Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swen Olsen...
...credible source, I am passing it on to you for verification - with the thought in mind that, if true, it might be equally interesting to you. The story goes around through our northern Scandinavian country that the real name of our great bandmaster, John Philip Sousa, is Swen Olsen. It was his custom, in traveling about the world, to mark his luggage with his initials, S. O. followed on the same line with U. S. A., for United States of America. From this evolved his name Sousa, which no doubt to his mind was a grander name for a world...
Loquacious, Kudlooktoo confessed not only to his tribe but (previously) to the missionary who converted him, Jens Olsen. Danish Jens Olsen naturally considered that after Kudlooktoo's public confession no secrecy attached to what he had confessed in private. Soon famed Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
...much) and she never danced better (which is saying everything). She seems to enjoy herself during working hours as does no other actress. Her assisting celebrities are Jack Donahue (funny), Clifton Webb, Mary Hay, Joseph Cawthorn, Dorothy Francis, Pert Kelton (new and welcome), Jerome Kern (who wrote the music), Olsen's Band (who play it), and Ukelele...
...Fields, Will Rogers, Ray Dooley, Olsen's Band, Vivienne Segal remain. Added are Edna Leedom, Lina Basquette and various ladies fair...