| Georges Carpentier was born in Lens, France. He started his boxing career
at the age of 14 and was successful from the start, having held every championship
of France from flyweight to heavyweight. The outbreak of the World War found
him among the first to enlist and he fought with conspicuous bravery for
four years. He won the Medovillie Militaire, the Croix do Guerre, and the
Italian War Cross. Carpentier is considered the most learned man that ever
stepped into the ring. He is very fond of good literature and the opera.
He sings and plays the piano with professional skill. Since arriving in
America he has started to fulfill his contract with Robertson-Cole for whom
he is making a series of motion pictures, the first of which "The Wander
Man," stamps him as a really fine actor. |