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...fortnight after he had so graciously propped up his company, Mr. Rosenwald won a prize in a newspaper contest, a prize of $5 for submitting the day's best motto: "I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar," a phrase from Robert Ingersoll, robustious iconoclast...
...beggar not at all, Mr. Rosenwald yet gives regally, in million dollar gestures, usually with a stipulation that the recipient secure some complement no matter how small. Some gifts: to 13 Negro Y. M. C. A.'s and 2 Y. W. C. A.'s in 13 cities having a Negro population of about a million, $2,750,000; to the University of Chicago and other institutions, $700,000; to the establishment of a University of Chicago Medical School, $500,000; to the Wilmer (Eye) Institute Fund of Johns Hopkins University, $50,000; to the creating of "neat...
...Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
...Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes...
...last bit of copy was carried by a plucky little beggar, who rode as he had never ridden before, and was quite done out when he fell off his wheel as he delivered his copy. But he had done his bit well, and the crowd, coming from the game, was met in the Yard with cries of 'Full account of the game! CRIMSON extra...