Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Figures. One answer was suggested by statistics. Mark Sullivan, G. O. P. writer, took pains to show that Herbert Hoover had needed only 275,000 more votes, properly distributed, to get the electoral votes of the eight-State fragment that he lacked of a State-unanimous election. As easily, the New York World, and Professor Frank G. Dickenson of the University of Illinois, showed that Governor Smith lacked only some 354,000 votes, properly placed-about 1% of the total votes cast-to be elected President with 268 electoral votes...
...Except Jack Kearns, whilom manager of Pugilist Jack Dempsey, who, knowing nothing of the theatre, was persuaded by a friend to buy two tickets for the show a fortnight ago, was one of an audience of 20 persons, was laughed at for his ignorance by many a Broadwayfaring friend...
Treasure Girl. As soon as Beatrice Lillie, her onetime co-star in The Chariot Revue, had opened in Manhattan (see This Year of Grace) Gertrude Lawrence opened in a musical show of her own called Treasure Girl. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly the most consistently beautiful of all modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than...
...paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...
...order to show his players how to handle a wet football, famed Coach Chick Meehan of New York University drenched several with a garden hose and gave them to his squad for practice, on a sunny afternoon...