Word: prizefights
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...Prizefight...
Londoners will queue up for anything from a prizefight to a prime rib, but this time they established a record even for London: they queued up to start a queue. Carrying blankets and food, the first of them began lining up outside the Royal Festival Hall 60 hours in advance. They were allowed to sleep overnight in a corridor. Then the real queue began in front of the box office. In such fashion last week, London music lovers awaited the first English appearance since 1939 of Arturo Toscanini...
...sponsor the entire cost of the program, plus commissions. In taking over a 45-minute nighttime period next month, the Republicans must not only pay an $80,000 rebate to Pabst beer, but also take the risk of irritating and alienating voters who had been expecting to watch a prizefight rather than Eisenhower...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...scenes. It also makes a few telling points about intolerance with some blunt sequences, shot in & around actual Los Angeles locations, of discrimination against Mexican-Americans in drive-in restaurants, bars and skating rinks. Lalo Rios as the boy, Rita Moreno as his girl and Gerald Mohr as a prizefight manager play their parts naturally. The Ring is no main bout, but it is a thoroughly satisfactory preliminary...