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...began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn that it was "poorly expressed, crude and ungrammatical." (He afterwards published it, revised, in his Physical Culture Magazine...
...This film about acrobats is devised entirely for one episode which occupies a tenth of a second and takes place on a trapeze, half way to heaven. The key of the episode is a mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like...
...stage offering, more tuneful and delightful than usual, has as its bright spot two acrobat-comedians who do a neat bit jumping back and forth on a rubber net. Their act is carried out with minute precision and is quite different from the ordinary acrobatic stunt. Arthur Martel offers his weekly organ solo, this time in the form of a musical boxing bout between the husbands and wives present and the concert orchestra contributes a dashing rendering of the "Rhapsody in Black and White". All in all the program is a well-balanced entertainment sure to please some...
Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
...famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...