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Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...
...rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains...
...Elvin E. Overton, Dean of Mercer University Law School, Macon, G.; Jacobus ten-Broek, of Berkeley, Calif., LL.B. '38, University of California; Ernst H. Schopflocher, of Madison, Wis., J.U.D. '20, Erlangen-Bavaria, LL.B. '40, University of Wisconsin; Joseph Gold, of London, England, LL.B. '35, LL.M. '36, University of London; Selig J. Seligman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; Lewis B. Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George H. Schuller, New Haven...
Arnold Gottlieb, of Brooklyn, New York; James B. McMillen, of McDonald, North Carolina; William T. Miller, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Michael E. Mooney, of Dorchester; Lamar N. Ostrander, of Olympia, Washington; Paul Roberts, of New York; Herbert Robinson, of New York; Selig J. Seligman, of New York; land Daniel F. Sullivan, of Newport; Rhode Island...
...role of Satan in Bengal Tiger was largely performed by a tiger actually named Satan and actually reputed to be the meanest in captivity. For some dangerous sequences Barton MacLane had a double; for others Satan did. Satan's double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real...