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...time Groucho returned to Manhattan, his brother Gummo had shown signs of talent. Mrs. Marx hired a girl soprano, got up an act called "The Three Nightingales." They performed in Atlantic City in a beer garden on a pier. Underneath the pier were fishnets. The manager of the beer garden fed the Marxes only fish, because it was cheapest on his menu. Next season, Mrs. Marx thought that Harpo also was fitted for her act. She recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo...
Granted to TIME of that date: the implication that the coast is superior; the East, excellent in track material. Not granted: the implication by omission that the Midwest is lacking in such talent (notwithstanding that tiny blurb about the fast-fading Eddie Tolan of Michigan...
...York, who have received gold medals and diplomas for a few weeks or months of work? What do they know? These people must hate the ballet, for it requires many and many years of study, and one should begin at an early age and one must have talent...
...Author- In 1883, into an atmosphere reeking with literary and dramatic talent, Edward Montague Compton (Mackenzie is his ancestors' clan name) was born. His father was an able actor; his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, famed Lady Macbeth; his actress sister Fay Compton still holds the boards. After Oxford he took to writing plays, finally to novel-writing. He fought in the War, was invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books...
...York City's East Side 34 years ago, Authoress Carlisle ran away from home young, went to London, worked there as a typist during the War. On her return to the U. S. she took up acting, played a child role in The Miracle. Disappointed in her theatrical talent, she took up writing "in an effort to do something." Together Again, See How They Run, Mothers Cry (the last snapped up for the talkies by First National) were immediate successes. The scholarly weight of historical research in We Begin acts as a sedative to her emotionally excitable...