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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oliver Max Gardner, at 47, is North Carolina's youngest Governor. Cottonmill owner, lawyer, farmer, he plays a left-handed game of golf, is fondly called "Max" by most Tarheel voters. At North Carolina State College he was a famed football player. Twenty years in Democratic politics, grey-haired, handsome, easy-mannered, he was elected last year without turning Hoovercratic to please bitter little old Senator Simmons...
Sometime ago Equity President Frank Gillmore declared that members signing non-Equity contracts after June 5 would be suspended. Many a player paid no attention, signed such a contract. Among them was Tully Marshall, long-faced character actor...
...still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures which tried hard, however ineptly, to make you cry or wriggle with excitement. Typical shots: Frederick Graham, cinema's best butler, bringing Captain Dean (Kenneth MacKenna) the roses a philandering polo player has sent up for Mrs. Dean...
...American League the batting leadership has varied between young Jimmy Foxx (see below) and Heine Manush of St. Louis. Player Robert ("Fat") Fothergill of Detroit has a higher average than either, but has not played in all his team's games as he really is too fat to get around very rapidly and is no great fielding asset. Meanwhile nearly all the hitters are swinging from their shoetops and watching the ball describe arching parabolas to not-so-distant fences...
...Pitchers Grove and Walberg, and good pitching from Pitchers Earnshaw and Quinn (Quinn is another relic of spitball days) he is far and apparently safely in the lead. The New York Club, winner in 1926:27-28, is a good old wagon seemingly in the process of breaking down. Player Ruth, several times out of the game for illness this season, last week strained himself charging after a fly. Pitcher Herbert Pennock, after a career of some 15 years, was almost useless during the first part of the season. None of the other clubs have much chance of finishing better...