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Broadway Nights. A cabaret piano-pounder (Sam Hardy) teaches his pretty wife (Lois Wilson) the steps and tunes that lead to the top of the song-and-dance heap. Unfortunately, he permits rolling dice to crush his moral fibre, so she leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario...
...wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President's prize catch weighed one and seven-eighths pounds, was considered large for Squaw Creek. But it was recalled that President Roosevelt, fishing in another Black Hills stream, had caught an eight-pounder, established a mark to shoot...
...more-than-six-foot 200-pounder stood upon the stage of the Four Cohans' Theatre in Chicago last week. His paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough...
...election of John Edgar Evans '30, of Ebensburg, Penn., to the captaincy of the Freshman wrestling team by his teammates at a dinner after the Andover meet was announced last night. Evans is a star 135 pounder, capably taking his event in both of the season's meets. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy...
Although considerably weakened by the absence of Joseph Lifrak '29, star 145 pounder, Captain Wood's men had little trouble in gaining three decisions and a fall over their opponents...