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Ballyhoo. For the first time a musicomedy has been based on the somewhat amusing Bunion Derbies (1928 and 1929) of Promoter C. C. Pyle. In Ballyhoo the promoter of the transcontinental footrace is Q. Q. Quale (William Claude Duganfield, better known as W. C. Fields). Funnyman Fields exhibits a rich form of comedy which appeals freshly because his foibles and frustrations are the sort that take place in life, never in the theatre. As may be expected...
Died. Joseph Gilpin Pyle, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., librarian of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library; onetime (1899-1903) editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and of the St. Paul Globe (1895-98, 1903-05); in St. Paul...
...fast time of 2 hr. 18 min. 40 sec., 4 min. 50 sec. ahead of the U. S. team of Joie Ray and Johnny Salo. Marathon followers took due note of the victory, recalling that small, wiry Gavuzzi had run two years ago in C. C. Pyle's Bunion Derby and had done well enough...
...brink of tears, Miss Pyle said: ''While I feel disappointment and surprise in not receiving the nomination, such disappointment and surprise, of course, is a necessary ingredient of a convention of this character...
South Dakota Republicans met at Pierre last week to nominate a governor, none of the five candidates in last fortnight's primary having polled the 35% of the total vote required for nomination (TIME, May 19). No. 1 in the primary had been Secretary of State Gladys Pyle, running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing...