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Toward Goodness. Hangchow was ballyhooed by China's poets from the Sung Dynasty on. They were a fascinating crew, witty, sometimes raffish, often inspired. There was the great Li Po, poet and statesman, who founded a tipplers' club known as the Six Idlers of the Bamboo Brook...
Donahue has a long road record behind him, with an engagement at the Meadow-brook Club in New Jersey the most recent of his bookings. Claiming his primary object to be a "danceable band," Donahue has no clarinets or guitars, and features a male vocalist, Bill Lockwood...
Lough Conn, a 33-to-1 shot from Ireland, led most of the way, as he had last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race...
...length Johnny falls into the hands of three shoddy, half-mad symbols of three strong human drives. An artist (Robert Newton), foaming with delusions of genius, tries to paint the death in his eyes; a doctor (Elwyn Brook-Jones) patches him up for the sake of his own lost pride; the third man (F. J. McCormick) schemes to sell him to the highest bidder. Under these frenzied circumstances, the delirious hero shouts his own conversion and the story's master theme: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become...
...orchestra will be directed by Harry Kobialka of Wellesley and Malcolm Holmes '28. Included in the program will be Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C Major, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Heist's "Brook Green" suite, and two dances from the "Bartered Bride" by Smetana...