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...male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage. The inevitable riot scene, in which the carnival personnel squeals "Hey Rube!" and Poochy is left in a tent which catches fire, serves for a climax. Sportswriter Grantland Rice's daughter Florence, who began her acting career as Snow Queen in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival of 1928 does well in a brief sequence as a trained nurse...
...younger brother of Capt. 'Tat" Roark, famed British Internationalist. Born in Ireland's County Carlow, he is now a U. S. citizen, a cinema executive (Twentieth Century) in Hollywood. Forced off the team at the last moment by an attack of rheumatism was H. W. ("Rube") Williams who distinguished himself by his fine playing in the East-West games last year until he fractured his leg in the second game...
Equipped with all the trick devices of modern science, so that a press on a button brings about wonders, the new Cambridge Central Fire Station is a glorified Rube Goldberg invention, functioning with the precision but with hardly the complication of that noble gentleman's infernal machines...
...Motormaker Walter P. Chrysler, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Radioman Merlin Hall Aylesworth and an English osteopath named W. H. J. Oxenham were to make up a foursome for an afternoon of golf, the osteopath would probably win. What would make such a victory remarkable is the fact that Osteopath Oxenham is totally blind. Last week at the West Hove Club near Brighton, England he was awarded a handicap of 20, which approximates the handicaps allotted to Messrs. Chrysler, Goldberg, Aylesworth, many & many another duffer who has good eyes to keep on the ball...
...Connie Mack had to do again what he had done in 1914-break up his team. With tears in his eyes he reeled off as fast as he could the names of the players he was selling. Out went Pitcher "Lefty" Grove and Catcher "Mickey" Cochrane. Out went Pitchers "Rube"' Walberg & George Earnshaw and Second Baseman Max Bishop. In came three new players and $295,000 in cash. Then Manager Mack strode from the room, took refuge in the suite of Tom Yawkey who had paid him $160,000 for Grove, Walberg and Bishop...