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...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
...Doug Anderson led the scoring brigade in the afternoon's frolic by netting two points apiece. with the two scores from the sticks of Ed Ed-munds and Jess Willard the grand total was brought to six. Brooks paced the Yale scorers with three tallies to his credit while Dell pushed in the only other Bulldog counter to pass goalie George Hanford...
...Mickey's coetanes are equally fond of him. It is no secret that between Master Rooney and Master Jackie Cooper (another virtuoso of swing) no love is lost. When Dead End Kids Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell got to Hollywood, both offered to fight Mickey immediately...
Mitchell's first authoring job was a collaboration with Lee Tracy, who had an idea for a play, could not get it beyond Act I. The result was Glory Hallelujah, the flop that introduced Tracy to Broad way. Next Tom Mitchell dramatized Novelist Floyd Dell's Little Accident, a hit, which Mitchell directed and acted in. He also wrote a play of his own, Cloudy With Showers, bought and shelved by Paramount. By the time he closed his stage career by going to Hollywood to play in Lost Horizon (1936), Tom Mitchell had played more than...
Died. Ethel May Dell, fiftyish, prolific author of 16 super-saccharine best-selling novels (Greatheart, The Hundredth Chance, The Lamp in the Desert, etc.); in Hertford, England...