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...Roosevelt attended a dinner of the Fly Club (Harvardese for Alpha Delta Phi of which it was once a chapter*) was in 1929 when as Governor of New York, celebrating his 25th Harvard reunion, he sat down and pounded the piano for his fellow Flies and allowed them to kid him about that great political flop, the Democratic Party. Last week he was there not to be kidded, but to celebrate, to witness the initiation of Son Franklin Jr. into the club...
Recommended for a valor medal in Michigan was Corporal Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"),* tricky oldtime middle-weight prizefighter and barroom brawler. Two years ago fisticuffer McCoy finished a nine-year term in San Quentin Prison for drunkenly killing a sweetheart. Last August, when a boat capsized in a lake near Ann Arbor, he raced to the rescue in a motorboat. Grey, paunchy and 61, Kid McCoy fished five children from the water, dived deep for their parents until his nose spurted blood from the pressure...
...Representative Martin ( Kid Boots") Dies of Orange. Tex. opposed letting the President decide where and how all the "pork" should be distributed...
With his familiar eye-rolling and handclapping, Eddie Cantor prances through a dull, uninspired musical comedy extravaganza "Kid Millions" at Loew's Orpheum this week. The picture follows approximately the same comedy lines as did its predecessors, Eddie Cantor plays the same type of part and sings the same manner of songs, and as before myriads of luscious girls are whisked past the camera's lens in baffling geometric designs. If you liked these elements before you will probably like them again. As an extra special treat the final sequence is produced in gay Technicolor and handled as well...
Though little is gained by comparison with his earlier pictures, it is hard to avoid the feeling that "Kid Millions" is not up to the usual Cantor...