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...office which he won as Herbert Hoover's running-mate in 1928 overwhelmed this onetime jockey and grandson of a Kaw Indian with a vast new selfimportance. He presided over the Senate with imposing dignity, began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...
...scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore (Top Haf) and an amiable seal. Good shot: Blore & seal gazing reproachfully at Miss Pons, who has stolen the seal...
Year ago the California Jockey Club, headed by Novelist Peter B. Kyne, baptized the new $500,000 Bay Meadows track, 20 miles out of San Francisco, with high hopes. Promptly these hopes were dashed. Rain always transformed the new track into a morass of mud which always dried out hard as rock, ruined the hoofs of many a horse, the disposition of many a jockey...
...Smoky" Saunders' story was that Mrs. Sliwinski had consumed too many gin bucks, got sick, was let out of the car. After that, said the jockey, they might have run over her, but he did not know since Schaeffer was driving...