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...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
Stanislaus Zbyszko's reviler was not the American's sports page, but the Sunday supplement American Weekly. One Sunday four years ago it presented a double-page feature headlined "How Science Proves Its Theory of Evolution." Dominating the spread was a huge picture of a gorilla with sloping brow, massive chest, treelike arms and legs. Alongside the gorilla was a picture of Stanislaus Zbyszko in wrestling stance, showing his sloping brow, massive chest, etc., etc. Read the caption: "Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Wrestler, Not Fundamentally Different from the Gorilla in Physique...
Outraged by the implication that he. a graduate of the University of Vienna, represented "the next thing to a gorilla scientists have been looking for," Zbyszko hired Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, sued for $250,000. Defense lawyers insisted that the American's caption meant only that the wrestler was as strong as a gorilla. But Wrestler Zbyszko was able to show that his wife had learned to call him "gorilla" as a term of contempt. The jury found libel, awarded...
...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...