Word: jugglers
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Month ago nimble-witted Finance Minister T. V. Soong announced that for the first time since China became a Republic her dumbbell finances were whirling in a balanced rhythm (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week popular demands that China spend millions to fight Japan were enough to drive Juggler Soong frantic. Nonchalant instead, he reached for a lottery...
...bill were two U. S. acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk, able Eugene Goossens conducting. Both performances were consistently excellent. Minor parts were capably taken, the orchestra played smoothly, sets were effective, the lighting pleased. These essentials to good opera were in large measure the contribution of another Philadelphia...
...Lopez) was 8 he organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf course is a green...
...Author. Author Manuel Komroff, 39, married, was born in Manhattan, studied at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and School of Music, has been art critic, foreign correspondent, newspaper editor. Other books: The Grace of Lambs, Juggler's Kiss. Coronet is the January choice of the Literary Guild...