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...Swamp. With more land than any other man in Paraguay and with more cattle than he can count (about 80,000, he guesses), Georgie Lohman had made a Texas ranch boy's dream come true 5,000 miles from home. In 1912, when Fight Promoter Tex Rickard advertised that he needed cowhands for a Paraguayan ranching venture, young Lohman went south. Rickard soon quit but Lohman, with a $1,000 stake from Rickard, stayed. He bought 600 head of cattle and 50,000 acres, and started ranching at Red Wells, no miles west of Concepci...
Where's Charley? (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; produced by Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard) sets to music that old piece of nonsense with nine lives, Charley's Aunt. The result is not happy, less because the 55-year-old farce is dead than because the new procedure is deadening...
...Manly Art. Promoter Tex Rickard, the Barnum of boxing, came on the scene just when the Garden's owners were getting ready to raze it. They were so impressed by his money-making shows that, when the Garden was torn down, they raised $5,000,000 to build a new & bigger one on Eighth Avenue, later listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Rickard's death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever...
Last year, Kilpatrick boosted the gate to $7,800,000, eclipsing Rickard's alltime record ($7,600,000 in 1927) and turned in a net profit of $1,200,000. Said he: "I think business is good enough to support two Gardens. When the new one is ready, we'll keep the old one going...