Word: prizefights
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Thos. Cook & Son, tourist agents, last week finished arrangements for the first organized U. S. air tour-from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, to Chicago, where the tourists are to see the forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside...
When Anne Morgan staged a prizefight in Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the War-wracked French peasants, it was not because she was a spinster who had sublimated her activities in "uplift" work. It was because she was a self-determined business woman and a fight was a good stunt. And today, at 54, she more than ever represents and leads independent members of her sex. A business woman, says Miss Morgan, is best characterized by "her utter disregard of business habits...
...into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...
CANDIDA-One of Shaw's earliest and best, featuring Katherine Cornell, becomes a leading popular as well as artistic success. SHE HAD TO KNOW-Grace George discovers in a delightfully amusing manner whether or not a woman can be too virtuous or too attractive. Is ZAT So?-A prizefight parable takes place in a Fifth Avenue home. Terribly tough and terribly funny. THE GUARDSMAN-Suave and sentient comedy of home life among the actors played perfectly by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. THE FIREBRAND-Benvenuto Cellini indulges in some medieval bedroom ri- baldries. THE SHOW-OFF-Large talk...
...second of three times. It will be very, very important, so be ready." Ten years after his dream, he found himself again in Las Palomas, this time as mate of the Pathfinder. "Now," he thought, "it will come true as appointed." He went ashore to see a prizefight, at the ringside heard one Sagrado plotting to kidnap an English girl named Kingsborough who was stay ng at Xicales ; he borrowed a bicycle, rode out to warn her. Kingsborough was not the name he had known her by when he had seen her for the first of the "three times...