Hollywood Fight

Hollywood showed the world last week how to stage a prize fight. Tom Gallery, onetime cinemactor and onetime husband of ZaSu Pitts, promoted it. Walter Winchell and Gene Fowler reported it. It was watched by Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power & Sonja Henie, Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. It caused Constance Bennett to screech and Darryl Zanuck to wear his Tyrolean hat. Ringside seats at Wrigley Field cost $100.* It was enhanced by an airplane with a streamer advertising Kid Galahad (TIME, May 31).

Principals in the fight were Hollywood's Bob Nestell, whose latest pugilistic accomplishment was a bit part in Kid Galahad, and New York's Bob Pastor, who last winter avoided being knocked out by Joe Louis by running away for ten rounds. Pastor's reward for knocking Nestell down twice, winning easily in ten rounds: an offer of a screen contract.

*At Wrigley Field, President David P. Fleming of the Los Angeles Angels last week installed an innovation to make their baseball games more attractive: a clubhouse section behind third base where, for 25'' each, customers can sit at 40 tables, eat and drink in comfort while watching games.

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