Word: prize-fight
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...only is the stage no substitute for a well-proportioned prize-fight ring, but it is frightening to think that Cappucino and Camembert cheese may replace beer and hot dogs. At 8:35 a girl pointed to the folder on my table and asked, "Could I look at this?" I passed her the playbill, she studied it in confusion for a while, and finally returned it, saying, "Sorry, I thought it was the menu...
When he learns of their predictment and his wife's fears, he pleads with a famous surgeon to assist them. While the girl is giving birth to their child, the boy is earning the hospital expenses by hiring himself out as a set-up in a prize-fight. The baby is a boy and an heir to the check given by the doctor. Of course it is a weak plot, but the production simply proves what entertaining results can be accomplished through capable directing and clever dialogue...
...show, prize-fight, operatic concert, wrestling match, flower show, track meet, hockey game all these can follow in rapid succession in Boston Madison Square Garden, the new home of Harvard hockey...
Special features of the dinner will be the showing of Arthur Dane in "Rookies" and a film of the recent Dempsey-Tunney prize-fight...
...haired lady named Marie Stoddard had a great deal to say. A good many of her remarks were worth repeating--and the picture that she made should be held up to many women as a horrible example of several breaches of theatre etiquette. A prize-fight was scheduled to come in the first act but for some reason was left out until later. It could have been forgotten entirely with little loss...