Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in which Terry and her roommate shout good night to each other, blindfold themselves and attempt to go to sleep amid a roaring, flashing hell of metropolitan night life. Swing Your Lady (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; Milton Shubert, producer). In the training quarters of a large Greek wrestler named Joe Skopapoulos (John Alexander), a horseshoe is found hidden under the Skopapoulos pillow. "What's he keeping that for?" someone asks. "I don't know," says his small manager (Joe Laurie Jr.) wearily, "maybe he's saving up for a horse." The horseshoe later turns...
...year-old son. In the mill, he runs its most efficient furnace crew, to the chagrin of bragging Bill Morgan (William Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers to a benefit fund, through betting on himself. When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill...
Levin of Jamaica, N. Y., defend his dubious right to it against an enraged Mexican named Vincent Lopez, Pacific Coast claim ant. When each had won one fall, Wrestler Lopez charged the referee, had to be restrained by his handlers. Wrestler Levin won the third fall six minutes later...
...Washington, D. C. last week Boston's Wrestler Jack Donovan squeezed Chicago's Mike Romano in a scissors, ground him with a headlock, whirled him in an airplane spin, thumped him on the canvas, let go when the referee patted his back, jumped up to acknowledge the cheers of 10,000 spectators, walked to his dressing room. There he was arrested because, when they tried to revive him after the bout, doctors found Wrestler Romano dead...
...Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings, shaved his beard, sailed back to Russia...