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...Lawrence Lang-ner, of the Theatre Guild, and his wife Armina. The real name of Laurence Rivers is Rowland Stebbins, producer of The Green Pastures. The real purpose of The Pursuit of Happiness is to capitalize the old Colonial custom called bundling. As practiced by pretty Prudence Kirkland (Peggy Conklin) at Westville, Conn, in the winter of 1778. bundling turns out to be a most unromantic procedure. Like fishing or travel, the idea is more exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...manager of prizefighters (Sullivan, Fitzsimmons the original Jack Dempsey), fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would put the roasting in Sullivan's column. Nobody ever made any objection...
Married. Roscoe Conklin ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 45, onetime film funnyman and director; and one Addie Oakley Dukes McPhail, 26; in Erie, Pa. Mr. & Mrs. Arbuckle are in vaudeville together...
Meanwhile, the nomination of "this man Hoover" was being seconded by eight orators, none of whom rose to the forensic heights of Chicago's Negro politician, Roscoe Conklin Simmons, who declared...