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Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud, son of the Sultan of Nejd, grew up lean and strong, ignorant of book learning, but a whirlwind in the saddle and a master of desert wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds...
...circus setting. But the characters are mostly sawdust figures in a stock movie melodrama. Fredric March, as the circus manager and clown tightrope-walker, gives an earnest performance that seems to recall a little too strongly his confused Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Terry Moore as his bareback-riding daughter and Cameron Mitchell as a circus handyman in love with her are merely displaced Hollywood juveniles. Gloria Grahame as the circus manager's sultry young wife and Adolphe Menjou as a secret-police officer carry more conviction, but the best performances are bits, e.g., Alex...
Riding only his two specialties-bareback broncs and wild bulls-the self-made cowboy outdid the best from the West, and won world titles in both events...
...five days of the championship competition, 73 competitors roped and rode through the full rodeo schedule. The rough & tumble rides (for eight-second "eternities") on the 1,500-lb. brutish Brahmans* were matched by other wild & woolly events: bareback bronc riding, bulldogging, wild cow milking...
...first mobiles Calder made were wood and wire animals that moved in lifelike fashion when pulled about on strings. He designed them for a toy firm when he was down & out in Paris a quarter of a century ago. Next came a circus, composed of wire figurines that rode bareback, swung from trapezes and burst through hoops when Calder, crouched intently on the floor, released the proper springs. He entertained his friends with it, found it furiously lampooned as "Piggy Logan's Circus" in Thomas Wolfe's novel You Can't Go Home Again...