Whos Who at the Derby, Daily Racing Form, 1930-05-17

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Who s Who at the Derby Mrs Graham Fair Vanderbilt owner of the Fair Stable arrived from New York in her private car Governor Flem D Sampson came from the capitol at Frankfort in a private car and a private coach for Charles H Thie riot and a group of friends arrived from New York after a short stay at White Sulphur Springs Ya Tom McCarley widely known Tennessean and a party of friends came from Memphis and James Hopkins had another pri ¬ vate car from Gotham Dr E 1C Scarff Roy Siegel I F Boyd G A Wuest W B Goltra A P Titus E D Jones and M J Hackett came in private coaches from St Louis LouisWalter Walter J Salmon who has won two Preak nesses but has yet to win the coveted Ken ¬ tucky Derby arrived with a party of friends They stopped off at Lexington to visit his Mereworth Farm FarmAtlanta Atlanta Ga was represented when Jesse Draper a southern racing devotee arrived from the South with a party of friends There also was a special train from Chattanooga and Knoxville Tenn early this morning morningJohn John F Curry leader of Tammany Hall was one of the first to come from New York He arrived by private car from the metropoli ¬ tan city Tuesday and with a party of friends lias been enjoying the racing Count and Countess Guiglia of Italy and New York Mr and Mrs Edward Abbett of Covington and Mr and Mrs James Shelley pf Detroit are the guests of R A Wafhen f on Derby Day Theodore Mueller a member tof the gtate Racing Commission and Mrs Mueller are entertaining Mr and Mrs Henry Morrison Reed of Pittsburgh Pa and John Reed o Tiffany Ohio and Mr and Mrs E G Whita takerof Shanghai China ChinaFrom From Hartford Conn came Mr and Mrs Palmer Graham Mr and Mrs Samuel Riddle the owners of Man o War Miss Ella Riddle and Theodore Lincoln LincolnMiss Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield after enter ¬ taining a party of visitors at Haylands in Fayette County will motor here Saturday afternoon William E Smith vice chairman of tho State Racing Commission and Mrs Smith are entertaining Mr and Mrs William Ziegler Jr of New York Mr and Mrs Edward Murphy of Troy Mr and Mrs Walter Eaton Mr and Mrs L F Page Jr Mr and Mrs R E Tweedy Mario Corbel of New York and Dr A C Randolph of Virginia VirginiaThree Three aces in their known profession are not always found together but this occurred in the box of Col Fred Levy leading motion picture house owner of Louisville when Harry Warner head of Warner Brothers Carl Laemmle guiding head of Universal Pictures and Joseph I Schnitzer vice presi ¬ dent of RadioKeithOrpheum met metAnother Another party from fildom includes John J Murdock of the KeithAlbee circuit who entertained Pat Casey head of the Vaude ¬ ville Managers Association James Ryan of the Wurlitzer organization Dave Hunt Continued on fifteenth page WHOS WHO AT THE DERBY Continued from fourteenth page I scenic specialist Amendee Van Buren pro ¬ ducer of Town Topics and George Weedon who has not missed a Derby in forty years yearsTwo Two special cars from New York brought James Hopkins John Dare Charles Smith Lawrence Stern Dr F McDonald Joseph Hopkins John Murphy Frank McCormack Louis Alter Howard Merry Warner Cos grove Richard Moxley Frank McCabe Michael McNally Gene Cerf Edward Bowler Edward Ehleit N Vernon Benjamin and John Jaffe JaffeCharles Charles E Penn vice president of the American Tobacco Company has a large party of friends here for the classic classicClarence Clarence Saunders chain store owner is another to bring a party of friends He came from his home at Memphis Tenn TennT T J Pendergast of Kansas City who never misses a Derby has his family and a group of dayFormer friends on hand for tomorrows big day Former Senator A O Stanley of Kentucky arid his friend Levi Cook prominent Wash ¬ ington lawyer will be in the crowd Saturday SaturdayTytus Tytus Filipowicz Polish ambassador to the United States came from Washington ac ¬ companied by the secretary of the embassy Stanislaw Lepowski After remaining for sev eral days In the Blue Grass they will return to Washington WashingtonStopping Stopping off at French Lick for the night the parties making up five special trains are due to arrive at Louisville Saturday morn ¬ ing Included in the parties are those of the MidWest Club the Lakeshore Athletic Club the South Shore Athletic Club and that of the