Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan producers-Michael Todd and Alfred de Liagre Jr.-were planning separate swing productions of The Mikado on Broadway. When the Federal Theatre decided to bring its own production East, de Liagre bowed himself out, but Todd, charging WPA with obstructing private enterprise, accelerated his plans, engaged Hoofer Bill Robinson for the title role. Promptly the Federal Theatre closed its show in Chicago, last week opened it-three weeks ahead of Todd's-in Manhattan...
Like many another genius, Edgar Wallace did not reach maturity until he was past 40. His full flowering came after the War. A new publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet...
Most exciting event of the afternoon was the breast-stroke in which Roger Willcox prevailed by the narrow margin of one foot. Bill Cann scored a win in the dive with Pete Waring just failing to take a second...
...McSweeney with 12 points and Fran Simpson with nine were the big guns in the Crimson attack, and the play of Bill Smith at guard was another feature of the game. Captain Jack Stewart at center and Vic Marans were the other two Harvard starters...
Standing higher in the final slating than they ever have before, the Harvard wrestling team tied with the Yale team for the third position in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, held in New Haven last Friday and Saturday. Three members of the team, in the persons of "Chief" Boston, Bill Daughaday and Bruce Richardson, won all of the points...