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...Roseland building as the end of an era, the dance hall had actually been changing its function for a long time. It started as a refuge for the "poor young clerks" Scott Fitzgerald wrote about; it evolved into a place of family entertainment. From the beginning, Founder Louis Brecker, a onetime Philadelphia accountant, was determined to put Roseland in a class beyond the average taxi dance hall. He publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez...
...Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
Roseland was started by a Philadelphia accountant named Louis Brecker, who had a passion for dancing and a simple ambition to make a million dollars. His partner was a Pottsville, Pa. brewer named Frank D. Yuengling. Brecker had decided that the public wanted cheap but respectable dance halls. Brecker's first Roseland, in Philadelphia, repaid his investment in six months...
...voiced disappointment in its showing to date. With the return next week of captain Tommy Campion, who was injured in the Navy game, and Dick Lewis, who has been suffering from a severe cold, it is quite likely that the team will make a better showing. HARVARD TUFTS Brecker, g. g., Urbon Livingston, Wilcox, pt. pt., Kempton Maguin, Ferris c.p. c. pt. O'Brien, Silva Bloter, ld. ld., Hammond Baker, Blanchard, Tanner 2d. 2d., Dolben Downey, Doughty, Flinn, c, c., Conforti Willard, Holstead, Sullivan, Bird, 2a. 2a., Gould, Yale Hunraker, la. la., Sullivan (Capt.) Cleveland, Shepard, o.h. o.h., Barselow, Speare...
...none have shown extraordinary ability; no one man standing out above the others. S. H. Johnson, who has been in the pitcher's box for Team A in the practice games in the cage is perhaps the best of the boxmen, but is a trifle wild, and G. H. Brecker, who has been showing plenty of speed, has also experienced the same difficulty. Of the other men, Robinson, Washburn and Newton have the edge and any of these may develop into a first-string pitcher. Robinson is the only left-hander among the candidates, and should prove a valuable member...