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...about this time, for merit, for publicity, and for fun, people get awards. Last week the following awards made news: In New Hampshire, Colby Junior College elected Wendell L. Willkie honorary king and Katharine Hepburn queen of its Winter Carnival. Marking the Golden Jubilee of his U. S. concert debut, 7,000 musicians, orchestras, schools and clubs throughout the country tuned strings and cleared throats for a week of programs in National Testimonial to hoary Ignace Jan Paderewski. For the New York Newspaper Women's Club, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt awarded $100 each to the Herald Tribune's Tania...
...Victor Chenkin Recital (Columbia: 8 sides; $3.50). U. S. disc debut of a Russian-born singing actor who first appeared in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, has since performed in Paris and Manhattan. In costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
...conservative New England came Rhode Island State, an up-&-coming agricultural college, to make its debut in the Big Time. New York fans had heard fantastic tales about Little Rhody. It boasted the highest-scoring basketball team in the U. S. Its coach Oldtimer Frnak Keaney, taught a razzle-dazzle game based on a simple formula: "Just let the kids shoot baskets- the defense will take care of itself." One of Keaney's boys, StanleyModzelewski, had scored a record 509 points in 22 games last year. Little Rhody had lost only twelve games in the last five years...
...team is composed of five former college basketball players, all of whom have now turned professional, and in their debut on the Cape recently they startled the usually stolid citizenry by blitzkrieging a local five by the score of 109 to 47. "Tonight they hope to return to the scene of their former triumph when they tackle the 208th Division of Camp Edwards in the Barnstable High School Auditorium. Since the soldiers have among their number several first rate hoopmen, a spirited battle seems in prospect...
Since her parents were divorced when Gertie was very small, she was brought up by her mother. At ten she made her stage debut in London in a Christmas pantomime of Babes in the Wood. In another children's play she met a lisping small boy named Noel Coward. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia...