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Captured three days later was 64-year-old Convict Earl Thayer, mail robber. He had escaped alone during the confusion...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...
...following resolution was passed unanimously, "In view of the report recently published in the press it is resolved that the Naval Academy Graduates' Association of Boston condemns any movement toward the practice of soliciting candidates for the Naval Academy on the basis of athletic ability." Very truly yours, Earl M. Major, Secretary. by direction
...recall the Earl Carroll trial some time ago. The State spent much money and time trying to convince a jury that one Faith Bacon was inadequately clothed. I felt the police department had been inefficient. The extent of Miss Bacon's drapings could have been photographed and all the verbal testimony rendered unnecessary. For that reason I selected soon after a nearby theatre, the Columbia (burlesque) and took several shots, one of which is accompanying this letter. It is convincing, I believe, as to the extent of the lady's trappings or lack of them. All censors should...
...Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...