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...George Abbott, an able and versatile trio. At the first night Tex Rickard was found babbling enthusiastically in the lobby which produced a rumor to the effect that he was backing the show.* Right beside Ringside will open The Big Fight, starring Tex Rickard's onetime breadwinner, Jack Dempsey, et ux.; thus providing theatre-goers with an example of dramatic coincidence and the opportunity to show whether they prefer a good approximation to the real thing...
Francis Xavier Schwab, genial mayor of Buffalo, met austere Producer David Belasco for the first time last week, at the tryout of Belasco's The Big Fight (in which Pugilist Jack Dempsey is a star). The mayor, pleased, told his chauffeur to go out and get a gold key to the city. This done, Mayor Schwab solemnly said: "I present this key as a mark of esteem from Buffalo and hope, Mr. Belasco, that you will return here countless times with premieres of your matchless plays." Solemnly, Producer Belasco answered: "It is always a pleasure to come to Buffalo...
John the Barber is a gambler now somewhat obscure. He was Dempsey's first manager. Later (1919) he was connected with the Black Sox baseball scandal and is alleged to have profited by racehorse tampering...
Jerry the Greek, alias Jerry the Rubber, Jerry Luvadis, is a less shady character. Incapable of reading or writing, he is a trainer of Jack Dempsey, is famed for a perfume stronger than ammonia which he uses in large quantities...
...Straton attended the Dempsey-Carpentier fight and described it from his pulpit. More members of his flock skipped...