Ring Lardner was born on March 6, 1885 in Niles, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The New Klondike (1926), The Cowboy Quarterback (1939) and Fast Company (1929). He was married to Ellis Abbott. He died on September 27, 1933 in Easthampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
[about Georges Carpentier] He registers the most frightful agony in the ring. The only thing I have seen to match this phase of his art was John Barrymore's reaction to amputation as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1930).
[parodying one of Cole Porter's most popular songs] Night and day, under the fleece of me, there's an oh, such a flaming furneth burneth the grease of me.