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This duty will fall on the shoulders of Dick Fletcher and Charley Kollinites, the Crimson's stellar guards who have been bearing the brunt of both attack and defense since bad luck jumped up and bit the Feslermen some weeks ago. Hopes are entertained that Jack Mason, Sophomore forward who has shown notable improvement, will be able to dent the Gothamite's iron-clad defense for some few tallies...
...once Variety's prognostication was wholly wrong. For producer and author The Green Pastures proved not only an artistic but a financial Heaven on earth. Marc Connelly had put a little bit of everything dramatically good into his white man's idea of a black man's idea of the Bible stories. Audiences split their sides laughing at the play's account of Genesis, in which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators...
Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
...rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered...
...flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability to Dinsmore's attacks is perceptibly on the wane and when the escape ends in a circuitous return to the radio hut she is easily persuaded that it's a bit extreme to marry Sir James merely because he happened to be around when she chose to do a bit of drowning in Naples. Things are temporarily complicated by the arrival of Clara Wilson, Dinsmore's erstwhile fiancee, but her marital designs are quickly shifted to Sir James and all concludes in highly satisfactory...