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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected to run around $200,000. The new attractions, Lott and Stoefen, will...
...natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games of the season he accounted for 532 yd. or more than a quarter of Minnesota's total ground gained by rushing. Minnesota's greatest ground-gainer, he can run 100 yd. in 12 sec. in uniform...
With new and startling individual acts, the specialties division of the Instrumental Clubs will appear before mystified audiences this year. Twenty-seven performers including a zither player have given the division new life...
...surface values and that Loretta Young, when she can control the wobblings of her lower lip, is an actress as skillful and sensitive as she is presentable. The best moments in The White Parade are those in which she is conducting a love affair with a Boston polo player (John Boles), which begins as a joke and ends in what most cinemaddicts are likely to mistake for tragedy. Good shot: Jane Darwell, as a gruff head nurse, persuading her superior not to oust Loretta two weeks before graduation...
Rules. Major rule change this year is a penalty shot, from a circle 38 ft. from the goal, awarded to a team when the referee finds its opponents guilty of tripping or otherwise fouling a player in on the goal. Long part of the game on the Pacific Coast, it replaces the National League regulation whereby, for the same offense, the guilty player went to the sidelines for five minutes...