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While Capt. Leavy White was not as accurate as usual on his shots, he played a strong game and managed to ring the hoop three times before he was replaced by Louis McGowan late in the second period. Dampeer, Mason and Lavietes all handed in good performances, while Bill Gray was outstanding at center...
...ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
Engaged. Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), 34, onetime orchestra leader, onetime husband of Lois ("Lipstick") Long; and Mary Livingston ("Timmie") Lansing, Manhattan socialite. The first Mrs. Arno characterized her marriage as "one long, glorious hoop...
...late great Winslow Homer of Boston is represented by ten pictures. First-rate art was his fine painting of two ladies in hoop skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble...
...Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...