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...opening scene discloses Guy Button seated amongst the roaring denizens of the "Mantic" barroom, San Francisco's gaudiest. Even through this smoky atmosphere, Button sees his destiny writ large, and he decides to jump ship, revealing a rather dubious moral resiliency as he double-sells his boots and oil-skins to two less ambitious purchasers. Of a sudden the swearing and noise of glasses are awed to silence by the flouncing entrance of Adah Menken, a beautiful Jewish actress. Impressed by this lady, Button snatches her shawl, leaps back, and shouts ". . . Now, I'm part...
Another thing, the state of Mississippi has always been traditionally a dry state, but when the whiskey trust of America, decided to convert the U. S. into a vast barroom, and brothel to drag down the masses to a state of degeneracy, the wets of Mississippi, conceived and tried to pass the most eniquitous piece of whiskey legislation ever offered as an insult to the intelligence of a moral and spiritual-minded people...
...handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...
...pair entered vaudeville through the back room of a Brighton, England barroom. Their mother, an unmarried barmaid, sold the infants to the proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...
When Michigan's Harry Kipke finally made it clear that he had not been invited to coach football at Yale (TIME, Jan. 22), the sports-page-&-barroom tempest over Yale's coaching staff subsided for a while. Last week the Yale Board of Athletic Control announced the 1934 staff: Head Coach Raymond W. ("Ducky") Pond, Assistants Earle ("Greasy") Neale, Denny Myers and Ivan Williamson. It could hardly have caused more rumpus if they had chosen Yale's President Angell as coach and three ditchdiggers as assistants. "Ducky" Pond, like his predecessors, is a Yale graduate...