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...squeaky, nervous treble. He uses whip and spurs less than most young jockeys who are less canny with their hands, but he can ride a "strong" finish when he needs to. Only 4½ ft. tall, not much heavier than 92 to 95 Ib. on a jockey-room scales, pee-wee Jack Westrope may well satisfy his remaining ambition-to win the Kentucky Derby- before he needs to face a jockey's greatest problem, weight...
...subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London. The crisis that brings them...
...novelty of being an address that said something. It was a relief from the meaningless mouthings to which prominent men have treated the American public lately. The modern demagogue would have ranted endlessly about freedom of the press being a "glorious ideal cemented in the hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...
...hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?Pee...
...Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest. For 36 of the school's 64 years he has managed and governed St. Mark's, punished and rewarded socialite...