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...means sitting in the last row of the second balcony, here is one show that shouldn't be missed. Gershwin's rich portrayal of American Negro life, while bearing as little resemblance to real conditions and problems facing the black man in the United States as "Alice in Wonderland," still packs into a space of two hours the best of the composer's contributions to native American melody...
...time these 'Alice in Wonderland' admen learned, and told the cockeyed world . . . that war ... is being fought by guys who are dirty, with crawly beards and torn pants. Guys who are too hot or too cold, soaked to the skin or short of water, stinking with sweat, filthy with mud. . . . Guys who light up but seldom relax...
Most U.S. dog tracks have a bad smell. Wonderland was no exception. Originally backed by Al Capone interests who knew how to get along with politicians, the track started out as a wonderful racket. Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff...
...Wonderland's customers seem not to care. The admission price is cheap (25?), the atmosphere breezy, the races honest. Moreover, when a Bostonian "goes to the dogs," he knows he is salting away something for somebody's (if not his own) old age. The State of Massachusetts uses its dog-track "take" for its Old Age Pension Fund...
With good purses ($200 to $5,000) Wonderland attracts the fastest U.S. racing dogs. Fastest is Never Roll, a four-year-old owned by H. B. Diamond of St. Petersburg, Fla. Last summer at Wonderland, Never Roll won 17 of 24 races, broke four world's records at distances from 330 to 770 yards. Boston's dog fans expect even greater things of Never Roll this year. A few weeks ago, during a schooling race, he ran 100 yards in 5.275 seconds. World's record...