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A diversified entertainment program is being devised for the indoor prairie fiesta entitled "The Round-Up," which will be given the night of May 26 at the Park Lane in behalf of the Madison Square Boys' Club. Stars of the theatre, concert stage and radio will contribute their services for the occasion.
OF the making of books on the Far East there has been no end since Pearl Harbor; and quality in this field has not always kept pace with quantity. Both the volumes under review, however, although brief in compass, have something original to offer in the interpretation of the complex Far Eastern pattern.
President Manuel Prado of Peru attended the racing at Belmont Park yesterday to see Attention capture the forty-ninth Metropolitan Handicap and to present a silver trophy, which was his gift to President George D. Widener of the Westchester Racing Association. Mr. Widener promptly made the trophy the perpetual prize for the famous mile run which stretches back through New York's racing history to the old days at Morris Park.
Dewey endorsed for Gov; election; platform
1942Taj Mahal, American blues singer-songwriter and musician[†]
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.