1923*
Top spot this month goes to Mox (professionally—John) Hubert, '23's excellent and comparatively recent contribution to the singing fraternity. A musical career was doubtless farthest from Mox's thoughts when he left Hanover and joined Bonbright & Co. of N. Y. However come Depresh No. 1 with security salesmen more than slightly obscured by the eight ball and Mox decided to pass up the unfertile field of finance and signed up to sing on a coast to coast vaudeville circuit, an experience which still remains a highlight in his life. In June 193 a Mox and Ruth Gordon of Pittsburgh "I do"ed and "I will"ed and settled down in New York Mox having selected the Electrolux Co. as a means of support that would not involve traveling. All went well for a year until he received a most flattering offer from CBS to sing on several radio shows in addition to an opportunity for some stage work. In 1938 he journeyed to England for an engagement at the London Casino, returning to New York that fall to open up in the Amen Corner, the cocktail room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He has been there ever since except for a summer booking with Manny Wolf's the announcement of which is reproduced here to verify this story for the particular benefit of those of us who, quite naturally may not remember Mox's fine baritone but will picture him only as a Barbary Coast banjoist—and a good one too. A quote from his recent letter provides a fitting wind-up for this article: "I singnightly except Sunday, and would like allDartmouth men to know that a round ofdrinks on the house awaits any party including a Dartmouth man—please stressthis with special emphasis to all 23'ers.
Each year about the time of the first snowfall in New England, there springs to life in the Boston Herald a winter sports column Riding the Ski Trails edited by our own Hen Moore. Several years ago it was published only once a week but with the tremendously increased popularity of skiing it has grown to a daily feature and on Friday Hen has a full page with detailed reports of weather prospects and skiing conditions throughout New England and Eastern Canada, so complete that it is a "must" for all winter sports devotees. Hen himself is an ardent and expert skier and spends as much time as he is able up in the ski country obtaining ground floor information for his articles. After the skiing is washed out in the spring Hen devotes the balance of the year to a daily fishing and hunting column With Rod and Gun. In these two he practices what he preaches and his articles on surf casting for sea bass are said to be largely responsible for the great growth of interest in this sport this past summer throughout New England.
Jerry Werner comes to light as the women's wear buyer of Wm. Taylor Son and Co., one of the very large department stores in Cleveland and incidentally the same store of which Chuck Calder was Manager of the Men's Wear Department prior to getting into the insurance business. Jerry got his start in the department store business with R. H. Macy and was also with Gimbels—Pittsburgh always in the women's apparel field. Henriette Chamansley of New York City became Mrs. Jerry in April of 1924 and their son Henry is now seven years old. Jerry's job requires many buying trips to New York but they are so crowded with business that he seldom gets an opportunity to look up anyone and he isn't able to take in any of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland luncheons, as they come on Saturdays, Jerry's alleged busy day. This inability to get together with any of the gang constitutes Jerry's first complaint, the only other being a chronic case of what he calls department store stomach, a malady brought on by low sales and high stock with the opposites the only known cure.
Jim McCabe crashes through with a peach of a letter. Jim is one of our few foreigners, being one of the big guns in the McCabe Bros. Grain Co., of St. Boniface, Manitoba. He writes that the past ten years have been very tough in the grain trade with no crops, no markets and strict Government supervision reducing earning power to zero minus, but hopefully remarks that last year was better from a crop standpoint and with a little luck they hope to get their teeth into some meat again. Jim's particular job is running a feed mill and string of warehouses, running west as far as Alberta. Having watched Canadian farmers go steadily broke for so many years Jim decided to observe the process first-hand and acquired a fifty acre farm a couple of years ago, on which he now has 300 chickens and 30 pigs. It is located between the highway and the Red River only five miles from his home and ten miles from the office and in time he hopes to build on the river and live there the year round. Jim's family consists of Mrs. McCabe, a thirteen year old daughter and two sons 7 and 5.
Jack Myers is real estating in Camden, N. J. as Sec. and Treas. of Chas. R. Myers & Co.... Dean Baker besides playing excellent golf and contract hasn't missed a major Dartmouth football game in years and even finds time to attend a gold refining business in Attleboro, Mass., the jewelry city. .. .our old hockeyer, Jock Osborne runs the Y and O Coal Cos. of Cleveland, married Toots Quail, Smith '23, his frequent house party guest of undergraduate days and reports have it that one of their two sons is a dead image of the old man George Whiteside sends along a newspaper picture captioned, "Maestro is Proud Papa" depicting Spike Hamilton playing nurse to his five months' old son.
George Mason, one of Worcester's leading legalites, as a member of the Vaughan Esty Clark and Crotty is also teaching mortgage and bankruptcy law at Northeastern Law School '23's chief headline filler Charlie Zimmerman continues lapping the field with a full column about his meeting with the Boston Assn. of Life Underwriters and a very recent blast published nationally unalterably opposing the invasion of the Federal Government in the field of life insurance control.
February, 1920
Exams over, Horace Pender's underlings in the athletic and non-athletic organizations and the D.O.C. boys launch a super-colossal Carnival for the College and eight hundred guests "Chasin' Around" is the Carnival show and if you try hard you may recall its hit tunes: "If Every Night Were Saturday Night," "Sands of the Nile" and "Somebody Knows.". .. .The Musical Clubs feature the "Midnight Sons" and "Scrap-Iron Four" specialties Dartmouth's ski team with Dick Bowler and John Carleton easily outpoints competitors. Carleton and Bowler thrill with somersaults off the Vale of Tempe jump and with Fred Harris '11 do a triple hand-in-hand leap Eddie Wettstein plays for the Carnival Ball and the good girls have their program cards signed for all twenty-eight of the "snappy one-steps, lilting fox trots and old-fashioned waltzes.". .. .The Boston and Maine runs the return special to New York four hours late and strands the Carnival girls in Springfield for the night More B. & M. trouble causes the cancellation some days later of big College Club lecture by Count Illya Tolstoy on "The Truth About Russia.". .. .A campaign to establish an honor system at Dartmouth fills the paper with accounts of systems at other colleges and letters to the editor.. .. . St. Paul's School beats both the varsity and 1923 teams at hockey. Comparative scores, 4-0 and 4-1, favor the freshman team Heinz Moore and Lew Lewinsohn make the Jack-o' with snappy art Tommy Thompson breaks the national record in the 70-yard hurdles but loses Olympic chances because of Canadian citizenship.
ln the shade of the Nugget, the Mint run by Ed Healy and Swede Youngstrom makes gold out of peanuts and pop corn. ....Craven Laycock, Professors Bolser and Morgan speak at first 1923 Smoker in College Hall Professor E. J. Bartlett retires after forty-two years of service to the College.
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JOHN HUBERT BARITONE Recently appearing at FIFTH AVENUE NOTH, NEW YORK and LONDON CASINO, LONDON Appealing nightly at 10 -12 and 2A. M. Except Sunday MANNY WOLF'S 201 E. 49th St, N. Y.
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