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...Both have well-to-do Negro managers, a rarity for Negro boxers. Lewis' is Gus Greenlee, whose other interests include the Pittsburgh Crawfords, a Negro professional baseball team. Both are trained by bald Jack Blackburn, famed 30 years ago as a lightweight fighter and currently as a Svengali of Negro pugilists...
...fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience rushed forward for the encores to see just how she did it. Few people noticed a bald, dark-skinned little man who sat half-hidden behind the Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with Svengali-like intentness. He was her father who might have been a concert violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring...
Died. Wilton Lackaye, 69, famed actor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Famed chiefly for his role of Svengali in Du Maurier's Trilby (1895), he played for years on Broadway. One of the founders of the Actors' Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed...
Certain she would say no naughty things, a young lady last week let an indiscreet young man demonstrate his hypnotic powers on her at a "psychology" party of Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) students. When the proud young Svengali suggested "Wake up!" she failed to respond. Not until 45 min. later did she rouse herself naturally. The incident frightened the experimental psychologists so thoroughly that Adelene Bowie, dean of women, noticed the commotion. Forthwith she strictly forbade any more such pranks...
...been renewed. Warner Bros, had their profits from his activities on the screen enhanced by Barrymore's discovery of Marian Marsh. He chose her on the strength of an appearance which slightly resembles that of Mrs. John Barrymore (Dolores Costello) to play the lead in Svengali. Cinemactress Marsh did well enough to earn a long term contract; in her next picture, she will be the star...