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...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...
...When he had Borotra 4-3 and 40-30 in the fourth set, he seemed certain to win in the next few minutes. Then another unaccountable thing happened. Running for a shot in the forecourt, Shields dropped a ball he was carrying, stepped on it, twisted his leg badly, tumbled full-length into...
...Borotra helped him to get up, rubbed the leg, brought Shields some water and his coat, said: "We can finish the match some other time." When they went back to the court, the umpire called to Shields: "Are you all right?" Shields was not all right. He rested again, patted his leg, rubbed it, but refused to consider a postponement. He limped out on the court, won the game with an unreturnable serve, lost the next game without trying for it. Serving again, at 5-4, Shields delivered an ace, a first-ball which Borotra hit out, then lost...
...last week the chief, now old and brown, reversed his 3O-year position, went over to the Independistas. From a Manila hospital bed where he lay with a broken leg, Aguinaldo revealed to spry young Senator Arthur Robinson Robinson of Indiana his change of heart. The Aguinaldo plan: 1) immediate freedom for the islands; 2) five years for the U. S. to withdraw all its trappings of sovereignty; 3) ten years more of free trade between the U. S. and the Philippines. The ex-insurrecto predicted that independence would not sink the islands economically, that sheer native gratitude for freedom...
...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...