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...Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. It was a good show, far better than that of many academies better known and more widely advertised. Mr. Tiffany himself, looking a little like the Old Man of the Sea, hobbled round the halls and presented the Foundation's gold medal to a dapper young Italian with a very large cravat, Umberto Romano...
...veteran of Blackbirds, is one of the noncombatants. Her singing and dancing is on a par with the entertainment furnished in a good many Harlem resorts. There are only two tunes, "In Missouria" and "Give Me AMan Like That,"which audiences could leave the theatre whistling. But small, dapper Bill Robinson's peerless hoofing and broad smile are worth...
...shone peaceful and bright on a ruined city. The hurricane, tearing inland across the island broke its force against the rugged mountains separating Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic from French-speaking Haiti. In Santo Domingo city 1,500 were killed, 5,000 were injured, 30,000 homeless and destitute. Dapper General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who has only been president of the Dominican Republic 19 days found the presidential palace crashing about his ears. Almost before the wind stopped whistling he was in the streets directing army and police relief operations. To Washington he sent a pathetic message...
Interested spectators during the week-long convention were dapper Bill Robinson, Negro, who at 52 wears rakishly the undisputed crown of king of all living tap-dancers; Ziegfeld's Harriet Hoctor, S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, famed Balletman Chester Hale, Dancers Patricia Bowman, Grace Dufay, Evelyn La Tour, Ramon & Rosita, Adelaide Hall...
...lectureships, scholarships at universities throughout the country. Two-thirds of the germ landed at Harvard where instructors and graduate students from 20 U. S. colleges will attend lectures in the new Fogg Art Museum given by bushy-mustached George Harold Edgell, dean of the Harvard School of Architecture and dapper Paul Joseph Sachs, associate director of the Fogg Museum, brother of Banker Walter Edward (Goldman) Sachs...