Word: colt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last evening the Cambridge Summer Theatre ushered in the local straw has season with "Tonight or Never," a musical play by Lili Hatvany and musical play by Lili Hatvany and starring Ethel Barrymore Colt...
Opening its fifth season at Brattle Hall, the Cambridge Summer Theatre, hardy perennial of summer playhouses in New England, will present "Tonight or Never," a musical starring Ethel Barrymore Colt, from Monday through next Saturday...
...Miss Colt, the daughter of Ethel Barrymore and neice of the late John Barrymore, is the first of a group of important figures of stage, radio, and Hollywood that the Summer Theatre plans to star...
Experts gave Trainer Ben Jones most of the credit when a 7-to-1 colt named Pensive ran away with the Kentucky Derby. The three-year-old, owned by Warren Wright of Chicago (Calumet Baking Powder), had shown only so-so form in winning three of seven previous starts, wns ailing a week before the Derby. A week after that event Pensive, again with Jockey Conn McCreary up, breezed through to cop the Preakness. Next week Pensive, McCreary and Jones are favored to take the Belmont Stakes and the second Triple Crown* of U.S. horse racing for Ben Jones...
Pensive just missed being scratched. Only a fortnight ago, he had been beaten by a 30-to-1 outsider. But the veteran team of Trainer Ben Jones and Owner Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager...