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Ever since she made her first appearance in Mexico last summer (and killed three bulls in one afternoon), Conchita has been first in the hearts of Mexican bullfight fans. Only 17 years old and weighing 108 lbs., she looks like a beautiful porcelain doll. In the ring she is not only exquisitely graceful-especially on her prancing, high-stepping mount-but absolutely fearless...
...story: Four years ago, at Wahnsien, on the rushing Yangtze River, he called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...
Watercolors by David T. W. McCord '21, acting editor of the Alumni Bulletin and Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund, are being shown this week at the Doll and Richards Gallery, 138 Newbury Street, Boston. Thirty-eight paintings are on exhibition, most of them landscapes...
Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made for Victor in 1929. As far as I am concerned, this disc settles once and for all who plays the most piano. Up until about two years ago, I' still thought that the "Father" was the top of them all, but after that he didn't do any recording...
Some Wylie selections: best quiz show, Information Please; best human interest, We, the People; best variety, Kate Smith's hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus...