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...Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
...factors in his career McIntyre does not let his readers forget. One is that he and his wife suffered the harshest privations when they first arrived in Manhattan 23 years ago, after a knockabout newspaper career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that...
Playwright Coward is not to be found at fashionable resorts, as a rule, nor in social colyums. He likes beer. In spite of his knockabout experience, he is still given to emotional flights. Not long ago he rushed into Fred Astaire's dressing room. "Freddie!" he exclaimed. "When I see you dance I want...
...first race the outlandish Swedish knockabout Bachante, gathered her big spinnaker full of wind and kited away from the German yacht Kickerle, and the U. S. Tipler III, to win with a record margin of over 21 min. U. S. yachtsmen looked puzzled, German yachtsmen muttered grave gutturals. In the second and third races, Bachante readily repeated her first victory, thus cinching the Corinthian Yacht Club cup and the Marblehead trophy. Said a U. S. yachtsman wistfully: "We are glad that the Swedes won the big cup, but we are more grateful for what they have shown...
...anybody meaning with the intention of discovering a deep and profound symbolism, a meaning, or a moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...