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Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose...
George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, Illinois, has won for American Sinclair Lowis the Noble prize for literature. Irishman Bernard Shaw and Indian Rudyard Kipling are the only other English writing authors to be raised by these letters of nobility. This graceful gesture to contemporary American literature is something of a compliment. The United States is not usually looked upon as a nation of letters...
...years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down a set of stairs, he is certainly the foremost practitioner of that routine. The later or developed Robinson period is probably now at its zenith. No longer does the dancer depend on gyrations for his effect, but on an economical, effortless pedal rattattattoo which is accomplished sometimes standing still, some times with but one foot...
...that the Vagabond, erudite gentleman that he is, forthwith abandoned his quest. Not so. Instead he made a valiant effort to get in the mood for these mental hazzards. For instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey...
...years, the Dancing Masters of America enjoyed their season of greatest prestige five years ago when the Charleston craze was at its zenith. Before that the Dancing Masters had been comparatively a small organization. But the impetus given dancing by the crazy Negro jazz-jig was felt by hordes of people who had never before trod a ballroom floor. Schools by the hundreds mushroomed all over the land. Applicants deluged Dancing Masters for membership. Today they are the largest professional group in the world...