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...career he took only two weeks vacation each year, made it coincide with the dates of the tournament in which he wanted to play. Between 1911 and 1918 he rose from No. 10 to No. 4 of national singles players. In 1912, he and Harold H. Hackett won the national clay court doubles championship. He was thrice winner of the Middle States Singles Championship (1911-18-19), twice runner-up in the National Clay Court Singles...
...conscious. College being out of the question, when Floyd finished school he went to work in a candy factory, graduated (often by expulsion) to other jobs, till he gravitated into journalism. At 21 he was a reporter on the Chicago Evening Post, was soon assistant to brilliant young Francis Hackett on the Post's "Friday Literary Review" When Hackett left, Dell succeeded him. In 1913 he felt successful enough to seek his fortune in the wilds of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He became Max Eastman's assistant editor on the Masses, was a member of the committee...
They are Ted and Lulu Hackett, happy hoofers whose act improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs...
Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...
...unusual thing about Crawford on a tennis court is his flat-topped, thick-framed 14-oz. racquet, shaped like the racquets that were fashionable before the War. The fact that the name of Crawford's racquet is Alexander sometimes leads people to suppose it is one of the Hackett & Alexanders brought out by Spalding in 1912 and named for the famed U. S. doubles team of Harold Hackett & Fred Alexander. Shaped the same way, it is neither a relic nor a copy but a standard product of Alexander Racquet Co. of Launceton, Tasmania. Flat-topped racquets remained popular...