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Jack Dempsey's newly divorced Hannah Williams made a singing comeback on Broadway after 13 years' absence and several days on a soup diet. Her latterday debut a thwacking nightclub success, the hungry redhead looked forward to a steak as soon as her nerves lay down again...
Died. Leonor Fresnel Loree, 82, retired (1938) head of Delaware & Hudson Railroad; of a heart attack; at his mountain estate near West Orange, N.J. Among sleek, ICC-conscious latterday railroad presidents, massive (300-lb.), buffalo-bearded, uncompromising Leonor Loree seemed a gaudy symbol of the roaring '80s, when he began his long career. In 60 years he headed more roads, introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat...
About two years ago, jazz suddenly be came salable again in the U. S. The Jazz Revival occurred almost simultaneously with a series of Columbia records which spectacled Clarinetist Benny Goodman & band made in the winter of 1933, including such latterday masterpieces as Ain't Cha' Glad?, Riffin' the Scotch, Georgia Jubilee. While the big hotel and ballroom jobs still go to the big conventional organizations, small "hot" bands have lately been springing up in saloons all over Manhattan and Chicago. And whereas before 1932 the phonograph companies could count on selling only 1,000 copies...
Died. James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through...
...Exeter Academy, has been famed for its mature atmosphere which, with its size (660 students), makes it resemble a small college. Of late its physical expansion has been remarkable. Out of the alumni spirit which Headmaster Stearns succeeded in evoking grew the benefactions of Andover's most notable latterday friend, Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran. Football player, classmate of Headmaster Stearns (1890), Benefactor Cochran was a leader in establishing a pool from which the school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund...