Zones, Joe : probably, Joe Gans (1874-1910), a Negro boxer known as “Old Master”.
... choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for an Academy Award four times and won for his direction of Cabaret . All that Jazz tells the story of a choreographer and movie director, Joe Gideon, who has led the life many well-known show business people lead, or are supposed to lead, with the relationships, the pills, drinks and drugs, the love, hate and indifference, and the ups and... beautiful, mysterious lady-in-white with whom he can be totally spontaneous and sincere. A loose and fast life like his leads slowly but surely to heart problems and the inevitable attack. Still Joe Gideon cannot manage the discipline to bring some order to his life, although he knows full well that his condition is serious. Actually the problem and fear of death obsess him, for he cannot stop viewing... three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is …” She saw this intermediate zone as “a huge ship, as large as a city, which was a symbolic representation of the place where this work is going on.” On board of this ship were people ...
... is so written as to give only the grey precise surface facts, nothing more. All propensity to make me figure in the big Barnum circus of journalistic "features" along with or in competition with Joe Zones, the prize-fighter, Douglas Fairbanks, H. G. Wells, King George and Queen Mary, Haile Selassie, Hobbs, Hitler, Jack the Ripper (or any modern substitute of his) and Mussolini should be strictly banished ...
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