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...types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down to Rio." "Music Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible. A fleet of airplanes was engaged for a finale with showgirls in gauze uniforms capering on their wings...
...Last month he shattered the English record of 246 winners in a season. He was still a long way from the world's record of 388 winners, ridden in 1906 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. But then no one. had broken the 300 mark since Vincent Powers 25 years...
Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...
...yard backstroke--Won by Vincent (W); second, James K. Hart '35 (W); third, Phineas M. Henry '36 (B). Time--32 3-5 seconds...
Dive--Won by Edmund Greene '35 (B); second, William H. Jefferys '36 (W); third, Vincent...