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...other (a Cuban) in the whole world, so far as is known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl of the Swiss chalet barometer...
...last week's concert : enormous Vaughn De Leath, announced as the first voice to go on the air; fat Morton Downey who looked foolish singing "Kiss Me Goodnight''; the four black Mills brothers huddled around a spikelike amplifier, knees quivering, sounding like a trumpet, a pair of saxophones and a tuba. The actual concert, save as it benefited unemployed musicians, was unimportant. But when bald, egg-shaped Ferde Grofe came sheepishly on the platform, it was formal evidence of the Whiteman-Grofe split. There is no bad blood between them but chunky Ferde Grofe was tired...
...from scratch in a large field of entries, sprinted neck and neck at the taps after four laps of spirited running. Pearson nosed out his rival in the last few yard's pacing, finishing a mere tenth of a second ahead of Dodge. J. B. White '34 pressing this pair hotly throughout the race and finished a good third, a second behind the winner...
...resigned. The news came suddenly in the middle of the night from the steelman's Manhattan home. As he faced the specially summoned reporters the tall, burly veteran of 51 years of steel showed little sign of his age. His ruddy face, topped by white hair, frames a pair of cold blue eyes. Written in his own handwriting, President Farrell's statement said his resignation had been accepted by the board to take effect April 18 but that he would remain a director. Surprised were the steel trade and Wall Street because his retirement would have been automatic...
...Hollywood's credo, all citizens of Manhattan who are not in the breadline or the bootlegging business live in severely modernistic penthouses. People who live in penthouses should not throw themselves out the window, but the villainess of this picture (Wynne Gibson) does so while intoxicated, mistaking a pair of glass doors which open on an airshaft for those which lead to the room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy...