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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People say Miss Talley acquired some half million dollars from her brief career. That may not be so good as Gene Tunney did, but at least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
...extremely uncharitable to make any remarks about the dancing in this production. But facts are facts, and we here go on record as saying that said dancing is if anything more flat-footed and uninteresting than that of past Pudding shows. H memory fails not, there was one good step; this was too bad, as consequences was to make the rest seem just so much more heavy. An individual tap dance by Pliny Jewell '30 was crowned with success, and made one wish for a few more like...
...outlanders the whole question of precedence and social rank in Washington seems silly. But as a British diplomat once said (with Irish logic): "Since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence...
Officials. By no means all officials are good performers. The unofficial stage managers quickly pick their favorites and offer them all the best engagements. Of the present Cabinet, Messrs. Stimson, Mellon, Adams, Lament and Mitchell are booked in advance. Only a few Senators and their wives hold the steady interest of Washington Society. Among these are Senators Bingham, Couzens, Edge, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Phipps, Shipstead, Wagner, Tydings. Senator Borah still moves at the edge of this group, an old lion whose mane and roaring once petrified and enchanted but are now too familiar to impress...
...attempt to suppress the freedom of the press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...