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...dissuaded when the pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage...
...cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress she's wearing-the one Gretta wo' when she was the Queen of Sweden. Well, where you wanta go now? Motorboat races? Golf tournament...
Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...
...Ladysman. son of Pompey who was beaten by Col. Bradley's Bubbling Over in the Derby of 1926. Best of the western entrants, most people thought, were Charley O, who won the Florida Derby, and a "10^ store horse" named Head Play. An oldtime jockey, Willie Crump, bought Head Play at a yearling sale for $500, gave him to his wife. Last week, when Head Play had beaten most of the other Derby eligibles in a preliminary race at Churchill Downs, Mrs. Crump sold him to Mrs. Silas Mason of New York...
...Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mrs. Myrtle Crump, 41, jobless school teacher, prepared to spend a second winter with her two children in a tented hole in the ground...