Word: horsecars
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...which joined with that of Peter Cooper, Abram Hewitt and Peter Cooper Hewitt to produce her, Ann Cooper Hewitt last week made the following affidavit, which was promptly confirmed by oldtime San Franciscans: "While my mother has always boasted of her Southern aristocracy, she was the daughter . . . of a horsecar driver in San Francisco who lived in a flat over a corner grocery store when she was a girl...
...Great Jasper (RKO) is Jasper Horn (Richard Dix), a swaggering horsecar conductor, burdened with a solemn, shrewish wife and blessed with a gracious though dangerous mistress. The mistress is dangerous because she is the wife of Jasper's employer. When the employer finds out, Jasper goes off to Atlantic City, sets up as an astrologer "for women only," wonders light-heartedly why his wife, who comes to Atlantic City also and independently opens a hot-dog stand, disapproves...
...Good Old Horsecar Days" presents three rummies singing a close relative to "Sweet Adeline" against an old-fashioned bar. There is also a travesty directed at the Metropolitan Opera Company, which is represented as producing Carmen with the assistance of Burlesque's Brothers Minsky. "For Better or Worse" seems the most tuneful musical number...
...have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants a novelist's final absolution to the world...
...California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe that Jim Dandy would stand much show with Gallant Fox day in & day out. Some have compared him to Man o' War, but with Man o' War's racing shadow...