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Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago ended Byrnes's candidacy...
...flattest flops of Broadway's flop-heavy season flopped into oblivion last week - Boudoir after eleven showings, Popsy after four...
...materials of In the Money are so simple that, judged even by the flattest traditions of Naturalism, they scarcely exist. Joe Stecher is a German-American, his wife Gurlie is Norwegian, his daughters are Lottie, 5, and Flossie, 2. They live in Manhattan, on 104th Street, and the year is 1901. Joe has quit his job (he is a printer) and is trying against stiff, not to say dirty, opposition to set up in business for himself. He lacks the proper piratical zest; but Gurlie is hell-bent to get him-and herself-In the Money. In the long...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
Smarties' Chests. Twenty thousand Minneapolis school children marched up to Dr. Samuel Arthur Weisman a few years ago and let him measure their chests, heights, weights. Those with the broadest, flattest chests were the biggest and heaviest. Since reaching that conclusion, Dr. Weisman collected the school grades of 15,000 of the children and found that the biggest, broad-chested ones made the best grades. The narrow, pigeon-chested ones, even when they were sturdy, were the poorest students...