Word: gymnastic
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...Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry one Byron Mitchell, San Francisco gymnasium instructor. Judgment Awarded. To Myrtle St. Pierre: $5,000 in her $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, husband...
...acrobat!" shouted an enlisted man. Kicking and waving his arms as he fell, Sailor Nigel M. Henton, the training station's best gymnast, bounced on the hard-packed earth in a little puff of dust. Ambulances which soon came shrieking up were not needed...
Alfredo Codona, world's No. 1 trapezist since the death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore...
Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...HICHENS GLIMSTEAD Medical Gymnast...