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...still talks in the soft New Orleans drawl of her girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first time. And among others invited to join the international squad this year was Cecil Smith, Texas cowboy, a natural-born...
...Pietro Ricci, San Francisco music teacher, father of six, recognized his Ruggiero's unusual talent, took him to Louis Persinger who trained Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. Teacher Persinger enthused, put small Ruggiero under the care of Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey for grooming. Later to her went Giorgio. Less and less did the Riccis see their sons. On Nov. 15, 1928, Ruggiero's San Francisco debut was hailed by critics. Next day Father Pietro signed a legal paper thinking (he says) it was a will providing for his boys should he die. Instead the papers made Miss Lackey guardian for Ruggiero...
...picture dealing with aviators, but the usual framework of such efforts has been drawn into a tense believable story, without a woman in the cast, without formal plot, without undue sentimentality. The action concerns Richard Barthelmess' dislike for a superior officer who seems to have a talent for sending young aviators to death needlessly. When he is moved into the officer's job he finds that he has to do the same thing in much the same way. In the end he sacrifices his own life for another flyer's, but his motive is strong enough...
...other mummers to deliver pithy orations against the 18th Amendment. The scenes for these philippics are laid in various U. S. historical spots. The rest of the entertainment, however, punctuated from time to time by Mr. Carroll's addresses to the audience through a microphone, offers plenty of talent, wit, feminine anatomy...
Each year The Lambs present their public Gambols, disport themselves for the financial benefit of the club. The Lambs might see fit to make additional use of their "$44,000,000 worth of talent," Shepherd Royle observed, to relieve their present economic burden; in other words, perhaps, give a benefit...