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...tried hardest to equal their achievement has had the hardest luck. He is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney who has had entries in every Grand National since 1929. Last week he sold one of his candidates for this year's race-a jumper named Slater-to an Englishman. His remaining horse, Dusty Foot, who fell at the third fence last year when he was one of the favorites, may be the first U. S.-owned & ridden horse to win at Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick...
...David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring her to pristine, savage humanity, has paid the account...
...Named after beauteous Miss Leticia Smith, daughter of a onetime British vice consul at Iquitos, by her lovelorn Peruvian admirer, Engineer Charon. When Engineer Charon returned from founding Leticia he was vexed to find that Miss Smith had married an Englishman, removed to Mexico...
Last week Manhattan audiences witnessed the dramatic fruit of this long, three-cornered friendship, Design For Living-"a play about three people who love each other very much." The erstwhile young Englishman, Noel Coward, had written it and was acting in it. So were Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...epic in the sense that the garish extravagances of DeMille were called epics. Its effects are not won by means of pyromaniac mobs that made D. W. Griffith a god in Hollywood. Rather "Cavalcade" is a drama of family patriotism; and because the finer qualities of an Englishman are the finer qualities of an American it commands the emotions and sympathy of the American audience...