Word: excellance
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...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Mary A. Hudson left some platinum-based false teeth, one set more than 60 years old, "to the dental colleges in the hope that they may prove an incentive to dentists to equal or possibly excel the work of Dr. John Allen...
Intense desire to excel plus artless popularity is a rare combination. With it and with much besides, Assistant Secretary Ingalls is regarded by Elder Republicans as the kind of energetic, intelligent young man of whom the G. O. P. can make good use in years to come...
Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying to ape the elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered by plumpish, sleek Mae Barnes, who delights many a spectator with her slatternly, lazy dance...
...from England six years ago it was with the reputation of having made Bach recitals as popular there as cricket matches. In the U. S. he has essayed other composers but it is Bach which best suits his immaculate, flowing style. Bach at which no other pianist can excel him. His Yale course will be limited to twelve students of already passable piano technique...