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Called the second-best pistol shot- and most vicious killer in Chicago's underworld, he had gone "gun crazy," began returning the fire of imaginary killers on empty streets...
...Mammy and When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You (Brunswick)?Neither the tunes nor the sentiment can boast originality but Al Jolson sings them in his most propulsive manner. A second-best Jolson record is Looking at You and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy, both from the cinema Mammy...
...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...
People in the U. S. want their music, like their sermons, short. Quick to realize it, Victor Talking Machine Co., when it offered $25,000 last spring 'for the best symphonic work, included prize offers of $10,000 and $5,000 for best and second-best short compositions suitable for a jazz orchestra. The $25,000 symphonic contest stays open until next May. Winners of the jazz contest were named last week in Manhattan at a dinner at which John Philip Sousa was toastmaster...
Olympia is a dinner-table anecdote about pre-War Austrian intrigue. Though flecked with Molnar's second-best jokes and informed with the proper politesse, Olympia would have been very dull without Actress Crews who smoked a cigar and sometimes made it sparkle while her daughter was being seduced...