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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert Howell, whose trick improvisations on ukulele, violin, and portable organ brought loud applause even from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Atavism | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...week Cordials & Beverages continued in its accustomed, wide-open, prosperous way. The U. S. District Attorney's office said it had evidence of a purchase made there, said that the case would be tried "in regular order" after an indictment had been obtained from a grand jury. One Mike at the liquor store scoffed at the idea that Federal agents would molest him, arranged for liquor deliveries a week in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Cordials & Beverages, Cont. | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...preparation for this afternoon B. U. has held several practice encounters between the first and second teams, In these games the B. U. squad showed promise of being a decidedly hard-hitting group. Sports writers call it the hardest batting Pioneer team for five years. Mike Judkins, at first base for B. U. is one of the strongest batsmen of the squad. Rated close to him in excellence in wielding the stick is Del Pickard who will catch today's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND B. U. OPEN BALL SEASON THIS AFTERNOON | 4/4/1930 | See Source »

...have taken three eights, but Smith just did what he wanted to, and saw his name put up in first place when he posted his score-Horton Smith, unattached. His score was 278, Jones', 279. Four days later, at Orlando, he won the Central Florida Open, beating Mike Turnesa and Harry Cooper by two strokes apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Smith 278; Jones 279 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Blood, famed killer of Gambler Rosenthal, was in Mike's public school class. Some of Mike's pals grew up to be rich; one of them became a gunman. Mike ends his own story at the point where he tired of selling papers and began to look for a job-not because he wanted to be rich (he hated capitalism) but to stay alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghetto | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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