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Spectators (reading clockwise from upper left):
Lily Damita as one of
the audience. Next, Marian Marsh, Harry Nasland and
Jean Fenwick. Next, Nancy Carroll
and her husband. Miriam Hopkins and Austin Parker. Still friends and go around
together. Sid Bartlett and Alice White.
Participants: (Top) The finish of the 100 meter race. Tolan, U. S., first; Metcalfe, U. S., second; Jonath, Germany, and Simpson, U. S., third Well, we seem to be good runners anyway. (Middle row, left to right) Miller, U. S., winning pole vault at 14 feet 3 inches. The wrestling bout. (Lower) "Dutch" Smith, the high diving champion of the Olympics.
HOLLYWOOD OUTDID ITSELF IN ENTERTAINING THE OLYMPIC TEAMS
countrymen rushed from the stands, past police lines onto the field, carrying the Argentine flag, which they threw over the boy's shoulder, kissing him and hugging him.
No "god of ancient Greece ever fought harder for his country than did these boys during the Olympic Games.
It mattered not that a man won or lost in these games. It did matter, however, that he fought to the very last drop of human endurance. During the entire track and
field competition I did not see more than three men quit because they were hopelessly beaten. These boys did not know the meaning of the word quit. They gave their all, and not until that was gone were they beaten.
From the point of view of Hollywood, the games were a tremendous source of value. Not a day passed that did not see the stands containing every player of prominence who could possibly get away from the studio. The games
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