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...fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock set a slow one. When. 130 yards from the tape, Bonthron started his sprint...
...Fair grounds was exclusive. To compose his music authoritatively Mr. Ludig visited Ford plants, discovered that their music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle gave him trouble until he found he could reproduce it by a piccolo, clarinet, oboe and tuba chord...
These who think that a few good songs, some attractive females, a few feeble comedians and a handsome here spell a good movie will enjoy "20 Million Sweethearts." "I'll String Along With You," "It's Getting Fair and Warmer" are lilting melodies as jazz songs go but their popularity has detracted lots from their appeal. Bill Powell is fairly good singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" with dusted lyrics. Ginger Rogers is, we believe, sufficient excuse for seeing the film...
...retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string of ponies given him by his wife as a wedding present). Said he: "I am not worried about Barbara's condition. I hope to see her as soon as possible." Meanwhile Franklyn L. Hutton, Barbara's father, was speeding for England aboard the S. S. Bremen. Prince Alexis: "It will...
...full name is Constance Booth Woodruff Schuck-Booth for Edwin Booth, a distant relative; Woodruff for her elderly father, Dr. James Lloyd Woodruff, a Los Angeles and Pasadena family doctor; Schuck for Anthony G. Schuck, a second-string cinema director who had their marriage annulled when she returned from the production of Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better...