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...Stan Kavanaugh, a dead-pan juggler, who is indeed a master of his craft, makes a bold bid to steal the whole show. The rest of the bill, consisting of tumblers and a six-couple dancing act, round out a fare that is varied and fast-moving enough to entertain throughout...
...eyed and reformed, the wealthier husbands of Detroit sifted back from the New York Automobile Show last week full of new orders and bicarbonate of soda. Meanwhile Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner had done his best to entertain their wives. At the Detroit Institute of Arts of which he has been director for eleven years, Dr. Valentiner opened the largest, most important exhibition of the work of Frans Hals ever held in the U. S. Of some 300 known paintings by that hearty old Dutchman, about 80 are in the U. S. Fifty of these were in last week...
...cost Chattanooga, Tenn. $25,000 to entertain the 700 oldsters who attended the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans last year. Last week U. C. V.'s 1935 reunion city, St. Petersburg, Fla., decided that the cost was too great, withdrew its invitation. Only three other Southern towns wanted the veterans and all were too small...
Last week the Exposition opened on schedule and with it the new $1,225,000 Temple of Agriculture, penny-bright and new-broom clean. On hand was Chicago's Mayor Kelly to make a speech. Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas Edward Wilson to entertain at dinner 1,300 healthiest members of the 4-H Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down...
...supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner Brothers' claims since it makes no demands upon her talents beyond: 1) impersonating a rich girl who finds wealth such an obstacle to a full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...