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...cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded-Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld-was the second of her cinema career. In addition to giving the best performance of the year in The Great Ziegfeld, Luise Rainer (rhymes with "shiner") gave highly distinguished ones in her first picture, Escapade, in which, newly arrived from Vienna, she became a star overnight when Myrna Loy refused to play the lead, and in The Good Earth, released too late for consideration last week. In one of the busiest 1936s in or out of the cinema...
Early in the first half Gray's eye came into violent contact with a Columbian's head during a scrimmage; and yesterday the results of this crash were clearly evident in the beautiful shiner the Harvard leader was carrying around with him. During that game it was more than just a black eye; he got a nasty cut as well. The Lions were not rid of him, however, for he was back in there after a couple of minutes and went driving in again and again through the Columbia defense...
Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...
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...competition which is to be held about Nov. 1. The entrants are: E. B. Brady '21, C. Brinton '19, C. W. Carter, Jr., '20, C. B. Fuller '19, E. Griffin '16, R. L. Humber 2G., J. R. Laver '20, a. S. Potter '17, F. V. Scholes '19, W. A. Shiner '18, A. N. Small '16, N. C. Starr '17, H. B. Van Fleet '20, D. V. Widder '20, C. G. Youngblatt...