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...list of famed Nebraskans as given in your issue of Nov. 18 contains some rather conspicuous omissions. Among them are: Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Indian scout and showman; J. Sterling Morton, first Secretary of Agriculture and fatherof Arbor Day*; Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the Federal Farm Board, publisher, and ex-governor; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (learned to fly at Lincoln); Ace Hudkins, pugilist; Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School. HAROLD L. PETERSON...
...been an explanation that prevents destruction of the aforementioned theory. "Rio Rita" is frankly a photograph of a famous Ziegfeld success and it has proved popular for the reason that it provides at small cost an opportunity for the general populace to see the work of a nationally publicized showman. "The Hollywood Revue" could hardly fail since almost every star of one of the largest film firms makes a sort of personal appearance in it, and "The Cocoanuts" has been liked where the Marx Brothers are known and the defects of production are therefore generously overlooked...
...players doing entertainment specialties. William Austin is the sissified professor. Helen Kane carries an air-rifle and sings her "poop-a-doop" songs. Nancy Carroll is the pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much...
...three challenges (in foreign countries) from young men whom he humiliated in public by demonstrating that they concealed a duck on their persons. He began with $00.25, and now has a home on Long Island. In this book he tells his adventures as a showman...
...Last year Showman Gest, stick in hand, clambered out of a window from the wreck of a Rome-Paris express in which 15 persons died...