Word: prizefights
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...Galahad (Warner). Prizefight pictures, once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks...
Accustomed to staccato sports-reporting by U. S. announcers, U. S. radio listeners rarely get such a chance to sample the discursive style of English sports announcers as they did last week in an account of a prizefight at Harringay Arena in London, broadcast by Announcer Howard Marshall. Excerpts...
That pugilism's economics are wildly unconventional is a tradition of the sport. Last week, the tradition was upheld in two prizefight deals which are likely to be long remembered as champions of their types...
...that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower was the proper thing for a horse show and prizefight auditorium, a few U. S. artists began discovering the American Scene. Many of them were born in Philadelphia, most of them were influenced by the earlier painting of Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, all of them lived and worked in New York and within the past decade all of them...
This year, Long Island will lack both the World's Heavyweight Championship prizefight and the international yacht races which it has been taught to expect...