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Genevieve. A merry spin from London to Brighton in a 1904 Darracq (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Genevieve. A merry spin from London to Brighton in a 1904 Darracq; with John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...subject of the film is the annual Commemoration Run, from London to Brighton, of the British Veteran Car Club. The heroine is an alizarin-crimson 1904 Darracq named Genevieve, the hero an anonymous cadmium-yellow 1904 Spyker. The Darracq is the proud possession of a young man of moderate means (John Gregson). His wife (Dinah Sheridan) just goes along grimly for the ride. The Spyker belongs to a friend named Ambrose (Kenneth More), a frisky youth whose ambition it is "to combine the pleasures of the London-Brighton run with a really beautiful emotional experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...trip to Aintree this year. Billy Barton's Mr. Bruce led a party of Marylanders over, including Winants, Parkses, Symingtons. Sailing on a special Grand National trip on the 55. Berengaria were Mrs. Payne Whitney, who has two horses entered, Easter Hero and Maguelonne; A. Charles Schwartz, whose Darracq will run; Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, William H. Neilson Voss, Alfred 0. Corbin, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Joseph J. Larkin, Robert H. McCormick. Late betting quotations last week gave the following odds against favorite horses: Billy Barton-14-1; Grakle-14-1; Great Span-14-1; Master Billie-14-1; Maguelonne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses, Horses, Horses | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Beecher's Brook was the next obstacle, a wide stream with a hidden takeoff. Coyote fell here. Freddy Guest's Koko fell into the ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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