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...Iravatha. His specialty is tricks, best of which, stepping over a prostrate child, he executes in Elephant Boy. Toomai's real name is Sabu. Brought back to London to play parts in future London Films, he currently has a smart London apartment, drives about in his own midget...
...some genuinely entertaining moments. Most professional episode is a ballet called "Renaissance," ably danced by talented and personable Grace & Kurt Graff. A little chocolate drop named Baby Marie Brown steals the first act finale, Grandma's Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best of which is the production's theme song...
Given a junket to Manhattan by his grateful underlings, Midget Charles Robert Lockhart, 3 ft. 9 in., State Treasurer of Texas, made a round of night clubs and burlesque shows, happily declared: "I'm going to have a good time while I'm here. After all, it doesn't cost me a damned thing...
...first short-wave set ever operated in the Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery was visible, however, Zenith had accumulated a deficit of $750,000. Then President McDonald began to expand as fast...
...Duke Nalon, Chicago midget-auto driver: a five-mile race that inaugurated the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium as a midget track, drew the biggest crowd for a professional sport event in Philadelphia since the Dempsey-Tunney fight...