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Pursued by panting newsfolk of normal size who could barely keep up with his towering strides, the fifth son of the 26th Earl of Crawford loped around to a side door of the British Foreign Office last week...
Sportsmans Mutual premiums (starting at $30 for a $500 reimbursement policy) are a little higher than most accident rates; they cover mishaps outside the sporting field as well as in it. At present most policy holders, like Crawford Burton, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup who insisted on having his policy (No. 1) printed in gold, are foxhunters, steeplechasers, poloists. Sportsmans Mutual hopes that its special $500 policy which costs $10 will soon be standard equipment for U. S. footballers, hockeyists et al. in all secondary schools and universities. Most dangerous school sport, shown by a preliminary survey made...
...tennis news from Melbourne, particularly the news that concerned Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week...
...casting of The Son-Daughter, originally listed as a Joan Crawford picture, sounds like a triumph of mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings...
...Jack Crawford, No. 1 tennist of Australia: the championship of Victoria 1-6. 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the final against U. S. Champion Ellsworth Vines; on an exhaustingly hot day at Melbourne...