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When Maxwell Anderson, and Eugene O'Neill, and Clifford Odets are forgotten, and the Empire State Building is one with the Coliseum, and Beacon Hill is of no more consequence than the Palatine, Plautus will still be a name that is known by a favoured few, and the man of the future will look back to a couple of days after the Ides of April, A.D. 1936, and call it a glimmering of light in an age that was dark with a complex gloom...
...dance marathons. In 1932 it was Walkathons. Last week it appeared possible that in 1936 the U. S. appetite for preposterous endurance might take an even more eccentric form: the Roller Derby. In Chicago 25 young men & women were roller-skating in circles around the Coliseum. They had been doing so since Christmas Day. It was the fourth Roller Derby held in the U. S. since last August. Crowds averaged...
...idea of calling his Derby Association ''Transcontinental" was a shrewd device on the part of Promoter Seltzer to prevent his event from seeming too sordid, add a touch of the outdoors. A Roller Derby course is 4,000 mi. long. In the Coliseum last week, a map at one end of the arena showed that contestants, skating 85 to 110 mi. per day, from 1:30 p. m. until 12:30 a. m., had last week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York...
...evening last week in the Coliseum at Lincoln, Neb., 10,000 applauding citizens looked up into the chubby face of the country's only living ex-President, who in turn beamed down upon them. Herbert Hoover was about to assault the New Deal on its once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton...
...President and Mrs. Roosevelt were here and received a great welcome from the 225,000 school children who were let out of school and most of the 400,000 who are on relief here, all of whom lined the streets from the station to the Coliseum. The Coliseum was almost filled. The Epic Socialists passed out literature at the Coliseum and Upton Sinclair was in the limelight...