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...driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
...Wonderland is the Saratoga of U.S. dog tracks. Compared to London's famed White City track, where crowds of 90,000 are not uncommon, it is only a pup. But of America's 40-odd legalized courses, Wonderland is by far the biggest and most profitable. Its pari-mutuel handle for one night often exceeds the totals of Florida's nine tracks. Last summer, in 100 race nights, nearly $20,000,000 was bet at Wonderland...
...Wonderland...
Directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, associate professor of music, the choruses collaborated on Randall Thompson's "Alleluia" and "Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland," by Irving G. Fine '36. Other highlights of the program were Allegri's "Miserere" and Masonic music of Mozart...
Elsewhere in Wonderland arose the question of cinemacting's importance in total war. Raising the question was Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who appealed the i-A draft classification of Mickey Rooney-first such appeal made by the industry. Grounds: he is an essential worker in an essential industry. Rooney's mother made it plain that her son was not doing the appealing himself. "It is true that he is only five feet tall, and has been bothered with heart flutter and high blood pressure," said she, "but Mickey wouldn't try to dodge his classification." Said Mickey...