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Professional tennis players in the U. S. are of two sorts: those who teach tennis and those who exhibit themselves for a living. The latter class, mostly onetime amateurs, has multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player...
Messrs. Mills and Castle would go to hear transatlantic reports from Secretary Mellon, chief U. S. negotiator in Paris. Mr. Mellon usually called around noon and again at dinnertime. Sometimes the connection was so poor that the President and his aides could not hear the soft-speaking Secretary. It was also found that the President's voice did not carry well to Paris so a telephone girl was brought in to do his talking for him. Once the President asked the 76-year-old Secretary if he were exhausted by his strenuous diplomatic activities. Replied Mr. Mellon...
...unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
...large, exciting eyes. Her career in Europe had the same twists- she danced in the Diaghilev ballet, was later featured in two UFA cinemas. Before that, she had grown up in Russia, won a dancing contest in Petrograd at 17. She is now 23, pronounces her name with a soft G, to rhyme with...