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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn...
...holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...