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...pronounced it hale, it seemed improbable that he would be a match for a champion who weighed 50 Ib. more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell with awesome health when he clambered into his corner of the ring at the Madison Square Garden bowl in Long Island City. When the bell rang for the first round, he lumbered earnestly out of his corner and pushed his left fist inquisitively into Baer's grinning face...
...gives the part a freshness which, we four, was not present in the original script. And Thomas Ratcliffe, as a crusty man of affairs, and then a model barrister, showed a talent out of proportion to the minor parts in which he was cast. John Cromwell, as "the Drunk Swell" gives a most capable performance...
...quarantine, $6,000,000; for the Alaska Road Commission, $1,596,000; for surveying the U. S.-Mexican border, $4,734,500. In other years, these and such expenditures as PWA made for the lighthouse service, immigration service, public health service, Army and Navy would have gone to swell the regular budget, which President Roosevelt is at great pains to keep within tight bounds...
...told youse I used to be a fighter, that's part of my hidden past. Yeah, it's true. I was getting along swell until my first fight when I found out my nose get in the way. I was going to walk out of the ring when the guy (jeez but he was a tough mug) popped me right in da puss. I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a battler...
...soon as the play was chosen the Harvard and Radcliffe actors who had been retained Monday were assigned to the different roles. All the parts are now filled with the exception of a few minor bits. The cast follows: John, Allan L. Steinberg '35;--Drunk Swell, John Cromwell '36; Leonard the Learned, Arthur Szathmary '37; Bernard the Brave, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Percy the Prosperous, Robert L. McKee '37; Egbert the Eccentric, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37; Lewis the Loving, James W. Tower '35; Albert the Acquisitive, John Michael '35; Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene...