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Rowing in the second boat will be: sophomore Sam Perry, at bow; junior Pete Cummin, at two; sophomore Pete Walker, at three; senior Bob Clement, at four; sophomore Tom Shapiro, at five; junior Sarg Cheever, at six; sophomore Stu Gauld, at seven; sophomore Galen Brewster, at stroke; and senior Dave Perkins...
...club requiring three-letter first names). Growing up in Detroit, the son of a chemical engineer, Bil built a puppet-populated miniature city for his friends in a vacant lot. He continued puppeteering apace through the State University of Iowa, wound up as assistant to famed Puppeteer Tony Sarg. One of his duties: nursing Sarg's monster Macy's parade balloons from a taxicab filled with helium tanks, while warding off BB gun snipers along the route...
Died. Tony (Anthony Frederick) Sarg. 59, marionette maker, book illustrator; of peritonitis, caused by a ruptured appendix; in Manhattan. Born of a German father and British mother in Guatemala, he was educated in Germany, came to the U.S. in 1915. In pre-Disney days he designed popular marionette shows and picture books, pioneered in animated cartoons, but his most popular creations were his balloons for R. H. Macy's annual Manhattan Thanksgiving Parade...
Other Great Lakes Exposition attractions are Winterland, a big skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...
...Atlantic City's Steel Pier offers not only cinema, minstrel shows, a zoo, a World War museum, a haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many...