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...fairish songs. "Going Home" and "Tripping Round the Corner," and a series of musical interludes between the fast-moving scenes. It is probably because the piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged, ap- pealing as Jess Oakroyd. Valerie Taylor (Peter Ibbetson, Petticoat Influence) does a good job as gallant, eager Miss Trant. Hugh Sinclair plays Inigo Jollifant languidly in soprano. Sample humor: "Oh, you have a nasty mind; you must be on the Vice Committee." "What? A teetotaler? He's a newspaper...
...Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant...
...sooner had the President proclaimed the law than Representatives John Elliott Rankin of Mississippi and Lester Jess Dickinson (Senator-elect) of Iowa flayed it. Dickinson said he would propose increasing the House by at least 27 members, so that no State should lose Representatives. Rankin returned to his old criticism of the Constitution which decrees that representation shall be calculated according to the number of "persons" residing in a locality. He cried: "Is it right to give the alien rum runners and racketeers representation in Congress and take it away from Indiana, Tennessee, the Dakotas, Kentucky and Missouri...
...Troy, N. Y., Judge James F. Brearton dismissed a $3,000 damage suit against Jess Miner who squeezed Mrs. Margaret Pooler until he broke two of her ribs. Mrs. Pooler admitted she had not told Jess Miner she minded being squeezed...
...Jess Sweetser; RobertCharles Benchley ;Donald Ogden Stewart ;Leonard C. Hanna...