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...good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which is sung by personable Evelyn Hoey (Fifty Million Frenchmen). Flashiest dancer is smiling Jimmy Ray, who fidgets and tapdances gracefully and silently. There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer. Lulu McConnell was born in Kansas City, Mo. - how many years ago she is unwilling to divulge. She worked with a local stock company, then in vaudeville for seven years. Her first experience in a revue was with Snapshots of 1922, since which time she has alternated between musicomedy...
...Midget Cigarsalesman Herbert Barnett (32 yrs., 50 lb., 30 in.) did not have his own clubs with him. He had to play around with a 35-in. putter, did badly. He said: "What could you expect? The only full-size article I use is a Meditation Cigar...
...Midget Albie Booth silenced critics who claimed Yale was saving him for the Army, Harvard and Princeton games. He eeled through for one touchdown and dropkicked a 25-yd. field goal while he and his friends were beating the Brown huskies who had beaten Princeton the week before. Yale 21, Brown...
...Herbert ("Bantam") Austin, maker of sturdy seven-horsepower midget cars, crowed like a full-sized rooster last week over the British Institution of Automobile Engineers of which this year he is President...
...British public is using cars which are less efficient and less comfortable than those used by the public of any other country! Britain seems to have no automobile export trade except for high-priced or midget cars and presumably never will as long as the system of taxation compels British manufacturers to design inefficient machines...