Word: zbyszko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver-go from Germany to the U. S., where the thief tries to prearrange Polikai's match for the championship and to mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek Zbyszko, who also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar to that of Flesh. However, when Edmund Goulcling (who directed Grand...
...There are some 19 shots of real sporting events at Manhattan's famed arena (which does not resemble a garden and is about two miles from Madison Square). An exact replica of the Garden marquee was made in Hollywood and reappears constantly. The faces of Jack Johnson, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul...
...third group, specializing in wrestlers of more advanced age like Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Joe Stecher, the Zbyszko Brothers, John Pesek, is operated on the Pacific Coast by Billy Sandow, onetime circus strongman. Its champion, until recently, was Strangler Lewis, who last winter became an independent performer and engaged in a match against Champion De Glane in which he was disqualified for biting...
Sued for Divorce. Wladek Zbyszko Cyganiewicz, onetime (1919) world's heavyweight wrestling champion; by Vila Villi, onetime member of Earl Carroll's Vanities. Said she: "He had a playful habit of twisting my arms around behind my back...
Last week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...