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...Hollywood last week, Crooner Crosby, who also maintains a prizefighter, a girls' baseball team and a stable of race horses, one of which, Fight On, last week won its maiden race at odds of 80-to-1, announced that he would run a $3,000 invitation golf tournament at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, on Feb. 6-7. Golfers wondered whether Mysterious Montague would be invited to compete and, if so whether he would oblige his friend and the public by accepting...
...itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following her to a cafe in which she had taken refuge from the photographer, Newt made a hit playing river music on his homemade one-man-band contraption. Pearl, following her husband's second reappearance, was about to clear for Chicago with a crooner, and Ernie was on the brink of a new wedding with a river gal (Katherine DeMille) when Newt nailed Pearl and Ernie in the barge-boat cabin. At last he found reason to strike up St. Louis Blues. Best tunes: With a Banjo On My Knee, There's Something...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
...Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
This week that intrepid transatlantic exhibitionist, Crooner Harry Richman, and his pilot. Dick Merrill, headed back across the ocean from England to the U. S., ran out of gas over Newfoundland, plopped into a bog with slight damages to plane and flyers. Few days before, two really important transatlantic flights had been accomplished with much more efficiency and much less ballyhoo by Germany's Lufthansa...