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...Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because they were emerging from their first childhood, Eddie because he was entering his second. By that time he had grown into a theatrical legend of fatherhood, of wierd vocal inflections, of furious stage gestures, of boisterous acting. He removed to New Rochelle...
Noticing Subscriber Mitchell's letter in TIME, July 11, and instructions to "comment, pro and con," I am sending in my voice as an emphatic...
Sirs: In TIME, June 20, p. 23, col. 1, under MILESTONES -you announce the engagement of Phyllis Cleveland of Boston. In a footnote below you say, "Not to be con fused with famed Phyllis Cleveland, co-star (with the Four Marx Brothers) in The Cocoanuts. This, however, is your mistake as the Phyllis Cleveland of Boston, who is to wed J. Ainsworth Morgan, is the Phyllis Cleveland of stage fame, who ap peared in The Cocoanuts. H. L. W. P. S. Your magazine, criticizing others, deserves to be criticized. Cleveland, Ohio...
...subscribers, "many, potent, forward-looking," turn again to "Calendar" (under BUSINESS & FINANCE, June 27). Let them comment, pro and con...
...performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather see the show than listen to me." But few would have fulfilled that promise and sat down after a speech of hardly more than a moment's duration. And Colonel Lindbergh's con duct in Paris and in England must have done much to relieve the sore ness caused by tourists with franc-plastered trunks, by Mr. Tilden squabbling with linesmen and Mr. Hagen missing his appointments. With the Lindbergh episode al most over, cynics may rise to call his ovations "hysteria...