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...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...
...down together, the braces of the National or any other bird dog trials usually race together across open country, heading into the wind toward a likely clump of bushes. At the first scent of game, one or the other of the pair makes his point and if birds are flushed, the judges score a point for him. The dog's opponent comes to an "honor point" and the competition goes on, both dogs striving for the whiff of quail, until the judges are satisfied which of the two is the better worker...
Then arose complaints from theatre managers who were paying high prices to have Amos 'n' Andy appear in person (Publix Theatres paid the pair $6,500 weekly). They averred that the radio scheme permitted their competitors to present Amos 'n' Andy practically without cost. Last week Variety, theatrical weekly, announced that National Broadcasting Co., sympathetic to this objection, would take legal action against the broadcasting theatres on the ground of infringement of copyright...
...overwhelming appeal of this pair, whose daily mail is prodigious, whose popularity unquestionably exceeds that of any other radio performers, consists chiefly in their blending of simple narrative interest with skillful Negro characterization. People who for years have followed the fortunes of Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are naturally agog to discover what will happen to Amos 'n' Andy in their next radio installment. People who have roared mightily at Moran & Mack and the late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe...
Collies. "I have never seen such a magnificent pair as Mrs. Ilch's winners, Lucason of Ashtead o' Bellhaven and Bellhaven Bo Peep," said Judge Walter Reeves. Mrs. Ilch won first and reserve, best of breed and best bitch. Her kennel has won in the collie class every year since 1923 except 1927, when she did not exhibit...