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...nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

George B. Cortelyou, President of the Gas Company, had arranged a last performance in the famous place. Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paderewski Sails | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...planned Captain Jinks, I would have made some radical changes. Instead of the present dancing costumes, I should have had the chorus doing the Charleston in crinolines, or in hoop skirts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PUBLIC WANTS MUSICAL COMEDY", SAYS ADA MAY | 3/25/1926 | See Source »

...baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target, the fisherman to drop his bait in the a yard-wide hoop, the baseman to hit a tub as wide as a man's chest, and the golfer to sink is putt. Imagine it, said the The New York Evening World, and forthwith, over the last nine holes of the Belleclaire Country Club, L.I., thet hing came to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unique Contest | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

With Smith being watched closely by the visitors' defence, it was Captain Samborski and Leekley who shared the scoring honors. They tallied ten and nine points respectively. Smith broke away near the end of the contest to drop the ball through the hoop twice in rapid succession. Bay lock, diminutive forward who starred for the Connecticut five, scored seven points, as did his teammate Makofski, who netted the ball three times from the middle of the floor in the last period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FIVE WINS FROM CONNECTICUT | 3/5/1925 | See Source »

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