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...tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice", a light and not too well written farce by the Hungarian Sil-Vara, made vastly entertaining by the direction of Philip Moeller and the fine playing of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The Guild still sponsors that five hour marathon by O'Neill, "Strange Interlude", whose latest and far less successful play, "Dynamo" closes tonight...
...never lost faith in the ultimate bigheartedness of the White House. For $10,000 he successfully out-lobbied the Walsh Senate resolution for investigating interstate public utilities, transforming it into a toothless inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission. He distinguished himself last month by winning the so-called Mayflower Marathon: when Herbert Hoover, returning from South America, arrived the first morning at his hotel headquarters, it was Mr. Lenroot who, first of all comers, rushed in upon him, wrung his hand, wished him well...
Major and Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin, of Chicago, stepped on a dance-floor at Phoenix, Ariz., but soon stepped off again. Reason: a marathon dance was in progress and the competitors, watching Mrs. McLaughlin (Irene Castle), felt tired, nettled. Mercedes Gleitz, 28, onetime London typist, English Channel swimmer,* last week broke her engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she had met by mail. Said she: "I have thought the matter over and feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash...
Proof that the changes in circulation, blood analysis, and respiration induced by violent exercise are directly connected with length of exercise, training, and lung capacity was revealed yesterday by Dr. L. J. Henderson '98, Professor of Biological Chemistry in Harvard University. Experiments on Clarence de Mar, the famous marathon runner, and other athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running...
Engaged. Clarence R. De Mar, 40, famed marathon runner, of Melrose! Mass.; to Margaret L. Ilsley, religious educator, of Melrose Highlands...