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...Harold Sol Saxe, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...singing-actors. Some one asked him about artistic conditions in Russia and Chaliapin at once began a 15-minute soliloquy which no one could understand. He clasped his beautiful hands over his heart, nourished them wildly in the air. Newsmen sat spellbound until he finished, then asked Manager Sol Hurok to translate. Manager Hurok shrugged his shoulders: "Russia? Oh, it's just about the same...
Success Story (By John Howard Lawson; Group Theatre, producer). Sol Ginsberg had an insatiable thirst for success. When he first went to work for the advertising firm, he knew what he wanted. After he had ousted his gentile boss, spurned the boss's secretary who loved him and married the boss's mistress, he was sated, did not know what to do with himself next. The secretary settles that for him by shooting him dead...
...Japanese naturally excel in such oddities as hopping and skipping. Mikio Oda was champion in 1928. Little Chuhei Nambu, taped at the ankles and limping from his exertions in the broad jump, won again last week with a new world's record of 51 ft., 7 in. while Sol ("Happy") Furth, U. S. hopper who crossed the U. S. twice to compete in the Olympics, finished sixth. In Tokyo, street bands played the national anthem "Kimigayo...
...final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started back to California...