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...unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold...
...William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests for the chorus. The picture cost $1,100,000. The result is an extraordinary rigmarole containing everything from chariot races to a torch song by Ruth Etting...
After their football team had beaten Phillips Andover for the third successive year, the boys of Phillips Exeter Academy one Saturday night last month trundled out their Chariot of Victory, went prancing and cavorting through the flare-lit streets of Exeter, N. H. Atop the chariot, a haywagon which three years ago replaced a famed old coach, perched the Exeter team. A bonfire blazed on the playing field and the chapel bell tolled madly until after midnight...
Amid the noise and jostle of the celebration an Exeter junior named Basil Orton, son of a Smith College professor, stumbled and fell directly under the coach's creaky wheels. Six days later he died of internal injuries. Last week Exeter authorities announced that the Chariot of Victory celebration, 20 years old, would probably be stopped...
...turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia swung wide outside her. Three abreast, they drove down the stretch like a cinema chariot race. While the crowd roared at the season's greatest finish, Brown Berry found a little extra in his tough hind legs, won by a hand. Mary Reynolds had enough left to beat Hollyrood Portia by the same margin...