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...decade's most extraordinary theatrical whatnot went into the final frenzy of rehearsals, Producer Rose had a man on a downtown stage practicing a high-dive into a cage of lions and tigers while a swarm of acrobats and jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended...
...spectacular new members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary Hoerger Platform dive Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-metre medley relay ..............Women's Swimming Association 880-yd. relay. . .Washington Athletic Club
...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
...swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger, went to Miami Beach to be general super intendent for Carl Fisher Properties. Their mother, née Bilsbarrow, arrived there after paddling a canoe from St. Louis to New Orleans (1,260 mi.) in 42 days, al most won the national tower-diving championship in 1920. She teaches her children the family specialty by harnessing them in a belt with swivel joints and making them practice until they know the proper movements of each dive. Mary Hoerger, at 8, placed ninth in the senior Olympic trials, in which her entry was accepted only...
Omitting the 19th Century, the mural leaps headlong into Elizabeth Arden's magnificent 20th. A carved lacquer box spills out a few samples of available cosmetics while everywhere lithe young lady Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...