Word: kellerman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hippodrome last week, the ancient rafters that once shook for Diver Annette Kellerman shook again with shouts of mucho and arriba, as a cosmopolitan audience, looking like a first-night opera crowd, crammed into tiers of red & gold chairs, witnessed as exciting a jai-alai program as they had ever seen in any Latin country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four...
...become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling, had been its leading impresario ever since. For sportswriters who derided his favorite sport, Promoter Curley, famed...
...enter. Street & Smith's new picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...
Coaxed into posing together at the Miami Biltmore Hotel were George Ade, 71, oldtime Indiana humorist, lately recuperated from a lung infection, and Annette Kellerman, 49. oldtime exhibition natator. scheduled for a Miami exhibition next month. Mr. Ade. as quoted by Miami publicity men: "This is the first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson...
...discovered his real vocation in Chicago. He began by promoting Wrestler Frank Gotch, progressed by promoting the Johnson-Willard fight, William Jennings Bryan, Caruso, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, the U. S. tour of the Vatican Choir, Georges Carpentier, William Tilden, several dance marathons and a flea circus...