New Britain herald., 1924-10-21
DEMPSEY, ACTOR, PLANS QUIET TIME
Probably Will Not Fight Before
 Next May
BY JOE WILLIAMS.

New York, Oct. 21.--If you are one of the elect and belong" in Tin Ear Alley you will be permitted to step into the highly aromatic suite of Jack. Dempsey in the Alamac here ard observe the champion in dress rehearsal for his newest his- trionic knockout, entitled Punches and Patter."
 At the present moment Mir. Demp- sey's mind is as far removed from The business of crunching hostile laws as bread pudding is from the category of French viands.
 MT. Dempsey is to do a double" in vaudeville with an attractive part ncr of the bobbed sex, for which he is to receive, according to Marcus Loew, theatrical magnate, mere matter of s10,0O0 per week, This means he will actually get about S2,500 a week. There is, you will perceive, a vast difference between per and a.
 But that is unimportant. MT. Dempsey is signed for period of many weeks and there is more chance of La Toilette leading three cheers for the Morgans than there is of Mir. Dempsey allowing anything so vulgar and commonplace as a prize fight to interfere with his bookings.
 If MT. Dempsey is seen in the ring growing savagely at a profes- sional enemy before next May at the very earliest, 1t will be due to a widespread antipathy on the part of the customers for the champion as a talented vaudevillian who com pines according to his manager, Jack Kearns, the top-most merits of Jol son, Barrymore and Turpin.
 You may care to listen in on a part of the act.
 Miss Whoosit: How do you like the ring?
 Mir. Dempsey (blushing behind his fluttering ears): Who fold you l hal bought her one?
 This is supposed to knock the boys right back on their ScGch, and is a fair, or unfair example, of what the outlying cities have in store for them this winter besides the usual hardships that accompany a long winter.
 Mir. Dempsey presently sheds his soup and halibus and steps forward in silk fighting trappings. He pro- ceeds to demonstrate the punches with which he knocked out Willard, Brennan, Miske and~f7rpo.
 It is hoped that no roughneck will spoil the performance by demanding that MT. Dempsey demonstrate how he did a backward standing sitting dive out of the ring the night Firpo cracked his on the tonsils.
 As novelty MT. Dempsey will make further demonstrations of his knockouts after the manner of slow motion pictures. Messrs Altrock and Schacht of the Washington champions have been pulling this stuff for years but there may be a few tax dodgers who haven't seen it yet.
 You may be more interested in knowing exactly what the cham pion's fighting plans are. In which event the answer is that he has none. There will be no Dempsey fight of any kind this winter. By May he will be ready to take on either Tommy Gibbons or Jack Re- nault, as warm-up for Labor Day mill with either T1irpo or Wills.
 Promoter Rickard still thinks he can build up Firpo sufficiently to make a return meeting with the champion more desirable than one with Wills. the really logical con- tender.
 For some reason or other the Dempsey-IIearns combine are cold on Wills. They will take him only
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