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...produced, the play is pretty much old rotgut in a new bottle. Subtitled See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have, the show has been given a special musical score, some vaudeville trimmings, considerable entr'activity. A good-looking girl in a slinky dress perches for the evening atop a piano, and between scenes, leads the boys in such old favorites as The Old Gray Mare, The Bowery...
...Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even the old prison walls shake...
...Jeffries Barn flocked Hollywood's upper crust, more to enjoy Belle Martell's entr'acte gags-picked up during 20 years of vaudeville trouping-than the bouts themselves. Four years ago, when Husband Martell was hired to promote the Los Angeles Athletic Club's boxing shows at the Olympic Auditorium, Mrs. Martell not only helped with promotion but promptly got an announcer's license, later a timekeeper's license-first ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than...
...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...mucho and arriba, as a cosmopolitan audience, looking like a first-night opera crowd, crammed into tiers of red & gold chairs, witnessed as exciting a jai-alai program as they had ever seen in any Latin country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four Aces": Spaniards Piston, Segundo, Gabriel and Guillermo (jai-alaiers are known by only one name). Most publicized...