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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—JUNE 22, 1930. Non-Union Labor BY W. E. HILL (Copyright. 1930. by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The lady canvasser. Gert peddies insurance and has no union to tell her about an ecight-hour workday Her friends wish many times durirg the fiscal year that she had le cause Gert believes in high-powered methods of selling. plus follow-up calls, so that like as not this swect girl will drop in at 9 p.m. and again at 5 am. to interest you, if she can, in the twenty-year endowment policy, with the added clause stating that if fortunate enough to get killed in a railway accident a lump sum will be Th T 1 " bel paid extra to said beneficiary, etc., etc The gunman “Two-Gat Lefty” belongs to the One-Eye Gus gang and, while not recog- nized as such, it is almost like a trade union in spots. For instance, when robbing a lmn‘k e 52 3 »od stand- i 7 g those who have paid their bi-yearly dues can to talk to Finnegan about the merger.” Whereupon Mrs. Margin, being a dunful wife, wrote Mrs. huncgan_a sweet little note, and here bump off a cashier or plain clothes cop they are on Saturday afternoon, being shown the view from the cast porch. Pretty soon ‘Mn Finnegan will be taken by Mrs, Margin to see the electric meat chopper and the ice plant with the radio attachment. Then Mr. Finnegan and Mr. Margin will have a heart-to- heart talk having to do with high finance, and in two shakes of a lamb's tail another hig deal will be consummated. This, girls, and boys, is how big deals are put over. INSTIRATIONAL INSTITUTE DEVIEY DOWELYE INSPIRATIONAL REVIVIFIER The Hollywood gag man. Lewis used to free lance among the literati, doing essays for the more erudite The mental practitioner. Mrs. publications on such snappy subjects as “The Nut The social worker. Mrs. Rover R. Splicer, although just The chorus hoys. You'd never imagine that the lovely Maud Dowelye is a practitioner of Coal Situation—Its Bearing on the Proletariat,” *A about the grandest of our high society grande dames, is not boys in this scene from the first act of “Beautiful Baby” had the very latest mental cult—the \jcrl|;n!»|<||\~ idelight on the Boulder Dam Fidu- content with being a mere social figurehead. “I am inter- a care in the world. Could you but know! Two of the boys, Inspirational school. A person ciaries,” or “The Growth of Feminism Among the ested.” says Mrs. Splicer, “primarily in welfare. By welfare Mr. Don Dinsmore (right) and Mr. Ted McNulty (center), with a tendency to liver trouble, Buddhist Monasteries.” But the lure of Hollywood 1 mean welfare in its broadest. noblest sense, both in the are 100 per cent Equity. and the three other boys are not despondency, chronic asthma or was strong, and now Lewis is a gag man for the home and without. And you may quote me in your news- members as yet. You can guess how difficult it is back stage squeamishness can go straight to movie comedies. Here he is on the beach at Santa paper as saying that I believe implicitly in the younger gen- with non-union labor working alongside of union labor. The Mrs. Dowelye and, for three dol- Monica thinking swell ideas and wishing the gag eration. Particularly, I may add, in the plasticity of those stage manager is at his wits’ ends keeping the Equity boys lars down, get the benefit of a re- men could form a union to stem the onrush of boys and girls under 5 years of age.” and the non-union boys from screaming horrible epithets at vivifying treatment. literary white hopes from the East cach other and hurling alarm clocks and cold cream jars at one another! o i R The shopkeeper. Mrs. Cecile Mulroorie, proprietress of “Ye Olde Time The disorganizer. Herman is violently opposed to organized Knick-Knacke Shoppe,” comes from a rare old Southern family. and if a cus- labor, skilled labor, unskilled labor and almost any kind of labor, tomer looks sympathetic. or is silent long enough. Mrs. Mulroonie will tell because it fosters capitalism. During the strike of the artificial how terribly the family down in Dallas, Tex., feels about her being in business fur and feather picce workers Herman was instrumental in start- and so forth. Because the Mulroonies trace their ancestry as far back as the ing a counter strike amoug the strikers for better picketing condi- Goths and the Visigoths, and no one of them ever kept a gifte shoppe before tions among the pickets. That's the kind of a boy Herman is The beauty expert. “Your skin is too sensitive, modom, for an astringent—what your epidermis needs is a jar of our ‘Lady Dainty Skin Invigorator,” which will restore the youthful tissue cells if applied night and morning with onc of our puffy eye patter appliances. And a tube of our Creme de Mud will, if used faithiully, lend brilliancy to the eyes.” So cays Mrs. Fay Kneader, beauty consultant of “Lady Dainty Beauty Salon. Ltd.” After which an underling will give Mrs. Fishbein the usual facial.