Showman (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
00087
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Chapter III YOU HEAR ON ALL SIDES THESE DAYS THAT THE BIG GATE at the Louis-Schmeling fight was a sign the depression is over. I wouldn't know about that. I've seen too many depressions, both Class A and Class B, to get brash about them. But I do know that so huge a sum being paid in at the turnstiles for any boxing-match would have been impossible without the contributions of two figures of my generation. One was the Marquis of Queensberry, father of the revised code of rules, which took the undue brutality out of boxing. The other was "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the pugilist who first sold boxing to the general public. I had nothing to do with the drawing up of the Queensberry rules, which are still the backbone of modern boxing. But I was Jim Corbett's manager before and during his greatest glory, so I know something about how he brought boxing out of the alley and into the royal suite. Fighters had been plenty popular before he arrived. Nobody was ever idolized the way the sporting public, particularly the Irish, idolized John L. Sullivan. But Corbett's handsome face, his wit, urban 77