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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While elimination races in the University Spring Handicap meet were being held under yesterday's threatening skies, two field event men, Johnny Dean and Jo Fobes captured the shot put and javelin titles. Dean tossed the 16-pound shot 46 feet 5 1-4 inches, two feet further than Jack Healey and Mac Millard. Fobes' victory in the javelin came as a result of his handicap over Howard Harrington who heaved it 190 feet...
Miss Landis has played opposite Otis Skinner and Dennis King; she is also known for her performance of Jo in "Little Women...
...final extermination of that plague. The history of the Yellow Fever Commission made one of the most exciting chapters in Paul de Kruif's brilliant Microbe Hunters.* In the theatre, Sidney Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities...
...about the Municipal Show. In 33 multicolored galleries were decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...
Dodsworth's dramatic impact is cerebral rather than physical. Some of Designer Jo Mielziner's eight crafty settings are repeated to mount 14 scenes on shipboard, in Zenith, Paris, Berlin, Naples, London, Switzerland. Occasional lack of restraint in the direction is well covered by the acting of Fay Bainter and Walter...