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...South, would have been a sportsman instead of a frustrated adman and then manager of his Yankee father-in-law's diaper factory. And particularly, in the Old South there would have been no Yankee manufacturer to corrupt the South's younger generation with show-off social vulgarity...
Some little bands should be seen but not heard. At the top of this category perch Perch Leroy ("Stuff") Smith, a colored show-off who composed I'se A-muggin', a song whose lyrics consist of counting and grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats...
...lowering her voice to a sepulchral baritone, leaning backward at an angle of 30° while combing her hair, ordering a midnight supper of two pork chops, Julienne potatoes, buttermilk, salted peanuts. Written seven years ago by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Craig's Wife and The Show-Off, Reflected Glory at least has the distinction of being Tallulah Bankhead's most creditable vehicle since her repatriation five years...
Running for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia in next week's primary, and virtually certain of victory, is a 45-year-old athlete whose name had hardly been heard of in politics until two years ago. John Bernard Kelly, brother of Playwright George Kelly (The Show-Off, Craig's Wife, Philip Goes Forth), learned to row on his native Schuylkill; won the singles sculling championship at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920; has 125 rowing championships to his credit. He married the female coach of water sports and canoeing at the University of Pennsylvania who bore him four children...