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...poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...told you I am his second string. I don't exactly know what that means, whether it is a compliment or not. If it means that I am not as good as he is, I object. If, as somebody has just told me, the second string starts in to function only when the first was broken down, I don't quite see where I come in. He did not show any signs of breaking down. In fact, I thought he was too long...
Footlights is another play about the show business. It holds up to ridicule the efforts of a shoe-string producer to turn out a musical comedy. There are dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
...stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of individual star players. The manager, Col. H. A. Tomkinson, said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies...
Music will be in order from the beginning of the spread. M. M. Goodhue is to supply a special dance orchestra of eleven pieces with two pianos, and with a special group of Russian musicians who will perform on three string intsruments for waltzes and during the intermissions...