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...Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...
...more months and the wealth can then be shared, and the poor are being taken care of now, and I am personally appealing to the membership of the House to let us adjourn this session immediately." Mad applause from Democrats and Republicans alike. A day passed and "Bras" Deen offered a privileged resolution: "Resolved . . . That the two Houses of Congress shall adjourn on Tuesday, the 23rd day of July, 1935 . . . sine die." Up jumped Rules Chairman O'Connor, moved to table the resolution. Speaker Byrns called for those in favor of tabling the motion: a chorus of "Ayes." Then...
Lucienne Boyer would be rich from her phonograph records alone. In France hers outsell all others. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" topped 350,000. Other big sellers have been "Si Petite," "Attends," "Sans Toi," "J'ai laissé mon coeur," "Désir," "Garde moi dans tes bras," "Parle moi d'autre chose, " "Moi j'crache dans I'eau," "Ballade." The songs have wide variety but Lucienne Boyer's stage costume is always the same: deep blue velvet for which she chooses blue or amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes...
...Paris Lucienne Boyer has had several new songs to keep her night club customers buying champagne far into the morning. The best ones are "Ne dis pas toujours," "Quand tu seras dans mes bras" and "Ballade" which Yvette Guilbert could have sung with no more finesse...
...himself. After his father died, he learned taxidermy, went to St. Francis College (Brooklyn) and at 15 to work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy Frenchman Bras de Fer; one of whose members had commanded the forts in the 1690 Leisler Rebellion; another of whom is reputedly still owed £567 for paying for Manhattan's City Hall in 1803. Rex Brasher had no art training except at Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo...