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...famed for lavender shirts, long telegrams, long-distance telephone calls, frequent unreasonableness. He sent a long complaining telegram to Fannie Brice because she left his Follies a month before she was to have a baby. He owned six custard-colored Rolls-Royces, hunted in Canada with five Indian guides, traveled in a private railroad car, kept a private barber and a succession of private chefs. His favorite food was terrapin. Pressagents complained because he telephoned them at 7 a. m. When a big news story broke the day he sailed for Europe, his name failed to appear on the first...
...Blue also opens its season today in the Bowl against the University of Maine. Able Booth only lacks one man of having an all-veteran team. Last season the Orono stalwarts were crushed by the Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season...
...Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost his job at the advent of the talkies...
Next day nine Marine planes were doing "coiled-spring" loops in single file across the sky. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, loudly audible to the crowd 2,000 ft. below. Two planes, piloted by Lieuts. L. H. ("Sandy") Sanderson and W. O. Brice, had collided. As their planes fell, the crowd heard Lieut. Emile Chourre. standing before a microphone on the field, calmly broadcast the event as if it were part of the entertainment. Said he: "Keep your seats everybody and watch for the boys to come out. Two of them will shortly join the Caterpillar Club. Here they...
...everybody was not yet all right. Sanderson, his shroud line caught in the wrecked plane, dropped 1,000 ft. before he struggled loose. Brice was momentarily stunned, said later he was only dimly aware of flinging himself from his plane and jerking open his parachute. Both landed safely. The planes injured no one: Sanderson's landed in a vacant lot, Brice's on the cornice of a public school building, beyond which several children were playing...