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About four years ago, a Boston badminton professional named George F. ("Jess") Willard visited Hollywood. Cinemagnates, always on the lookout for new fads, showed only less enthusiasm for learning the game than for telling the rest of the world all about what they had learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only...
...Most Hollywood badminton photographs exhibit it as an outdoor game. Actually, Hollywood is one of the few places where the vogue of badminton has taken root outdoors. Even there it belongs under cover, since the slightest breeze makes a badminton "bird" behave unpredictably. To offset this defect, Douglas Fairbanks has invented his own form of the game, with heavier bats and birds. Fairbanks badminton is named "Doug...
Once launched by Hollywood, badminton broke out all over the U. S. in patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average...
Produced by onetime Comedian Raymond Griffith, directed by Norman Taurog. Fifty Roads to Town's principal claim to a permanent niche in cinema history is that it includes Hollywood's first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession...
Definitely Hollywood's comic find of the year, Actor Gravet, who changed his name from Graavey lest "people get me mixed up with the national dish," is a 31-year-old French-Belgian, who learned his precise English at England's St. Paul's School which he attended during...