentlemanly tactics...
...which is now being received with enthusiasm by New Playwrights Theatre audiences at the Provincetown Playhouse, will be produced shortly by the Proletarian Theatre in Brussels...
...We knew we were right...
...Marston's title win be the Director of the Public Service Bureau, creating an entirely new department for the purpose of applying psychology to every branch of the activities of Universal Pictures Corporation...
...As to the accusation that Brookwood Is anti-religious, he stated that he was still a minister in good standing...
...The Bureau had previously found that it is in the states where hours j are least regulated by laws that worn- i en's wages are lowest...
...Young writes that he will not complete examination of the record until after the 1P29 session of the Legislature...
...But the members of the National Woman's Party persisted in talking, declaring, and proclaiming, though never with a knowledge of what they were talking about, especially when they became the champions of the working women...
...He was not speaking as a Communist...
...It was after that that A. J. Muste and the other friends of Brookwood were given an opportunity to defend themselves and the institution they represented...
...The police dispersed the crowd-when it became evident that the meeting could not proceed without a row...
...j The De Packh Symphony Ensemble, ; now playing with "White Lilacs" at Jol! son's Theatre, will give a concert at CarI negie HaU on New Year's Eve, December 131...
...Unfortunately, all the skill of the Granville barkers could not make a play of G. M. Sierra's "The Kingdom of Go d." The three successive playlets, rather, dramatic descriptions—of an old men's home, a maternity home, and an orphanage—have vivid moments, but reveal, even in the stellar part, a feeble and antiquated attitude toward life...
...At the recent convention of tliis organization held In New Orleans, the convention went so far as to call John Dewey, America's recognized greatest educator, a Communist, and to expunge from the records of the convention proceedings all references to him that had been made...
...it asks, and, In part, continues: "For some time past it has been the habit in America to pin the tag of Communism on anyone who voices opinions In any way contrary to orthodox and conventional views in economics or politics, and now officials of the A. F. of L. in their anxiety to appear "respectable" are following the example in this respect set by every reactionary interest in the land...
...to the candy workers whose weekly pay is ten or twelve dollars a week...
...There is much I want to say, but I must content myself with a word of the acting...
...The title of the new play by Walter Ferris and Easfl IJithbone in which Brady and Wiman are to present the latter, has been changed from "Render Unto Caesar" to ."Judas...
...Matthew Woll, who in addition to being a member of the Executive Committee of the A. F. of L., is also an officer in the National Civic Federation, most of the members of which are opponents of organized labor, led the attack on Brookwood College, which resulted in the convention voting to outlaw this Institution, and the recommending that all affiliated unions withdraw support...
...He says he will go into the case in detail on his next vacation...
...actually work...
...Most intelligent and sympathetic acting, in an intelligent and moving play—so sound, one almost forgets it has Its "hot" sex episode...
...Potiphar's wife, of course, is a sweet young thing whose elderly husband leaves her to seek elsewhere the vibrant responses her young, healthy being craves...
...Shirley Warde and John Marsden will replace Kay Strozzi and Clark Gable when "House Unguarded," the HollisterLonergan play which Bernard Steele is producing, reaches New York during the week of Dec...
...In Fear Ottinger Will Block Power Inquiry That the suggested appointment of Albert Ottinger to the Federal Trade Commission is for the purpose of stopping the inquiry into the financial dealings of the power industry was discussed Friday morning by Stephen Raushenbush, author of "Power Control" and secretary of the National Committee on Coal and Power...
...The Little Carnegie Playhouse is presenting Livia Marracci, young ItalianAmerican concert soprano, with the first American showing of the European photoplay spectacle, "Lucretia Borgia," which had its premiere at a special performance last Friday night (December 21...
...Cannon's appearance on the platform was the beginning of the "proletarian struggle...
...Another possibility claimed for the new theatre Is that, by throwing slides on the three black screens, the architecture of the house can be transformed in the twinkUng of an eye into the appropriate setting for the drama that is being concentrated on the white screen...
...The friends of Brookwood did not want to put the matter to a vote because they admitted that the Central Trades had better conform with the position taken by the A. F. of L. convention, implying that its charter would be endangered...
...These two black screens are 55 feet long and 20 feet high...
...They were sure that a tremendous number of women have lost their jobs because there were laws in some states prohibiting women to work nine or ten hours a day...
...Mooney holds that only a full pardon will compensate him for what he has unjustly endured...
...Ottinger for the post, was naturally eager to have this soft pedalled...

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