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Built for $750,000, run on a non-profit basis with proceeds split between the State and the Delaware Steeplechase & Racing Association, Delaware Park (near Wilmington) aims to fill the gap in fashionable Eastern racing between the closing of Belmont Park in June, the opening of Saratoga in August. Noteworthy feature of the plant is a lawn that slopes sharply down from the grandstand to the track to permit spectators to see races without going back to their seats...
...odyssey the Smiths paid a 25?-a-mile rate and Carnaggio's hotel expenses. They put up $1,000 bond to permit the cab to enter Canada, followed Carnaggio's suggestion to detour and see the Dionne Quintuplets. In Manhattan they stayed a week at the Gramercy Park Hotel. Then Carnaggio put them on the Berengaria and Mr. Smith peeled off $625 plus a bottle of Mischief perfume, which he manufactures. On the trip the Smiths lost a Voigtlander camera. To show his thanks, Driver Carnaggio bought a new one for $30, mailed it to England. Then...
Elitch's Gardens is the great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death...
...England, and close to the top of summer theatricals, stands the Lakewood Theatre near Skowhegan. Me. Lakewood was established in 1901 to bolster up a trolley line. Herbert L. Swett had just taken charge of the five-mile line between Skowhegan and an amusement park on the shore of what was then called Hayden's Pond. On the grounds was an auditorium in which were held spiritualist meetings. Mr. Swett thought that a company of actors would encourage a larger volume of traffic for the carline, and he was right...
Meanwhile last week onetime AAAdministrator Davis, who once served as Montana's Commissioner of Agriculture & Labor, was glooming in Glacier National Park at a meeting of the Montana Bankers Association. He confessed that although on leaving AAA for the Federal Reserve Board he thought he was "sailing from a storm-tossed sea into a comparatively smooth and protected harbor." now, after a year, he was not so sure. Said he: "If another crisis finds the American banking system disorganized and ineffective, the American citizenry . . . may . . . seize a short cut. . . . Certainly public opinion at such a time will have scant...