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...Bruno "the Italian living legend" Sammartino sprawls against the turnbuckle, the air knocked from his chest, the life gone out of his legs. Ivan "the Russian Bear" Koloff advances menacingly, his bald head and tattooed arms proclaiming unredeemable evil. With the 18-foot chain that binds them together, Koloff begins to strangle the World Champion of the east coast. He twists the Russian chain elaborately around Bruno's powerful throat...
...experienced crowd knows what must come next. Even as Koloff adds a twist to the chain, even as he forces Bruno farther into the ropes, the roar begins to build, cutting through the smoke and the beer and the disbelief. The obvious fakery and slapstick theatricality of the earlier bouts has been forgotten, swallowed up in screams for vengeance and blood...
...Finally Bruno wheels on his assailant. His meaty hand, riding on the roar of the crowd, smashes into Koloff's chest. Koloff staggers while the boy behind me, his band on the thigh of his hard-faced date, continues to shriek, "Kill, Bruno, Kill." Moments later, as Bruno smashes Koloff on the head with a wooden chair (not the Hollywood breakaway variety) the crowed swarms like jackals in a feeding frenzy against the plexiglass enclosing the ring. It is obvious that the mere defeat of the villain will not satisfy them--they howl for blood, for dismemberment...
Bunch of Cowboys. In 1936 Abravanel sailed for New York and, armed with letters of introduction from Conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler, got a job conducting at the Metropolitan Opera. He made his debut conducting Delibes' Lakme, starring Lily Pons. Two years later he quit to become Weill's music director on Broadway, conducting such classics as Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus...
Other films on the program are more interesting visually, but the most topically amusing short is one by Bruno Bozzeta called "Self-Service," a parable of industrialization, energy consumption, and insatiable greed. Mosquitos in search of a square meal keep trying to attach their snouts to a human's skin despite inevitable smushing. When the human falls asleep, skeeter entrepreneurs erect oil wells and canning factories to the gruntlement (that's the opposite of disgruntlement) of skeeters everywhere. But the human wakes up, and the gibbering insects flee to the sanctuary of a church, where the Great Fickle Finger...