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Glenn L. Martin Co. for 16 bombers of the new type which will deliver a 1,000-lb. bomb from a vertical dive...
...Katherine Rawls of Hollywood, Fla. is 14 and built like a minnow; unlike her three-year-old sister she hates to dive from high boards because it hurts her ears...
Divers. When Georgia Coleman executes a swan-dive, front or back jackknife, gainer ("flying dutchman"), back-flip or somersault, she does it more efficiently than any other female in the civilized world. So fluent, so sure are her motions in the air that spectators would not be surprised if, as newsreels often show her doing, she paused in mid-air and returned to the springboard. In the high platform championships last week, her execution of a running one-&-a-half forward somersault (see cut) caused judges to prefer her performance to that of plump Frances Meany, whose sister Helen...
...Dollar. Into the fold of the big Dollar Line fleet last week steamed 22 freight vessels. They had just been bought from Transmarine Line for $400,000. Transmarine is a subsidiary of Submarine Boat Corp. which was formed in 1915, made money during the War, made its permanent dive into the sea of losses in 1925. In 1929 Submarine Boat, still submerged in losses, crashed into a receivership. Shippingmen thought it unlikely that the Dollar Line would place Transmarine's vessels back in the well-served intercoastal route from which they were withdrawn in 1928. At present the Transmarine...
...secret of Miss Lillie's high comedy is that she appears to enjoy her clowning as much as the audience. Her funniest sketch in The Third Little Show is enacted in a Paris dive whither Miss Lillie, a visiting Englishwoman, and a spinsterish companion have repaired for a cup of tea. In spite of murder and rapine which takes place under her nose, Miss Lillie doggedly finishes her repast, incredibly chipper even when a corpse is draped over her shoulders. She also obliges with that old favorite: "There are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...