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Show MEMORIES REVIVED OF ROARING 20s who gave professional football a meal ticket In Red Grange. He put tennis on a gilt-edged basis, too. Ben Lyon, Ben Finney and Phil Plant wer th "big catches" among th dolls. Connie Bennett was th queen of th Hotel Plaza dansanta. John Coolldge had to play th littl gentleman on his week ends from college, because Pop was in th Whit House. Buddy Rogers graduated from Paramount! Acting Academy. Gen'l Smedley Butler left th marines ma-rines to mop up Philly, driving that burg's thirsty to B'way. The saloons began to glossy up, with, impressive floor shows: Gtlda Gray at th Rendezvous: Nlrska offered South Sra torsolng at the Moulin Rouge; Evan Burroughs Fontaine was nautching at the Palais Roy-ale; Roy-ale; Geraldine Karma was giving out with the Javanese at trie Gold Room of Beaux Arts; Emlllo Deliro and Irene Bordonl wer th eou-verts eou-verts at Club Maurice; Moaa and Fontanna wer gliding elegantly at th Mirador. B. Llilie, G. Lawrence Law-rence and Jack Buchanan captured th town and set It to warbling "Llmehoua Blues." Th dry period's worst curse, th nucjnade his appearance, With Guinea in th lead, th Island was night club crazy. Th columns began to cover them like polic stations. Girls mad copy Wilda Bennett, Lora Sonderson, Imogen Wilson, Kitty Ray. Gigolo Gigo-lo had plenty of work. .Waiter Winchell -PertraM at (Mnmiilst Taming Gray ' (A Broadway History f th Boar-tag Boar-tag Ms) Th decade opened with flappers worrying their parents by checking .'their excess toggery at dances, learning to Inhale and having their hair bobbed. Later they piled in -rumble seat! with a lad and a square bottl of gin. They rolled their bos and did th shimmy. Their goddesses wer Constance .Talmadge and Colleen Moor and, later, Clara Bow, who was given th name of "It Girl" by Godmother God-mother Elinor Glyn. Intellectual youths wer off to Paris, where - there were no bluenoses and lots of francs for a dollar. The first of the -Russky runaways Introduced vodka at the soirees. Gertrude Atherton coined the word "sophlttlcate," and Ted Lewis sponsored th laughing trombon. Nora Bay led the country In -tinging "Just Like a Gypsy." Z Broadway began to worry over "getting Bowery lied. Ther war 'Thought to Broadway," warning against th Increasing honky--tanks. Valentino's click had th T movies hiring every young man whose hair could tak a coating of Toil. Manhattan was slinking Into - brownston hideaways and gulping i. "poison" out of teacup. Bellhops wer getting $20 a quart for cor-Z cor-Z roeiv sublimate. Two low comedy -dry agents, lzxy and Mo, wer 'kicking in doors and switching into - more disguises than Ed Wynn. ITlbbett lifted th roof off th Met--ropolltan opera nous. Balleff ream ovr with Chauv Sourla and had everybody tapping to "Pared ;of th Wooden Soldiers." Th -danc mania was on full blast and Glide Gray waa th hottest gal In - town. Th romantics wer humming . "Pal Hands I Lov." ' The timesy loudmouths from -B'way got outsmarted by a yokel 'from Illinois named C C Pyle, |