Chicago Athletic Association which re ¬ quired two special trains trainsThe The Medinah Temple Shriners had the largest delegation from the Windy City It required ten cars to transport their en ¬ thusiasts and included is a car for dancing a diner and a car for music motion pictures and other entertainment entertainmentR R M Eastman and a party of friends ar ¬ rived from Chicago today John B Drake of the Drake Hotel Chicago arrived with friends today todayDr Dr Frances X Cooper president of the In ¬ dian Refining Company came from New York stopping off at his home at Vincennes Ind IndJohn John A Hook of Indianapolis Ind presi ¬ dent of the Hook Drug Company gave a luncheon for his guests in the club house to ¬ day dayRodman Rodman Meachman one of the leading Ken ¬ tucky breeders and whose home is at Hop kinsville was the guest of B B Jones the owner of Gallant Knight and the Audley Farm FarmEdward Edward Cebrian and Chaffee Earl the for ¬ mer long an owner and breeder and the lat ¬ ter the owner of Naishapur whidh finished second in the 1929 Kentucky Derby are two of CaliforniaMr the representatives from California Mr and Mrs A P Canale of Memphis whose horses are quartered at Churchill Downs motored from the Tennessee city cityKenneth Kenneth Gilpin a Virginia breeder came from Lexington after stopping there for sev ¬ eral days daysJohn John J Coughlin Chicago alderman head ¬ ed CityC a delegation from the Windy City C T Matlack Tom and Jack Young John V Marr Henry Farmer Charles Marvin Gemmill Sneff John Judy Frank Rodes J L Tarlton Al Kane Kenneth Kane Horace Davis Tom Piatt Piatt Steele John Carr Andy Gorham Zewe Gorham Major T C McDowell James McClelland N H McClel ¬ land W C Goodloe Charles H Berryman George Warren George Terry Rodes Estill and many other Blue Grass breeders were Derby eve arrivals arrivalsVisitors Visitors who arrived here late Thursday by air included F Shanberg of the Midwest Theatrical Producers Association and R J Dick pilot of the Stinson monoplane which brought the pair from St Louis LouisLieutenant Lieutenant Casey Lambert also from St Louis and George C Pomeroy Mrs B G Dahlberg and Miss Rosie Dolly Davis all of Detroit reached Bowman Field on sched ¬ uled time timeOthers Others among the first arrivals at the field were Mr and Mrs T F Ryan who came from El Paso in a Cesna plane piloted by G C Quick QuickA A W Gorton formerly lieutenant in tile navy and the first aviator to attach a plane to the dirigible Los Angeles in midair and take off again arrived as pidt of the Ford trimotor which brought seven notables from Chicago His passengers were W B Boyd and F A Healey of the Curtis Publish ¬ ing ConTpany C C Winningham advertising executive Henry Staton of I W Thompson Co George Cain of the Swift Packing Company R S Laird of the Quaker Oats Company and H G Edmonds banker bankerApproximately Approximately 150 planes balloons and other air transports are due at the big Bow ¬ man Field during the next eighteen hours and in number the craft exceeds by about fifty those received there a year ago agoColonel Colonel Bradley will not be present for the Derby His physician advised him that it would be too much of a tax for him to view the race But he will listen in at his palatial home at Idle Hour Farm where a special hookup has been arranged so that he can receive a clear description1 of the mile and onequarter journey journeyE E P Waggoner a son of the owner ot The Three Ds Stable motored from his farm at Arlington Texas with a party of friends and will remain until the Three Ds horses are shipped to Washington Park ParkPhilip Philip Frankel Cleveland enthusiast and a party of friends were one of the first to arrive in a private car They arrived Thursday ThursdayM M J Francis of Windsor Ont Canada was one of the few Canadian sportsmen to forsake his Kings Plate for the Derby He arrived in his private car Friday night nightAn An added feature is the filming of the picture Big Boy in which Al Jolson an ardent turf devotee is the star starIvan Ivan St Johns assistant producer of Uni ¬ versal Pictures and John Wray star in Czar of Broadway were others of the picture colony that arrived froni California CaliforniaPat Pat Howe of Schenectady N Y rode a bicycle from his home a distance of 964 miles to be here for the Derby Twelve days were required for the 17yearold lad to make the trip


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