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...lola, Kan., Ira Sutton, hotel clerk, wrote in succession on his register the names of three salesmen for a refrigerator company, a Mr. Coldsnow, a Mr. Winter, a Mr. Coldiron...
Strike Up the Band will be popularly described in weeks to come as the latest Gershwin musicomedy, which means of course that Brother George Gershwin wrote the music, Brother Ira the words. The brothers are to be heard in their friskier vein-you will discover among their tunes no such aphrodisiacs as "Do It Again" and "The Man I Love." But they make you temporarily forget such omissions with their chipper satires ("Typical Self-Made American," "Mademoiselle from New Rochelle"), and there is one spasm of trumpeting ("I've Got a Crush on You") which threatens the Negro monopoly...
...Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief contributors to a pleasant diversion which must still be mainly credited to the exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts...
...Ira T. Royer, 35, of Manchester, N. J., visited the grave, went home and died of a tumor...
...Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people like Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge, Herbert Livingston Satterlee (Manhattan lawyer), Ira Clifton Copley (Illinois publisher), Mrs. Edith Oliver Rea (Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer), Joseph Pulitzer (whose father was blind), Daniel Willard (B. & O. R. R. president)-contributed handsomely. The Wilmer Institute with its professional staff and equipments outclasses any like organization in the U. S. and ranks equal...