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Chester Byers has been the No. 1 U. S. trick roper for eighteen years. Since he beat Bee Ho Gray, outstanding pre-War roper, in 1916, he has been defeated only twice. Born in Illinois, he learned his profession in Oklahoma, perfected it by copying Will Rogers whom he admired at the St. Louis Fair in 1904. In return for advice about trick roping, he taught Will Rogers how to rope calves, became his close friend. Now 41, Roper Byers makes $15,000 in a good year, hopes to organize a school in Manhattan to teach policemen how to rope...
...autograph of Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway ("ho-de-ho"'), 100 white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his coat, Galloway, whose skin is much lighter than his players', referred to his "boys" as "Mr. Payne. Mr. Maxey. . . ." At the first "Mister" the crowd grumbled. At the second chairs began to fly. Off the stage scuttled resplendent Bandmaster Galloway and his frightened blacks. Up over the platform swarmed resentful whites, brawling, falling over each other until police cleared the Casino...
Pondering these elevating precepts of the New Life Movement recently. General Ho Ying-chin, dignified chief of the Government's Military Affairs Commission at Peiping, asked himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General Ho...
...from happy to receive this petition was President Lin, who does what he is told by Generalissimo Chiang and tries fervently to keep out of military squabbles. Not knowing where General Ho's request for demotion might lead, President Lin replied with a noncommittal letter of effusive commendation which left Ho still a full general. Last week his brilliant subordinate, Lieut.-General Tsow Tsohua, one of China's crack artillery commanders, raised the whole issue again by petitioning to be demoted to the rank of colonel...
...blatant strains of "Minnie the Moocher" faded into memories, there was a bustle backstage and the maestro of the Hi De Ho strode into his dressing room. His valet, a self-styled "secretary," was taken aback to find before him the CRIMSON reporter whom he had hoped to shunt aside for the last three days, with ominous threats and dark leers...