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...plan is to elevate a motor concourse above the railroad right-of-way now labelled Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...yacht Gimcrack in the New York harbor off the Battery, met a group of men including John C. Jay, George L. Schuyler, James M. Waterbury and founded the New York Yacht Club. Its first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this...
...Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth. He had passed his 44th year when he made mince meat of the world's 100 mile record...
Broadhurst, West 44th St.--Back stage at a night club, with bootleggers, butter-and-egg men, murders, detectives, lovers, etc. Lee Tracy as the self-made "hoofer" almost makes you believe there is such a person. Eloise Stream, in a minor part, convinces you of her reality. You can't help being conscious of the fact that Sylvia Field, playing opposite Tracy, is acting...
Proadhurst, W. 44th, Broadway-- A comedy of the back-stage life of the night club: Lee Tracy plays the part of the self-made "hoofer" who worships his maker. Eloise Stream, in one of the minor parts, gives an almost perfect performance...