Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume XI, Number 18, 9 September 1922 — Jess Willard Comes to the Savoy Next Week [ARTICLE]

Jess Willard Comes to the Savoy Next Week

Jess Willard, former heavyweight champion pugilist of the world, is to be the big feature of the Pantages vaudeville program that comes to the Savoy theater the week beginning next Monday afternoon. More than usual interest is likely to attach to the appearance of the conqueror of Jack Johnson because of the fact that for some time he has been training steadily in an effort to get himself back into prime condition and secure another bout with Jack Dempsey in an effort to regain his lost laurels. Jess, at the start of his training, weighed in the neighborhood of 280 pounds, and is now said to tip the beam in the vicinity of 235 pounds, indicating that he has made considerable progress in his conditioning Jess next week will give a short talk on his ambitions, following this with a couple of brief bouts in which his sparring partners will appear as his opponents. The regular vaudeville feature of the new bill will be the Neapolitan Six, an organization of Italian singers and instrumentalists. The members of this sextet are said to be finished singers and musicians, giving a program of vocal and instrumental selections that comes as a distinct treat. Frank Yeomans is a monologist who has a host of friends among vaudeville patrons throughout the entire country. Frank is always to be depended upon to hand out a bunch of lively and original chatter and to have his audience indulging in the heartiest sort of laughter every moment of the time he is on the stage. Rated as one of the most clever ventriloquial teams that has ever appeared in vaudeville, Prather and Wilma are expected to score the biggest kind of a hit next week. Comedy abounds in their turn and the manner in which they manipulate their “dummies” is said to fairly convulse. The Crane Sisters are a pair of pretty, young women who astonish and provide not a few thrills when they engage in a routine of daring aerial stunts. In addition to the vaudeville portion of the program there will be a Harold Lloyd motion-picture comedy.