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...Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time...
...nuisance and scornfully called kibitzers (Yiddish colloquial term). Not so were spectators at a game of contract bridge played last week in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt by four experts, under the auspices of the recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators, who had paid $1 each to be admitted, sat in comfortable chairs, watched the play on a Scoreboard erected near the bridge table...
Oliver Hardy's father was an Atlanta, Ga. politician. Oliver was graduated from the University of Georgia Law School but preferred to sing for his living. He went into cinema from vaudeville, joined the Hal Roach (Our Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...
Raisa sings some 80 roles; she began her career by studying coloratura as well as dramatic parts. Her favorites are Norma and Aida (she feels the "terrible oppression" they suffered), Rachel in Halévy's La Juive ("It is of my own land . . . my race, which in Poland suffered inconceivable persecutions") and Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna ("a vamp type . . . brilliant temperament of a feminine mind"). In 1924 Arturo Toscanini, then director of La Scala in Milan, offered her the leading soprano role in the world premiere of Arrigo Boito's posthumous Nerone. Regretfully...
...violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...