Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
Except for world-championship fights, amateur boxing draws larger crowds than professional boxing in the U. S. Current popularity of amateur matches focuses largely on the Golden Gloves tournaments, originated in 1927 by the New York Daily News and joined by its cousin, the Chicago Tribune, the following year...
Started as a circulation stunt, the Golden Gloves boosted not only the number of News readers but the standard of amateur boxing as well. By dividing all the fighters who had the desire and the necessary 25? to become amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood...
Last week, a crowd of 22,234-more than twice as many as turned out to see World Champion Joe Louis defend his title against Harry Thomas last month- trooped into the Chicago Stadium. What they had come to see were the international matches between the Chicago Golden Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States...
...offices of four Manhattan theatres controlled by Sam H. Grisman -the Forrest (Tobacco Road), the Belasco (Golden Boy), the Hudson (Whiteoaks), the Windsor (The Two Bouquets, opening May 31)- made U. S. theatrical history this week when they started selling tickets, not only for their own shows, but for the other three as well. The system, new to the U. S., has worked out well in Europe...