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Claremont, Calif. There she takes a two-hour trolley ride once a week to get to a Los Angeles fencing club where she practices. At Scripps College, Miss Mayer meant to study international law to prepare for a career in the German foreign service. The Hitler regime changed her plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks...
...Miss Helene Mayer and Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when...
...Miss Mayer is not the only famed fencer who comes from Offenbach. Like Erskrath de Bary, Hans & Julius Thomson, H. Halberstadt, Stephanie Stern and many another, she was taught by Offenbach's famed professional, Arturo Gazzerra. In 1924, at 13. she was fencing champion of Germany. In 1928 she won the individual championship at the Olympics. In 1932, Helene Mayer visited the U. S. with the German Olympic team, stayed on as an exchange student at Scripps College...
Viva Villa (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Pancho Villa was a Mexican cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation...
...climax of the revue is the performance of Lottic Mayer's Diving Beauties, who first wade into a tank, where they disappear, and then emerge to give a diving exhibition. The woman sitting in front of us reviewed it by gasping, "Oh, ain't it beautifull...