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Sharkey's best fight was a ten-round, uphill, slugging match with George Godfrey, giant Californian negro. Godfrey's immense size and his reputation for viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...
...lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose and a cut in his lower lip, fought back with courage. He won the ninth round...
...Astaire), weds the tenor (Paul Gregory). Most risible part of the program is supplied by the Astaires when they cavort in front of a smalltown band. And at one point Eddie Foy Jr., tipsy in Paris, can be heard singing a few bars of a song with lyrics by Ring Lardner...
...successes he came back last week depressed, lonely. In Bayreuth he was deeply affected by the death of Siegfried Wagner. After his own Philharmonic, the Bayreuth Orchestra was a constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable Signora Toscanini lost her wedding ring, the next day broke her leg which has been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla (his name for his wife, who always calls him "Tosca"), without his pretty daughters Wanda and Wally, without his pet griffon Picciu...
...lines as Shakespere wrote them indicate that he intended Shylock to be a mixture of good and evil. At one moment you laugh at his tears for his daughter and his ducats, but the sincere lament that follows immediately after for the loss of Leah's ring certainly arouses anything but scorn. Again, when Bassanio and Antoncate comedy, and Shylock a wretch who gets his just deserts, but he is not a stage villain of Gothic blackness. Instead, Mr. Moscovitz shows a fusion of contradictory emotions: gile and hate mixed with love and sincerety, a true Shakesperean character...