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...Cooperstown with her husband's, but at Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt to the Bostwick brothers, Pete and Albert. Their able riding is partly due to training they received from herself and Mr. Clark. Pete Bostwick, before he decided to ride Dusty Foot, had the chance to be Kellsboro Jack's jockey last...
...distinction which is lacking. But there is plenty of good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which is sung by personable Evelyn Hoey (Fifty Million Frenchmen). Flashiest dancer is smiling Jimmy Ray, who fidgets and tapdances gracefully and silently. There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer. Lulu McConnell was born in Kansas City, Mo. - how many years ago she is unwilling to divulge. She worked with a local stock company, then in vaudeville for seven years. Her first experience in a revue was with Snapshots...
Psychologists credit man with the instinct of acquisitiveness, and never was psychology better vindicated than by those same facts and by stamp collecting in general. Even the Jackdaw of Rheims was no more given to this acquisitiveness than the Philatelists who amassed a collection of New Zealand stamps worth, a hundred-thousand dollars. So firmly is the hobby, or the fad, rooted in human nature that a firm of stamp dealers was willing to give practically that amount for the collection in a recent sale. And a similar Swiss firm has sent its principal to this country and widely advertised...
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With incidents quite as frequent and action and action quite as rapid came Lady Gregory's play, "The Jackdaw." A jackdaw, it should be premised, is a bird. Michael Cooney, out of goodness of heart, would rescue Mrs. Broderick, his old time friend, from the throes of debt. He tries to do so discreetly by entrusting for her ten pounds with Joseph Nestor, who cannot resist, when he sees Mrs. Broderick return from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole...