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When his Contract Bridge Match for the "Championship of the World'' started in Manhattan last month Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs proudly announced that, on its last evening, the event would be moved into Madison Square Garden, with 52 sandwich men impersonating a pack of cards so that 15,000 spectators could follow the play. True to his word, Promoter Jacobs last week moved the Four Aces, representing the U. S., and their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich...
...Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...
Nelson Doubleday, not through his book stores but through his mail order sales & book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged...
...Cleveland Artur Rodzinski thrust his baton into the air last week, scurried through the sparkling overture to Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and the curtain was up on a performance made memorable by Soprano Lotte Lehmann as the wistful, aging Princess...
...things that make the Great Waltz worth going to see are Hazard Short's brilliant stage effects, the lovely evolutions of the Albertina Rasch ballet--and, above all, the Strauss Waltzes which weaves their way through the production casting a spell of Viennese laughter and gayety...