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John Doeg, U. S. tennis champion, went to work in the advertising department of the Newark (N. J.) News, Commented Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams in the New York World: "He'd better keep out of the editorial department or they'd make him tennis editor when the season of 1931 begins. And then what will (sic) the amateur rules committee...
...French parentage, who has lived in the U. S. since 1916, gave an exhibition last week at Manhattan's Babcock Galleries. The paintings, of ships, of skyscrapers, occasionally of ships and skyscrapers were technically inept, showed an excellent color sense. Critics compared them to the oilpaint fumblings of Colyumist Heywood Broun last week on view and for sale at the Weyhe Galleries, called them promising, uninteresting. Much more interesting was Painter La Grange's method of disposing of his pictures...
...Colyumist Guinan...
With something more than a sly wink at Colyumist Calvin Coolidge (TIME, June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together...
...kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done than anything else is write...