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...planting of an avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock...
Jibed Madrid's Sol: "Nowhere have the police and judicial organizations given more manifest proof of impotence than in the U. S." Paris' Jour informed its readers that U. S. law "has proved insufficient to protect against gangsters men whose glory shines upon their country...
Most irrepressible of U. S. music managers is a thickset, moon-faced Russian who travels every year to Europe, observes more new talent, signs more big new conracts than any one man in his risky profession. Solomon ("Sol") Hurok has always had a weakness for Russian perormers. He has managed Efrem Zimbalst, Mischa Elman, Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Pavlova. He spent $75,000 to import the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). Last week in Manhattan Manager Hurok introduced still more Russians: 19 choristers from Paris who call themselves the Moscow Cathedral Choir...
Because Russian choruses generally draw big audiences, Manager Sol Hurok ran little risk when he imported the Moscow singers, sent them out to tour. But risks have never frightened that ebullient impresario who arrived in the U. S. 32 years ago, knowing no English and with less than $2 in his pocket. Young Sol Hurok peddled needles & pins, worked in a mattress factory, a bottle factory, a crockery store, heard music whenever he could. When a Brooklyn charity wanted to give a series of concerts Sol Hurok undertook to engage the artists. At 21 he rented huge Madison Square Garden...
...Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo audiences, whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that...