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...consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument factory in Sweden but lives in Manhattan, promptly set to work to ballyhoo Sonja to Hollywood by way of a U.S. skating tour...
Died. John ("Old Itchfoot") Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890's, staked out the "Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...
...minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once invited by the late Tex Rickard to become a prizefighter with coaching by Jack Dempsey-who threw a steer in 10 seconds; Trick Rider Tad Lucas, who designs her own costumes, makes $12,000 a year, uses Black Narcissus perfume...
Only Theodore Roosevelt, III '36 and Charles F. Rickard '37 are missing from the 1934 roster...
Finding men to play halfback must be the least of the coach's worries. His '35 line of Captain Dorman, Roosevelt, and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 returns intact, while other replacements are to be found in Rickard and Bruce K. Fuller '36, former Junior Varsity players, and the Sophomore booters, Robert E. White, Carl Shirley, and J. Henry Alexandre...