Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George Lewis ("Tex") Rickard, potentate of pugilism; in Miami, Fla., where he was arranging a bout between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling. Jack Dempsey was at his deathbed...
When Paul Block bought the Standard-Union he gave a theatre party, bought out the house for a performance of George White's Scandals, invited everyone from Fisticuffer Dempsey to Aviatrix Earhart. Last week Publicist Gannett gave no party on Broadway to celebrate his purchase of the dignified Eagle...
...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
...skill in making actors out of individuals like Jack Dempsey or even Lenore Ulric is a less rare but more valuable one. When he watched Lenore Ulric display her manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous...
...going to fight again, Jack?" reporters asked him. "No," said Dempsey, as usual. Later he admitted that he might fight famed Paulino Uzcudun next June, for a guarantee...