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...Rene Clair, who is the author of "Le Million," which was chosen by the committee as their initial production of last year, also wrote "A Nous, La Liberte." The music was written by Aurie, a well-known Parisian composer...
...tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra...
...Wimbledon week, which lasts a fortnight all the British championships are played at the same time. In the women's singles Helen Wills reached the semi-finals comfortably, bracketted against Mme Rene Mathieu of France who had put out Betty Nuthall. Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn. U. S. Davis Cup doubles team, beat Dr. S. C. Gregory and Ian Collins to reach the quarter finals...
...that at least one new tennis phenomenon must be found to take the Davis Cup away from France. Failing the phenomenal, aging (32) Henri Cochet would be enough to keep it another year in France especially if aided by Jean Borotra, 33. Also at hand this year is Rene Lacoste, 27, who helped take the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, retired in 1929 and will attempt a comeback this week against the British...
...Yale 1927, son of the ex-Senator from New York, is now a New York Assemblyman. A candidate for the New York State Senate in 1930 was Alexander Hamilton, then 27, Harvard 1925, nephew of John Pierpont Morgan, great-great-grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury. Frederic Rene Coudert Jr., 34, Columbia 1918, onetime assistant U. S. Attorney, ran for New York District Attorney in 1929. James Roosevelt, 25, onetime Harvard student, son of New York's Governor, campaigns for his father in Massachusetts, is pledged to him as a Democratic delegate in Chicago next June...