Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Eastern threat to Crimson supremacy in eight-oared sprinting trailed nearly two lengths in the Bollesmen's wake, as a level-headed Varsity eight crushed Columbia's feeble bid for victory on the tide-swept Harlem last Saturday...
...Federal Theatre, which has three hits in Manhattan: the Living Newspaper ". . . one third of a nation . . .", a smashing exposure of slum conditions; what might be called the Living Pulp Magazine Haiti which, played in Harlem with all the stops pulled out, is whacking good melodrama; Prologue to Glory, no great shakes as a play, but redeemed by the acting of Stephen Courtleigh as the young Abe Lincoln...
...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
...courted popularity but not publicity. Among intimates he calls his father "the old man." Last week he completed arrangements for two broadcasts-one this week, when, as an ex-Harvard oarsman, he will help Ted Husing comment on the Columbia-Navy crew race on New York's Harlem River from a bus top; the other next week as guest of Vitalis ("Just think of the word vital and add i-s") hair preparation, when he will tell how it feels to be a President's son, a du Font's husband...
...land in celluloid. left St. Louis in the early Twenties to become and to remain the cabaret sensation of Europe. Like most of her ilk, she cannot sing, but she can dance, twisting her dusky body into unbelievable contortions in time to primitive rhythm. Though it smacks more of Harlem than of Africa, locale of the picture, her "La Conga" dance alone is enough to put the picture over...