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Less widely known is the early history of Primo Carnera. Born in Sequal, near Venice, oldest son of a mosaic worker, he quickly outgrew an apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager...
...plot, and with the aid of an excellent cast the characters sustain the story and give it a tense and stimulating vitality. Mr. Huston is more than excellent; one feels, as depth after depth of his characterization unrolls, that his conduct in each successive scene is the logical sequal to what he has done and said before. John Irwin, as the son ignorant of the ways of the world, much more so of the ways of carnival dancers manages to be unsophisticated without being simple. Eleanor Williams, as the girl Nifty cast off, and Rhea Marting as the instrument...